Operculina (foram)

Foraminifera - Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae

Parent taxon: Nummulitidae according to S. J. Beavington-Penney and A. Racey 2004

See also Cushman 1927, Sepkoski 2002 and Squires and Demetrion 1992

Sister taxa: Arnaudiella, Assilina, Cycloclypeus, Dictyoconos, Gaziryina, Heteroclypeus, Heterostegina, Nummulitella, Nummulites, Nummulostegina, Operculinella, Palaeonummulites, Planostegina, Ranikothalia, Spiroclypeus

Subtaxa: Operculina canalifera Operculina pacifica

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Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of India (2 collections), Indian Ocean (24), Mayotte (2), New Caledonia (1), the Seychelles (1), South Pacific (7)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Comoros (1)

• Pliocene of Pakistan (1), South Africa (1)

• Miocene of Australia (1), Cyprus (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Haiti (1), India (2), Indian Ocean (18), Indonesia (5), Israel (1), Japan (2), Libya (1), Malaysia (2), the Marshall Islands (1), Papua New Guinea (2), Somalia (3), Sri Lanka (1), Taiwan (1), Tanzania (2), Türkiye (1)

• Oligocene of France (1), India (1), Indonesia (1), Iran (3), Italy (12), Libya (1), Malta (4), Pakistan (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Somalia (2), Spain (8), Türkiye (1)

• Eocene of Benin (1), China (1), Colombia (1), Egypt (5), France (2), Hungary (2), India (6), Iran (1), Italy (1), Libya (4), Maldives (6), Mexico (1), Pakistan (1), South Africa (1), Spain (4), Tonga (1), United States (2: Louisiana, Oregon)

• Paleocene to Oligocene of Belize (1)

• Paleocene to Eocene of India (1), Iraq (3), Türkiye (1)

• Paleocene of China (2), India (6), Iraq (7), Libya (1), Niger (1), Pakistan (2), Slovakia (12), Togo (1)

• Cretaceous of Switzerland (2)

Total: 203 collections including 220 occurrences

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