Superfamily Soritacea Ehrenberg 1839 (foram)

Tubothalamea - Miliolida

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

See also Beavington-Penney and Racey 2004 and Loeblich and Tappan 1988

Sister taxa: Alveolinacea, Austrotrillinidae, Baisalinidae, Cornuspiroidea, Fabulariidae, Hoyenella, Inaequalina, Lachlanella, Meandropsinidae, Meandrospiridae, Miliolacea, Rhapydioninidae, Sinoloculina, Soritoidea, Squamulinacea

Subtaxa: Keramosphaeridae Peneroplidae Siphonoferidae Soritidae

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal deposit feeder

Distribution:

• NN21 of Indian Ocean (3 collections)

• G. truncatulinoides PRSZ of North Atlantic (7)

• Quaternary of Australia (4), France (4), French Polynesia (1), Greece (2), India (1), Indian Ocean (6), Jordan (2), Maldives (1), the Marshall Islands (3), Mauritius (2), Mayotte (3), New Caledonia (2), North Atlantic (13), Palau (1), the Seychelles (2), South Pacific (4), United States (5: Florida, Hawaii)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Comoros (1)

• Pliocene of Egypt (6), Greece (1), the Marshall Islands (1), Vanuatu (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Jamaica (1)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), Austria (2), Cuba (2), Cyprus (1), Haiti (1), India (7), Indian Ocean (4), Indonesia (4), Iran (1), Israel (1), Libya (1), Malaysia (1), the Marshall Islands (1), Somalia (2), South Pacific (1), Sri Lanka (4), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Türkiye (1), United States (2: Florida, Puerto Rico)

• Oligocene of the Dominican Republic (1), Iran (2), Italy (2), Malta (8), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (1), Spain (6), United States (1: Florida)

• Eocene of Egypt (1), France (2), Germany (1), Hungary (1), India (5), Iran (4), Iraq (2), Italy (1), Libya (4), Maldives (7), Mexico (1), Oman (1), Pakistan (1), Slovenia (1), Somalia (2), South Africa (1), Spain (8), Türkiye (1), United States (3: Florida)

• Paleocene to Eocene of Bulgaria (1), China (1), India (2), Iraq (13)

• Paleocene of China (2), India (1), Iraq (11), Slovakia (5)

• Cretaceous of Croatia (18), Egypt (2), Italy (44), Lebanon (4), Slovenia (2), Spain (2), Türkiye (16)

• Triassic of Italy (2), Türkiye (1)

Total: 311 collections including 434 occurrences

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