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
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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