Foraminifera - Ataxophragmiacea
Parent taxon: Textulariina according to A. R. Loeblich and H. Tappan 1984
Sister taxa: Ammodiscoidea, Astrorhizacea, Astrorhizidae, Atotaxophragmiacea, Chrysalidinoidea, Coscinophragmatacea, Coscinophragmatidae, Cuneolinidae, Dictyopsellidae, Dicyclinidae, Hippocrepinacea, Hippocrepinidae, Hormosinacea, Hyperamminacea, Komokiacea, Lituolacea, Loftusiacea, Nezzazatidae, Olgiidae, Orbitolinacea, Orbitopsellidae, Prolixoplectidae, Pseudogaudryinidae, Rzehakinacea, Semivulvulina, Textulariacea, Textulariina articulata, Tritaxiidae, Trochamminacea, Verneuilinacea
Subtaxa: Globotextulariidae
Ecology: stationary infaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Canada (1: Nova Scotia collection)
• Eocene of Canada (1: Nova Scotia), India (1), Spain (3)
• Paleocene of Spain (1), Ukraine (1)
• Cretaceous of Canada (3: Alberta), France (2), Italy (2), Oman (1), Romania (3), Tunisia (4), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (5)
• Jurassic of Germany (1), Poland (1), Saudi Arabia (53)
Total: 85 collections including 122 occurrences