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:

• Quaternary of Australia (4 collections), France (4), French Polynesia (1), Greece (2), India (1), Jordan (2), Maldives (1), the Marshall Islands (3), Mauritius (2), Mayotte (3), New Caledonia (2), Palau (1), the Seychelles (2), 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), Australia (1), Austria (2), Cuba (2), Cyprus (1), Haiti (1), India (7), Indonesia (4), Iran (1), Israel (1), Libya (1), Malaysia (1), the Marshall Islands (1), Somalia (2), Sri Lanka (4), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Turkey (1), United States (2: Florida, Puerto Rico)

• Oligocene of Haiti (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), Turkey (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), Turkey (16)

• Triassic of Italy (2), Turkey (1)

Total: 274 collections including 395 occurrences

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