Family Amphisteginidae Cushman 1927 (foram)

Foraminifera - Asterigerinacea - Amphisteginidae

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

See also Beavington-Penney and Racey 2004, Cushman 1927 and Wienrich 1997

Sister taxa: Asterigerinidae, Epistomariidae

Subtaxa: Amphistegina

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Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Egypt (5), French Polynesia (1), India (1), Japan (1), Jordan (2), the Marshall Islands (2), Mauritius (2), Mayotte (5), New Caledonia (1), Palau (1), Panama (1), Sao Tome and Principe (1), Saudi Arabia (3), the Seychelles (1), Taiwan (1), United States (6: Florida, Hawaii)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Comoros (1)

• Pliocene of Antigua and Barbuda (1), Costa Rica (1), Egypt (7), Italy (3), Panama (1), United States (1: South Carolina)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), Austria (7), Cape Verde (1), Cuba (1), Cyprus (3), Egypt (2), France (9), Indonesia (4), Iran (4), Israel (1), Italy (11), Malaysia (2), Morocco (1), New Zealand (2), Poland (4), Romania (3), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (1), Spain (1), Tanzania (1), Turkey (7), United States (1: Florida)

• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (3), China (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (11), Malta (8), New Zealand (1), Puerto Rico (1), Spain (4), United States (1: Florida)

• Eocene of Costa Rica (1), Iran (1), Maldives (1), Mexico (2), Romania (2), Spain (1), Tonga (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (1: Washington)

Total: 161 collections including 168 occurrences

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