Foraminifera - Lituolida - Lituolidae
Parent taxon: Lituolidea according to A. Bertels 1964
See also Cushman 1911, Cushman 1927, Dorreen 1948, Loeblich and Tappan 1984, Morlotti 1988 and Neagu and Cirnaru 2004
Sister taxa: Ammoastutinae, Ammomarginulina, Ammomarginulininae, Bdelloidina, Cyclammina, Haddonia, Haplophragmiinae, Lituola, Lituosepta, Orbitopsella, Placopsilininae, Recurvoidella, Textulariidae
Subtaxa: Duotaxis Eggerellina Heterostomella Spiroplectammininae Tritaxilina Uvigerinammina Valvulininae Verneuilininae
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal omnivore
Distribution:
• NN21 of Indian Ocean (2 collections), North Pacific (14), South Pacific (7)
• Quaternary of Australia (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Indian Ocean (22), Italy (1), North Atlantic (15), North Pacific (13), South Pacific (9), Taiwan (1)
• NN16 of Indian Ocean (9), South Pacific (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of North Pacific (2), South Pacific (1)
• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (12), Italy (1), North Pacific (9), South Pacific (3)
• NN12 of Indian Ocean (2), South Pacific (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), North Pacific (2)
• Miocene of Australia (2), India (1), Indian Ocean (37), New Zealand (2), North Atlantic (15), North Pacific (67), South Pacific (9), United States (3: California, Florida)
• Neogene of Taiwan (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Greece (4), North Atlantic (6), North Pacific (3), South Pacific (1)
• Oligocene of Indian Ocean (1), New Zealand (1), North Atlantic (33), North Pacific (40), Puerto Rico (1), South Pacific (4), Taiwan (13), United States (2: California)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Indian Ocean (1), North Pacific (12), South Pacific (1)
• Eocene of Hungary (2), Indian Ocean (3), Iraq (5), Libya (1), North Atlantic (56), North Pacific (14), South Africa (1), South Pacific (8), Spain (6), Taiwan (13), Tonga (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (1: Alaska)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Indian Ocean (3), North Atlantic (3)
• Paleocene of China (1), Croatia (1), Egypt (2), French Guiana (13), Greece (3), Indian Ocean (1), Iraq (11), Italy (2), Libya (1), North Atlantic (15), Oman (6), Pakistan (1), Slovakia (2), Slovenia (1), South Pacific (7), Spain (1), Suriname (2), Ukraine (4)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (2), North Atlantic (1)
• Cretaceous of Austria (5), Canada (29: Alberta, British Columbia), Chile (5), Croatia (1), Egypt (11), France (7), Germany (8), Indian Ocean (34), New Zealand (2), North Atlantic (13), North Pacific (7), Oman (1), Poland (1), Romania (6), the Russian Federation (16), South Africa (22), South Pacific (5), Tanzania (4), Tunisia (44), Türkiye (32), Ukraine (5), the United Kingdom (5), United States (9: Texas)
• Jurassic of Austria (2), Croatia (2), Egypt (2), France (1), Germany (1), Italy (2), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (4), Slovenia (3), Spain (42), Türkiye (15)
• Triassic of Austria (2), China (24), Germany (1), Hungary (2), India (1), Indian Ocean (3), Indonesia (2), Italy (1), Japan (1), Papua New Guinea (1), Türkiye (9)
• Permian of Italy (1), Lithuania (4), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 992 collections including 1234 occurrences