Foraminifera - Rotalioidea - Elphidiidae
Parent taxon: Elphidiinae according to A. R. Loeblich and H. Tappan 1984
See also Asano 1949, Cushman 1927, Dorreen 1948, Gibson 1983, Margerel 2012, Sepkoski 2002 and Wienrich 1997
Sister taxa: Cribroelphidium, Porosononion, Rolshausenia
Subtaxa: Elphidium advenum Elphidium asagaiense Elphidium californicum Elphidium discoidale Elphidium ingressans Elphidium lanieri Elphidium latispatium Elphidium latispatium pontium Elphidium margaritaceum Elphidium neocrespinae Elphidium nitidium Elphidium oceanicum Elphidium omotoensis Elphidium sagrum Elphidium simplex Elphidium yumotoense
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal omnivore
Distribution:
• NN21 of Indian Ocean (4 collections), North Pacific (3), South Pacific (1)
• G. truncatulinoides PRSZ of Indian Ocean (1)
• Quaternary of Argentina (2), Australia (2), Canada (11: Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), Ecuador (1), Egypt (3), France (4), Greece (2), Iceland (1), India (3), Indian Ocean (106), Italy (5), Mauritius (1), Mayotte (4), North Atlantic (54), North Pacific (464), Panama (1), Poland (3), the Seychelles (1), South Pacific (123), Southern Ocean (1), Suriname (3), Sweden (1), United States (17: Alaska, Florida, Maryland, New York, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indian Ocean (2), North Atlantic (1), North Pacific (1), South Pacific (4), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Pliocene of Australia (1), Egypt (10), Greece (1), Indian Ocean (21), Italy (2), Japan (2), New Zealand (1), North Atlantic (15), North Pacific (10), Panama (1), South Africa (2), South Pacific (58), Southern Ocean (2), Taiwan (1), United States (3: Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• NN12 of Indian Ocean (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of North Atlantic (1), South Africa (1), South Pacific (3)
• Miocene of Algeria (3), Australia (2), Austria (7), Cuba (1), Cyprus (3), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (63), India (6), Indian Ocean (36), Indonesia (1), Iran (3), Israel (1), Italy (13), Kazakhstan (2), Kenya (1), Libya (2), Malaysia (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (3), North Atlantic (9), Panama (2), Poland (1), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (4), South Pacific (6), Southern Ocean (5), Spain (1), United States (5: California, Florida, Maryland, Mississippi)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Indian Ocean (1)
• Oligocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), Indian Ocean (1), Indonesia (1), Japan (1), North Atlantic (3), Oman (1), United States (1: Louisiana)
• Eocene of Belgium (1), Indian Ocean (4), Iran (1), Japan (1), Libya (3), Mexico (1), Namibia (1), South Pacific (4), Trinidad and Tobago (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (4: California, Florida, Louisiana/Texas, Washington)
• Cenozoic of Indian Ocean (1)
Total: 1186 collections including 1547 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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