Foraminifera - Lituolida - Lituolidae
Parent taxon: Lituolidea according to A. Bertels 1964
See also Cushman 1911, Cushman 1927, Dorreen 1948, Loeblich and Tappan 1984, Morlotti 1988 and Neagu and Cirnaru 2004
Sister taxa: Ammoastutinae, Ammomarginulina, Ammomarginulininae, Bdelloidina, Cyclammina, Haddonia, Haplophragmiinae, Lituola, Lituosepta, Orbitopsella, Placopsilininae, Recurvoidella, Textulariidae
Subtaxa: Duotaxis Eggerellina Heterostomella Spiroplectammininae Tritaxilina Uvigerinammina Valvulininae Verneuilininae
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Egypt (1), France (1), Italy (1), Taiwan (1)
• Pliocene of Italy (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1)
• Neogene of Taiwan (1)
• Miocene of Australia (2), India (1), New Zealand (2), United States (3: California, Florida)
• Oligocene of Canada (1: Nova Scotia), New Zealand (1), Puerto Rico (1), Taiwan (13), United States (2: California)
• Eocene of Canada (1: Nova Scotia), Hungary (2), Iraq (5), Libya (1), South Africa (1), Spain (6), Taiwan (13), Tonga (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (2: Alaska, Washington)
• Paleocene of China (1), Croatia (1), French Guiana (13), Iraq (11), Italy (2), Libya (1), Oman (6), Pakistan (1), Slovakia (2), Slovenia (1), Spain (1), Suriname (2), Ukraine (4)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (2)
• Cretaceous of Austria (5), Canada (29: Alberta, British Columbia), Chile (5), Croatia (1), Egypt (3), France (7), Germany (8), New Zealand (2), Oman (1), Poland (1), Romania (6), the Russian Federation (16), South Africa (22), Tanzania (4), Tunisia (44), Turkey (32), Ukraine (5), the United Kingdom (5), United States (9: Texas)
• Jurassic of Austria (2), Croatia (2), Egypt (2), France (1), Germany (1), Italy (2), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (4), Slovenia (3), Spain (42), Turkey (15)
• Triassic of Australia (3), Austria (2), China (24), Hungary (2), India (1), Indonesia (2), Italy (1), Japan (1), Papua New Guinea (1), Turkey (9)
• Permian of Italy (1), Lithuania (4), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 452 collections including 604 occurrences