Foraminifera - Hormosinacea - Hormosinidae
Alternative spelling: Rheophax
Full reference: P. de Montfort. 1808. Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. Les Coquilles dissivalves, multivalves et bivalves 1:lxxxvii-409
Parent taxon: Reophacinae according to A. R. Loeblich and H. Tappan 1984
See also Cushman 1927, Harlton 1933, Kiessling 2003, Loeblich and Tappan 1988, Margerel 2012, Morlotti 1988 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Adelungia, Ammofrondicularia, Hormosinella, Hormosinoides, Leptohalysis, Nodellum, Nodulina, Scherochorella, Subreophax, Turriclavula
Subtaxa: Reophax difflugiformis Reophax nodulosus Reophax ouchitensis Reophax pilulifer
Ecology: stationary infaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (1: Nunavut collection), France (1)
• Oligocene of United States (1: California)
• Eocene of Canada (1: Nova Scotia), Pakistan (1), Spain (1), United States (1: Washington)
• Paleocene of Croatia (1), Slovakia (2), Ukraine (2)
• Cretaceous of Austria (3), Canada (21: Alberta), Egypt (1), Germany (4), Japan (1), Portugal (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (4), Ukraine (7), United States (3: Oklahoma, Texas)
• Jurassic of Austria (2), Egypt (2), France (2), Germany (43), Italy (1), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (5), Spain (1)
• Triassic of Austria (6), China (25), Germany (1), Greece (1), Hungary (3), Italy (11), Japan (1), Malaysia (1), Papua New Guinea (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (1), Spain (1), Turkey (4), the United Kingdom (1)
• Permian of Australia (5), Italy (1), Lithuania (1), Slovenia (1)
• Carboniferous of Egypt (1), United States (32: Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
Total: 218 collections including 245 occurrences
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