Parent taxon: Rotaliina according to A. R. Loeblich and H. Tappan 1984
See also Gibson 1983, Loeblich and Tappan 1961 and Margerel 2012
Sister taxa: Acervulinacea, Annulopatellinacea, Asterigerinacea, Aubignyna, Bolivinacea, Bolivinitacea, Buliminacea, Carterinacea, Cassidulina, Cassidulinacea, Cassidulinidae, Caucasina, Chilostomellacea, Coryphostoma, Delosinacea, Discorbacea, Discorbinellacea, Discorbitura, Eouvigerinacea, Fursenkoinacea, Glabratellacea, Globorotalitidae, Hedbergellacea, Islandiellidae, Lepitorbitoididae, Mississippinidae, Nodosariacea, Nummulitacea, Orbitoidacea, Osangulariidae, Pappina, Planorbulinacea, Pleurostomellidae, Reussellidae, Siphoninacea, Siphoninidae, Spirillinacea, Spiroloxostoma, Turrilinacea
Subtaxa: Calcarinidae Pellatispiridae Rotaliidae
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (2 collections), Australia (3), France (5), Iceland (1), India (2), Italy (9), Japan (1), the Marshall Islands (2), Mauritius (2), Mayotte (4), New Caledonia (2), Palau (1), Panama (1), the Philippines (1), Poland (1), Saudi Arabia (1), the Seychelles (1), Suriname (3), Sweden (1), Taiwan (1), United States (15: Alaska, Florida, Hawaii, Maryland, New York, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Comoros (1)
• Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Egypt (4), Greece (1), Ireland (8), Italy (2), Pakistan (2), Panama (1), South Africa (2), Spain (2), Taiwan (1), United States (2: Mississippi, South Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ireland (1), New Zealand (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (3), Austria (5), Cuba (2), Cyprus (5), Ecuador (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (26), India (6), Indonesia (3), Iran (1), Ireland (16), Italy (4), Kazakhstan (2), Libya (2), Malaysia (1), New Zealand (3), Panama (2), Papua New Guinea (3), Peru (2), Poland (1), Romania (4), Slovakia (2), South Africa (1), Spain (1), United States (3: Florida, Mississippi, Texas)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Indonesia (1)
• Oligocene of Canada (2: British Columbia, Nova Scotia), Indonesia (1), Iran (2), Italy (11), Malta (4), New Zealand (1), Puerto Rico (1), Spain (1), Taiwan (2), Turkey (4), United States (1: Louisiana)
• Eocene of China (1), Hungary (2), India (10), Iran (4), Iraq (6), Italy (2), Libya (6), Maldives (8), Namibia (1), Nigeria (2), Pakistan (2), Peru (1), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (1), Spain (7), Taiwan (1), Tonga (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (5: Alaska, California, Florida, Oregon, Washington), Venezuela (1)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Bulgaria (1), China (1), India (17), Iraq (10), Turkey (2)
• Paleocene of Austria (5), China (8), Croatia (1), Denmark (1), French Guiana (18), India (25), Iran (4), Iraq (77), Italy (1), Libya (2), Pakistan (2), Romania (2), Slovakia (16), Slovenia (5), Spain (4), Suriname (4), Turkey (3)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Austria (2), Canada (1: British Columbia), Egypt (3), France (5), Germany (4), Iran (1), Italy (24), Mexico (3), the Netherlands (1), Poland (1), Slovakia (1), Somalia (1), Spain (4), Tunisia (33), Turkey (13)
• Triassic of Indonesia (1), United States (1: Nevada)
• Ordovician of the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 596 collections including 897 occurrences