Superfamily Loftusiacea Brady 1884 (foram)

Foraminifera - Loftusiacea

Parent taxon: Textulariina according to A. R. Loeblich and H. Tappan 1984

Sister taxa: Ammodiscoidea, Astrorhizacea, Astrorhizidae, Ataxophragmiacea, Atotaxophragmiacea, Chrysalidinoidea, Coscinophragmatacea, Coscinophragmatidae, Cuneolinidae, Dictyopsellidae, Dicyclinidae, Hippocrepinacea, Hippocrepinidae, Hormosinacea, Hyperamminacea, Komokiacea, Lituolacea, Nezzazatidae, Olgiidae, Orbitolinacea, Orbitopsellidae, Prolixoplectidae, Pseudogaudryinidae, Rzehakinacea, Semivulvulina, Textulariacea, Textulariina articulata, Tritaxiidae, Trochamminacea, Verneuilinacea

Subtaxa: Cyclamminidae Hottingeritidae Mesoendothyridae

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Ecology: stationary infaunal detritivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of Spain (8 collections)

• Paleocene of Spain (2)

• Cretaceous of Albania (2), Canada (1: Nova Scotia), China (2), Colombia (1), Croatia (12), Egypt (2), Ethiopia (1), France (1), Greece (5), Iran (1), Italy (14), Mexico (1), Morocco (3), Portugal (89), Romania (8), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (6), Turkey (8), Ukraine (1)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Austria (2)

• Jurassic of Algeria (1), Austria (2), Bulgaria (1), Croatia (1), France (2), Germany (1), Indonesia (2), Italy (1), Lebanon (4), Mexico (1), Poland (5), Portugal (25), Romania (2), Saudi Arabia (58), Slovenia (7), Somalia (2), Spain (1), Switzerland (1), Turkey (2), Ukraine (1)

Total: 291 collections including 358 occurrences

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