Family Valvulinidae Reuss 1860 (foram)

Foraminifera - Textulariacea - Valvulinidae

Parent taxon: Textulariacea according to J.-P. Margerel 2012

See also Cushman 1927, Dorreen 1948, Loeblich and Tappan 1984 and Wienrich 1997

Sister taxon: Valvulamminidae

Subtaxa: Coskinolina Eggerella Lituonella

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Ecology: stationary infaunal detritivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Ireland (7 collections), New Zealand (1)

• Oligocene of United States (1: Florida)

• Eocene of Canada (1: Nova Scotia), Libya (1), Pakistan (1), Somalia (2), Spain (1), United States (5: Florida, Oregon, Washington)

• Paleocene of Slovakia (3)

• Cretaceous of Italy (18), Portugal (6), Ukraine (2)

• Jurassic of Poland (1), Portugal (1)

Total: 51 collections including 55 occurrences

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