Foraminifera - Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
Parent taxon: Nummulitidae according to S. J. Beavington-Penney and A. Racey 2004
See also Cushman 1927, Sepkoski 2002 and Squires and Demetrion 1992
Sister taxa: Arnaudiella, Assilina, Cycloclypeus, Dictyoconos, Heteroclypeus, Heterostegina, Nummulitella, Nummulites, Nummulostegina, Operculinella, Palaeonummulites, Planostegina, Ranikothalia, Spiroclypeus
Subtaxa: Operculina canalifera Operculina pacifica
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of India (2 collections), Mayotte (2), New Caledonia (1), the Seychelles (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Comoros (1)
• Pliocene of Pakistan (1), South Africa (1)
• Miocene of Australia (1), Cyprus (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Haiti (1), India (2), Indonesia (5), Israel (1), Japan (2), Libya (1), Malaysia (2), the Marshall Islands (1), Papua New Guinea (2), Somalia (3), Sri Lanka (1), Taiwan (1), Tanzania (2), Turkey (1)
• Oligocene of France (1), India (1), Indonesia (1), Iran (3), Italy (12), Libya (1), Malta (4), Pakistan (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Somalia (2), Spain (8), Turkey (1)
• Eocene of China (1), Colombia (1), Egypt (5), France (2), Hungary (2), India (6), Iran (1), Italy (1), Libya (4), Maldives (6), Mexico (1), Pakistan (1), South Africa (1), Spain (4), Tonga (1), United States (2: Louisiana, Oregon)
• Paleocene to Oligocene of Belize (1)
• Paleocene to Eocene of India (1), Iraq (3), Turkey (1)
• Paleocene of China (2), India (6), Iraq (7), Libya (1), Niger (1), Pakistan (2), Slovakia (12), Togo (1)
• Cretaceous of Switzerland (2)
Total: 153 collections including 166 occurrences
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