Orbitoides (foram)

Foraminifera - Orbitoidacea - Orbitoididae

Parent taxon: Orbitoidinae according to A. R. Loeblich and H. Tappan 1984

See also Cushman 1927 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxon: Postomphalocyclus

Subtaxa: Orbitoides apiculata Orbitoides apiculatus Orbitoides gruenbachensis Orbitoides media

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Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal omnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Indonesia (2 collections)

• Eocene of Belize (1), United States (3: Florida, Georgia)

• Paleocene to Oligocene of Belize (3)

• Paleocene of China (3), Slovakia (5), United States (1: California)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Belize (1)

• Cretaceous of Bulgaria (2), Croatia (2), Egypt (1), France (3), Greece (2), Italy (11), the Netherlands (2), Oman (1), Pakistan (1), Portugal (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Somalia (1), Spain (6), Turkey (5), the United Arab Emirates (1)

Total: 59 collections including 71 occurrences

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