Family Hormosinidae Haeckel 1894 (foram)

Foraminifera - Hormosinacea - Hormosinidae

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

See also Gradstein and Kaminski 1997, Loeblich and Tappan 1988 and Margerel 2012

Sister taxa: Aschemocellidae, Cribratinidae, Dusenburyinidae, Telamminidae, Thomasinellidae

Subtaxa: Cuneatinae Hormosininae Nodosininae Proteonina Reophacinae

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Ecology: stationary infaunal detritivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Canada (1: Nunavut collection), France (1)

• Oligocene of the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: California)

• Eocene of Canada (1: Nova Scotia), Pakistan (1), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Washington)

• Paleocene of Croatia (1), Slovakia (2), Spain (1), Ukraine (3)

• Cretaceous of Austria (3), Canada (21: Alberta), Egypt (1), Germany (4), Italy (1), Japan (1), Poland (3), Portugal (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (5), Ukraine (10), United States (3: Oklahoma, Texas)

• Jurassic of Austria (2), Egypt (3), France (2), Germany (43), Italy (1), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (5), Spain (1)

• Triassic of Austria (6), China (25), Germany (1), Greece (1), Hungary (3), Italy (11), Japan (1), Malaysia (1), Papua New Guinea (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (1), Spain (1), Turkey (4), the United Kingdom (1)

• Permian of Australia (5), Italy (1), Lithuania (1), Slovenia (1)

• Virgilian of United States (6: Iowa, Kansas, New Mexico, Texas)

• Desmoinesian of United States (19: Oklahoma)

• Pennsylvanian of United States (1: Texas)

• Carboniferous of Egypt (1), United States (6: Indiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma)

Total: 233 collections including 270 occurrences

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