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Miliolina
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| Rank | suborder (PBDB) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Foraminferea : Miliolida : Miliolina | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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| Status (PBDB) | extant | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 472 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Extant Size (PBDB) | 242 (51%) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 359 - 354 Ma Paleozoic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | hypersaline,marine (based on Miliolina) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Motility | stationary (based on Miliolina) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Diet | deposit feeder (based on Miliolina) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ecospace Comments | deposit, herbivore, detritivore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taphonomy | high Mg calcite (based on Miliolina) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | S. J. Beavington-Penney and A. Racey. 2004. Ecology of extant nummulitids and other larger benthic foraminifera: applications in palaeoenvironmental analysis. Earth-Science Reviews 67:219-265 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Alveolinacea superfamily | listed (PBDB) | 196 | 125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Cornuspiroidea superfamily | listed (PBDB) | 1,487 | 359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Miliolacea superfamily | listed (PBDB) | 1,133 | 345 Ma Carboniferous | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Soritacea superfamily | listed (PBDB) | 349 | 228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Soritoidea superfamily | listed (PBDB) | 130 | 272 Ma Permian | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Squamulinacea superfamily | listed (PBDB) | 0 Ma Extant | |||
| Austrotrillinidae ✝ family | listed (PBDB) | 12 | 33.9 Ma Oligocene | 16.0 Ma Miocene | |
| Baisalinidae ✝ family | listed (PBDB) | 29 | 279 Ma Permian | 254 Ma Permian | |
| Fabulariidae ✝ family | listed (PBDB) | 15 | 86.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 41.3 Ma Eocene | |
| Meandropsinidae ✝ family | listed (PBDB) | 23 | 101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| Meandrospiridae family | listed (PBDB) | 31 | 247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Rhapydioninidae family | listed (PBDB) | 48 | 99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Hoyenella ✝ genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 113 | 252 Ma Permian | 209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic | |
| Inaequalina genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 0 Ma Extant | |||
| Lachlanella genus | listed (PBDB) | 2 | 23.0 Ma Miocene | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Sinoloculina genus | listed (PBDB) | 0 Ma Extant |
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1896 | Miliolina Delage and Hérouard |
| 1988 | Miliolina Loeblich and Tappan |
| 2009 | Miliolina Margerel p. 612 |
| 2012 | Miliolina Gale et al. p. 105 |
| 2012 | Miliolina Margerel |
References
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!
