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:
• Quaternary of Argentina (2 collections), Australia (2), Canada (14: Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), Ecuador (1), Egypt (3), France (4), Greece (2), Iceland (1), India (3), Italy (6), Mauritius (1), Mayotte (4), Panama (1), Poland (3), the Seychelles (1), Suriname (3), Sweden (1), United States (17: Alaska, Florida, Maryland, New York, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: North Carolina)
• Pliocene of Australia (1), Egypt (10), Greece (1), Italy (2), Japan (2), New Zealand (1), Panama (1), South Africa (2), Taiwan (1), United States (3: Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of South Africa (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (3), Australia (2), Austria (7), Cuba (1), Cyprus (3), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (63), India (6), Indonesia (3), Iran (3), Israel (1), Italy (13), Kazakhstan (2), Kenya (1), Libya (2), Malaysia (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (3), Panama (2), Poland (1), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (4), Spain (1), Ukraine (1), United States (5: California, Florida, Maryland, Mississippi)
• Oligocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), Indonesia (1), Japan (1), North Atlantic (3), Oman (1), United States (1: Louisiana)
• Eocene of Belgium (1), Iran (1), Japan (1), Libya (3), Mexico (1), Namibia (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (4: California, Florida, Louisiana/Texas, Washington)
• Paleocene of Slovakia (1)
Total: 251 collections including 432 occurrences