Subfamily Polymorphininae Cushman 1927 (foram)

Nodosariata - Polymorphinida - Polymorphinidae

Full reference: J. A. Cushman . 1927. An outline of a reclassification of the foraminifera. Contributions from the Cushman laboratory for foraminiferal research 3(1):1-105

Parent taxon: Polymorphinidae according to A. Missotti 2022

See also Cushman 1927, Cushman and Ozawa 1928, Dorreen 1948 and Mailhe et al. 1967

Sister taxa: Bullopora, Enantiodentalina, Eoguttulina, Falsoguttulininae, Polymorphina, Pseudopolymorphina, Ramulininae, Sigmomorphina

Subtaxa: Dimorphina Globulina Guttulina Pyrulina Sigmoidella

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Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Canada (4: Nunavut, Ontario collections), United States (3: Hawaii, Virginia)

• Pliocene of Australia (1), Greece (1), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (1), Taiwan (1), United States (1: South Carolina)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), Australia (1), Austria (1), Canada (1: Nova Scotia), Germany (59), Kazakhstan (1), New Zealand (1), United States (1: Florida)

• Oligocene of Germany (2), New Zealand (2), North Atlantic (2), United States (1: Louisiana)

• Eocene of Belgium (1), Hungary (2), India (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (12: Louisiana, Louisiana/Texas, Oregon, Texas, Washington)

• Paleocene of French Guiana (3), Slovakia (1), Spain (2), Suriname (7), United States (3: Missouri)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (5)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), France (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (2), the Russian Federation (11), South Africa (31), Tunisia (47), United States (1: Alaska)

• Jurassic of Austria (2), Poland (9), the Russian Federation (3), Switzerland (1)

• Triassic of Papua New Guinea (1)

Total: 238 collections including 371 occurrences

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