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Miliolidae

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Description

Miliolidae is a family in the superfamily Miliolacea of miliolid foraminifera.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miliolidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	7789454	https://www.gbif.org/species/7789454
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	81704	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=81704

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Chromista : Foraminifera : Tubothalamea : Miliolida : Miliolidae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Foraminferea : Miliolida : Miliolidae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
class	Foraminferea	Lee 1990
order	Miliolida	Lankester 1885
suborder	Miliolina	Delage and Hérouard 1896
superfamily	Miliolacea	Ehrenberg 1839
family	Miliolidae	Ehrenberg 1839

Scientific Name

Miliolidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Miliolidae	family	belongs to Foraminiferida	stated without evidence	Dorreen, 1948
Miliolidae	family	belongs to Miliolacea	stated without evidence	Gibson, 1983
Miliolidae	family	belongs to Miliolacea	stated with evidence	Loeblich and Tappan, 1984
Miliolidae	family	belongs to Miliolacea	stated without evidence	Loeblich and Tappan, 1988

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

24 (57%)

First Recorded Appearance

345 - 343 Ma
Carboniferous

Environment

hypersaline,marine (based on Miliolina)

Motility

stationary (based on Miliolina)

Diet

deposit feeder (based on Miliolina)

Taphonomy

high Mg calcite (based on Miliolina)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

A. B. Smith and J. Xu. 1988. Palaeontology of the 1985 Geotraverse, Lhasa to Golmud. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A 327:53-105

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miliolidae

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Miliolinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		5	133 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Neaguitinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Ammosigmoilinella genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ammovertella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		31	345 Ma Carboniferous	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Ankaraella genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaldagia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Crenulostomina ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Flintina ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		2	5.33 Ma Miocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Hauerina genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Helentappanella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Kartalina genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Medovia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Miliola ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	133 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	23.0 Ma Miocene
Neaguites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Neoquinqueloculina genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pateoris genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pentellina genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	37.2 Ma Eocene
Picouina genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Planispirinoides genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Planotrillina genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Praemurgella genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudonummoloculina genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		19	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	86.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Pyrgo genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		45	93.9 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Quinqueloculina genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		250	242 Ma Middle Triassic	0 Ma Extant
Rudoloculina genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sigmoilina genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		55	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	0 Ma Extant
Sinuloculina genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	12.7 Ma Miocene	7.25 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1839	Miliolidae Ehrenberg
1948	Miliolidae Dorreen p. 287
1983	Miliolidae Gibson p. 368
1984	Miliolidae Loeblich and Tappan p. 90
1988	Miliolidae Loeblich and Tappan

References

Smith A. B., Xu J. (1988) Palaeontology of the 1985 Geotraverse, Lhasa to Golmud, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A 327, 53-105

Dorreen J. M. (1948) A Foraminiferal fauna from the Kaiatan Stage (Upper Eocene) of New Zealand, Journal of Paleontology 22 3, 281-300

Gibson T. G. (1983) Key foraminifera from upper Oligocene to lower Pleistocene strata of the central Atlantic coastal plain, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 53, 355-453

Loeblich A. R., Tappan H. (1984) Suprageneric classification of the Foraminiferida (Protozoa), Micropaleontology 30 1, 1-70

Loeblich A. R., Tappan H. (1988) , Foraminiferal genera and their classification, 1-1728

Gross, O. (2001). Foraminifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 60-75 - via World Register of Marine Species

Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1987). Foraminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. 970pp. - via World Register of Marine Species

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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