Globothalamea - Loftusiida - Acervulinidae
Parent taxon: Loftusoidea according to E. Robinson and K. J. Cunningham 2022
See also Loeblich and Tappan 1984, Margerel 2012 and Plaziat and Perrin 1992
Sister taxon: Spirocyclinidae
Subtaxa: Aberisphaera Acervulina Discogypsina Globogypsinoides Gypsina Planogypsina Sphaerogypsina
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Barbados (2 collections), Brazil (1), France (4), French Polynesia (1), Greece (2), Italy (2), Japan (4), Jordan (1), Mayotte (2), New Caledonia (2), Saudi Arabia (1), United States (4: Florida, Hawaii)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Saudi Arabia (1)
• Pliocene of Antigua and Barbuda (1), Egypt (3), Italy (2), New Zealand (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), Jamaica (1)
• Miocene of Australia (2), Austria (3), Cape Verde (1), Cuba (1), Cyprus (2), Egypt (5), France (5), India (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (6), Malaysia (2), Romania (2), Spain (2), Turkey (1)
• Oligocene of Indonesia (1), Iran (2), Italy (5), Spain (1)
• Eocene of Greece (1), Hungary (2), Iran (1), Iraq (7), Italy (6), Maldives (3), Romania (3), Spain (5), Tonga (1), United States (5: Florida)
• Paleocene to Eocene of India (13), Iraq (7)
• Paleocene of China (5), Croatia (1), Iran (1), Italy (2), Turkey (1)
• Cretaceous of Austria (2), Spain (1)
• Jurassic of the Czech Republic (1)
Total: 147 collections including 169 occurrences