Dorothia (foram)

Foraminifera - Lituolida - Lituolidae

Parent taxon: Valvulininae according to A. Bertels 1964

See also Kiessling 2003 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Clavulina, Cribrobulimina, Cribrogoesella, Valvulina

Subtaxa: Dorothia californica Dorothia monmouthensis

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Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of France (1 collection), Italy (1)

• Pliocene of Italy (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1)

• Miocene of New Zealand (2)

• Oligocene of New Zealand (1), United States (1: California)

• Eocene of Spain (3)

• Paleocene of Croatia (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (4)

• Cretaceous of Austria (2), Canada (1: British Columbia), Chile (5), Egypt (1), France (2), Germany (1), New Zealand (2), Poland (1), Romania (1), South Africa (21), Tanzania (4), Tunisia (32), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (5)

• Jurassic of Egypt (1)

Total: 100 collections including 127 occurrences

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