†family Lituotubidae Loeblich and Tappan 1984 (foram)

Foraminifera - Lituolacea - Lituotubidae

Parent taxon: Lituolacea according to A. R. Loeblich and H. Tappan 1988

See also Morlotti 1988

Sister taxa: Ammosphaeroidinidae, Ataxophragmiidae, Discamminidae, Flatschkofelia, Haplophragmoiidae, Hauraniidae, Mayncinidae, Nautiloculinidae, Oxinoxisidae, Placopsilinidae, Sphaeramminidae

Subtaxa: Conglophragmium Paratrochamminoides Plagioraphe Trochamminoides

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Ecology: stationary infaunal detritivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of North Pacific (5 collections)

• Oligocene to Miocene of North Pacific (3)

• Oligocene of North Pacific (11)

• Eocene to Oligocene of North Pacific (2)

• Eocene of India (3), North Pacific (4)

• Paleocene of Ukraine (1)

• Tertiary of Indian Ocean (1)

• Cretaceous of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), Indian Ocean (11), Italy (2), Poland (3), Ukraine (1)

• Triassic of Germany (1)

• Permian of Australia (1)

Total: 50 collections including 55 occurrences

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