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:

• NN21 of Indian Ocean (4 collections), North Atlantic (10)

• G. truncatulinoides PRSZ of North Atlantic (29)

• Quaternary of Australia (1), Egypt (5), French Polynesia (1), India (1), Indian Ocean (80), Japan (1), Jordan (2), the Marshall Islands (2), Mauritius (2), Mayotte (5), New Caledonia (1), North Atlantic (43), Palau (1), Panama (1), Saudi Arabia (3), the Seychelles (1), Taiwan (1), United States (6: Florida, Hawaii)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Comoros (1), Indian Ocean (3)

• Pliocene of Antigua and Barbuda (1), Costa Rica (1), Egypt (7), India (8), Indian Ocean (9), Italy (3), Panama (1), United States (1: South Carolina)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Indian Ocean (1)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), Austria (7), Cape Verde (1), Croatia (18), Cuba (1), Cyprus (3), Egypt (2), France (9), Greece (33), India (13), Indian Ocean (45), Indonesia (4), Iran (33), Israel (1), Italy (11), Libya (1), Malaysia (2), Morocco (1), New Zealand (2), Poland (4), Romania (3), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (1), South Pacific (2), Spain (1), Tanzania (1), Türkiye (7), United States (1: Florida)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Greece (5)

• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (3), China (1), Indonesia (1), Iran (48), Italy (11), Malta (8), New Zealand (1), North Pacific (6), Puerto Rico (1), Spain (33), United States (1: Florida)

• Eocene of Costa Rica (1), Iran (1), Italy (8), Maldives (1), Mexico (2), Romania (2), Spain (1), Tonga (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (1: Washington)

Total: 584 collections including 684 occurrences

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