Foraminifera - Lituolida - Lituolidae
Parent taxon: Lituolidea according to A. Bertels 1964
See also Al Menoufy and Shreif 2021, Cushman 1927, Dorreen 1948, Gibson 1983, Loeblich and Tappan 1961, Loeblich and Tappan 1984, Margerel 2012 and Morlotti 1988
Sister taxa: Ammoastutinae, Ammomarginulina, Ammomarginulininae, Bdelloidina, Cyclammina, Haddonia, Haplophragmiinae, Lituola, Lituosepta, Orbitopsella, Placopsilininae, Recurvoidella, Verneuilinidae
Subtaxa: Bigenerina Bolivinopsis Haeuslerella Planctostomatinae Septotextularia Siphotextularia Textularia Textulariinae Vulvulina
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal omnivore
Distribution:
• NN21 of Indian Ocean (7 collections), North Pacific (6), South Pacific (15)
• G. truncatulinoides PRSZ of Indian Ocean (6), North Atlantic (2)
• G. ruber PRZ of Indian Ocean (6), North Atlantic (1)
• Quaternary of Egypt (3), Greece (2), India (1), Indian Ocean (79), Italy (5), Jordan (1), Mauritius (1), Mayotte (4), New Caledonia (1), North Atlantic (162), North Pacific (25), the Seychelles (1), South Pacific (100), United States (6: Hawaii, South Carolina, Virginia)
• NN16 of Indian Ocean (6), South Pacific (3)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indian Ocean (6), Italy (1), North Atlantic (3), North Pacific (1), South Pacific (2)
• Pliocene of Chile (1), Egypt (3), Indian Ocean (47), Italy (1), New Zealand (1), North Atlantic (38), North Pacific (10), Pakistan (2), Panama (1), South Africa (2), South Pacific (93), Taiwan (1), United States (1: South Carolina)
• NN12 of Indian Ocean (2), South Pacific (4)
• G. tumida/G. nepenthes CRZ - Atlantic of Indian Ocean (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of South Pacific (4)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Australia (1), Austria (7), Chile (1), Cyprus (5), Ecuador (1), Egypt (11), Germany (61), India (1), Indian Ocean (44), Iran (41), Italy (2), Malaysia (1), the Marshall Islands (1), New Zealand (3), North Atlantic (5), North Pacific (67), Panama (2), Poland (2), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (1), South Pacific (66), Spain (1), United States (5: Florida, Maryland, North Carolina)
• NN1 of South Pacific (2)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Indian Ocean (1), Indonesia (1), North Pacific (6)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), Indian Ocean (1), Iran (56), Italy (1), New Zealand (2), North Pacific (19), South Pacific (7), Taiwan (1)
• Whaingaroan of New Zealand (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Indian Ocean (1), North Pacific (2), South Pacific (3)
• Eocene of Benin (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), Colombia (1), Egypt (6), Hungary (1), India (6), Indian Ocean (1), Italy (2), Libya (1), Namibia (1), Nigeria (1), North Pacific (3), Pakistan (1), Romania (1), South Africa (1), South Pacific (26), Spain (2), Taiwan (1), Tonga (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (4: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Louisiana/Texas)
• Paleocene to Oligocene of Belize (1)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Iraq (2)
• Paleocene of Argentina (2), China (2), Croatia (1), India (1), Iraq (30), Libya (1), North Atlantic (1), Slovakia (12), South Pacific (2), Togo (1), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Tertiary of Indian Ocean (1)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (2)
• Cretaceous of Austria (5), Canada (9: Alberta), Egypt (2), Georgia (1), Germany (5), Greece (3), India (1), Indian Ocean (3), Italy (62), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Portugal (42), Romania (7), Slovenia (5), South Africa (5), South Pacific (1), Spain (1), Tunisia (2), Türkiye (7), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (5), United States (6: Oklahoma, Texas)
• Jurassic of Algeria (1), Austria (6), Bulgaria (1), Canada (1: Yukon), France (3), Germany (6), Italy (1), Morocco (1), the Russian Federation (5), Slovenia (3), Spain (35), Switzerland (1)
• Triassic of Austria (4), China (2), Germany (1), Hungary (2), Italy (5), Oman (1), Papua New Guinea (1), the Russian Federation (1), Türkiye (1)
• Permian of Australia (2), China (2), Lithuania (5), Norway (1), Slovenia (1)
• Carboniferous to Permian of Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1)
• Carboniferous of Austria (1), China (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (38: Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
Total: 1544 collections including 1795 occurrences