Foraminifera - Rotalioidea - Elphidiidae
Parent taxon: Elphidiidae according to A. R. Loeblich and H. Tappan 1984
See also Margerel 2012
Sister taxa: Bangiana, Cellanthus, Faujasininae
Subtaxa: Cribroelphidium Elphidium Porosononion Rolshausenia
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (2 collections), Australia (2), Canada (14: Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), Ecuador (1), Egypt (3), France (4), Greece (2), Iceland (1), India (3), Italy (6), Mauritius (1), Mayotte (4), Panama (1), Poland (3), the Seychelles (1), Suriname (3), Sweden (1), United States (17: Alaska, Florida, Maryland, New York, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: North Carolina)
• Pliocene of Australia (1), Egypt (10), Greece (1), Italy (2), Japan (2), New Zealand (1), Panama (1), South Africa (2), Taiwan (1), United States (3: Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of South Africa (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (3), Australia (2), Austria (7), Cuba (1), Cyprus (3), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (63), India (6), Indonesia (1), Iran (3), Israel (1), Italy (13), Kazakhstan (2), Kenya (1), Libya (2), Malaysia (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (3), Panama (2), Poland (1), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (4), Spain (1), United States (5: California, Florida, Maryland, Mississippi)
• Oligocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), Indonesia (1), Japan (1), North Atlantic (3), Oman (1), United States (1: Louisiana)
• Eocene of Belgium (1), Iran (1), Japan (1), Libya (3), Mexico (1), Namibia (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (4: California, Florida, Louisiana/Texas, Washington)
Total: 247 collections including 428 occurrences