Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Discorbidae
Parent taxon: Discorbinae according to A. Bertels 1964
See also Gibson 1983, Margerel 2009, Margerel 2012, Sepkoski 2002 and Wienrich 1997
Sister taxa: Eponides, Hanzawaia, Valvulineria
Subtaxa: Rosalina aguayoi Rosalina floridensis Rosalina globularis Rosalina obtusa Rosalina orientalis Rosalina patagonica Rosalina valvulata
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal herbivore
Distribution:
• NN21 of Indian Ocean (1 collection), South Pacific (7)
• G. truncatulinoides PRSZ of Indian Ocean (3)
• Quaternary of France (4), Iceland (1), Indian Ocean (17), Italy (1), Mayotte (1), North Atlantic (38), Panama (1), South Pacific (25), Suriname (3), United States (3: Alaska, Virginia)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of North Atlantic (3)
• Pliocene of Egypt (1), Greece (1), Indian Ocean (11), Italy (1), North Atlantic (2), Panama (1), United States (2: North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Germany (2), Indian Ocean (3), Italy (1), North Atlantic (2), Panama (2), Peru (1), Poland (1), Southern Ocean (2)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of France (1), India (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1), Suriname (2)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Egypt (1)
Total: 152 collections including 196 occurrences
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