Foraminifera - Loxostomatacea - Loxostomatidae
Full reference: A. R. Loeblich and H. Tappan. 1962. Six new generic names in the Mycetozoida (Trichiidae) and Foraminiferida (Fischerinidae, Buliminidae, Caucasinidae and Pleurostomellidae) and a re-description of Loxostomum (Loxostomidae, new family). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 75:107-113
Parent taxon: Loxostomatacea according to S. Al Menoufy and A. Shreif 2021
See also Loeblich and Tappan 1962
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Aragonia Loxostomum
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of North Pacific (16 collections), South Pacific (30)
• Pliocene of South Pacific (2)
• Miocene of Indian Ocean (1), South Pacific (1)
• Oligocene of North Atlantic (1)
• Eocene of Egypt (1), South Pacific (8), Spain (4)
• Paleocene to Eocene of South Pacific (1)
• Paleocene of Indian Ocean (1), South Pacific (10), Spain (1)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Indian Ocean (1)
• Cretaceous of Indian Ocean (3), North Pacific (1)
Total: 82 collections including 87 occurrences