Foraminifera - Spiroplectamminacea - Spiroplectamminidae
Alternative spelling: Spirolectammina
Full reference: J. A. Cushman . 1927. An outline of a reclassification of the foraminifera. Contributions from the Cushman laboratory for foraminiferal research 3(1):1-105
Parent taxon: Spiroplectamminidae according to E. Morlotti 1988
See also Al Menoufy and Shreif 2021, Bazeen et al. 2024, Bertels 1964, Cushman 1927, Gibson 1983, Sepkoski 2002 and Wienrich 1997
Sister taxa: Spiroplectella, Spiroplectinella, Spirotextularia
Subtaxa: Spiroplectammina biformis Spiroplectammina carinata Spiroplectammina eocenica Spiroplectammina laevis Spiroplectammina paleocenica Spiroplectammina wrighti
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Italy (1 collection), Panama (1)
• Pliocene of Australia (1)
• Miocene of Egypt (3), Germany (66), Panama (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (1), United States (3: California, Maryland, North Carolina)
• Oligocene to Miocene of North Atlantic (1)
• Oligocene of the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: Louisiana)
• Eocene of Belgium (1), Egypt (2), Spain (9), the United Kingdom (1), United States (5: California, Louisiana/Texas)
• Paleocene of Egypt (2), Libya (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (2), Ukraine (2)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (2)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Canada (14: Alberta, British Columbia), Chile (1), Egypt (10), Germany (3), Italy (1), New Zealand (1), Romania (2), South Africa (1), Tanzania (1), Tunisia (41), Ukraine (9), United States (2: Texas)
• Jurassic of Egypt (1)
• Triassic of Canada (1: British Columbia), United States (2: Nevada)
• Permian of Australia (28), Italy (1), Thailand (1)
• Carboniferous of Thailand (2), United States (2: Texas)
Total: 234 collections including 291 occurrences
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