Foraminifera - Rotalioidea - Elphidiidae
Parent taxon: Rotalioidea according to A. Bertels 1964
See also Gibson 1983 and Margerel 2012
Sister taxa: Ammoniidae, Elphidiellidae, Haynesinidae, Notorotaliidae, Orbulinidae
Subtaxa: Bangiana Cellanthus Elphidiinae Faujasininae
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal omnivore
Distribution:
• NN21 of Indian Ocean (4 collections), North Pacific (3), South Pacific (1)
• G. truncatulinoides PRSZ of Indian Ocean (1)
• Quaternary of Argentina (2), Australia (2), Canada (11: Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), Ecuador (1), Egypt (3), France (4), Greece (2), Iceland (1), India (3), Indian Ocean (106), Italy (6), Mauritius (1), Mayotte (4), North Atlantic (62), North Pacific (464), Panama (1), Poland (3), the Seychelles (1), South Pacific (123), Southern Ocean (1), Suriname (3), Sweden (1), United States (17: Alaska, Florida, Maryland, New York, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indian Ocean (2), North Atlantic (1), North Pacific (1), South Pacific (4), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Pliocene of Australia (1), Egypt (10), Greece (1), India (9), Indian Ocean (21), Italy (2), Japan (2), New Zealand (1), North Atlantic (16), North Pacific (10), Panama (1), South Africa (2), South Pacific (58), Southern Ocean (2), Taiwan (1), United States (3: Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• NN12 of Indian Ocean (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of North Atlantic (1), South Africa (1), South Pacific (3)
• Miocene of Algeria (3), Australia (2), Austria (7), Croatia (9), Cuba (1), Cyprus (3), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (63), India (6), Indian Ocean (36), Indonesia (3), Iran (3), Israel (1), Italy (13), Kazakhstan (2), Kenya (1), Libya (2), Malaysia (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (3), North Atlantic (9), Panama (2), Poland (1), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (4), South Pacific (6), Southern Ocean (9), Spain (1), Ukraine (1), United States (5: California, Florida, Maryland, Mississippi)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Indian Ocean (1)
• Oligocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), Indian Ocean (1), Indonesia (1), Iran (17), Japan (1), North Atlantic (3), Oman (1), United States (1: Louisiana)
• Eocene of Belgium (1), Indian Ocean (4), Iran (1), Japan (1), Libya (3), Mexico (1), Namibia (1), South Pacific (4), Trinidad and Tobago (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (4: California, Florida, Louisiana/Texas, Washington)
• Cenozoic of Indian Ocean (1)
• Paleocene of Slovakia (1)
Total: 1239 collections including 1628 occurrences