Foraminifera taxon details
Rotalioidea Ehrenberg, 1839
Rotaliacea Ehrenberg, 1839 · unaccepted
- Family Ammoniidae Saidova, 1981
- Family Chapmaninidae Thalmann, 1938 †
- Family Cribroelphidiidae Voloshinova, 1958
- Family Cuvillierinidae Loeblich & Tappan, 1964 †
- Family Elphidiellidae Holzmann & Pawlowski, 2017
- Family Elphidiidae Galloway, 1933
- Family Haynesinidae Mikhalevich, 2013
- Family Miogypsinidae Vaughan, 1928 †
- Family Notorotaliidae Hornibrook, 1961
- Family Pseudorbitoididae Rutten, 1935 †
- Family Rotaliidae Ehrenberg, 1839
- Genus Rotaliidium Vicedo & Robles-Salcedo in Vicedo et al., 2019 †
- Genus Zagrosaria Consorti & Rashidi, 2020 †
- Family Heleninidae Loeblich & Tappan, 1987 accepted as Ammoniidae Saidova, 1981 (Type genus of Heleninidae is genetically within Ammonia clade, Hayward et al. (2021))
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Ehrenberg, C.G. (1839). Die Bildung der europäischen, libyschen und arabischen Kreidefelsen und des Kreidemergels aus mikroskopischen Organismen. 1-91, pls. 1-4. Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin., available online at https://docnum.unistra.fr/digital/collection/coll13/id/102621 [details] 
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Rotalioidea Ehrenberg, 1839. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=465853 on 2026-04-12
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Ehrenberg, C.G. (1839). Die Bildung der europäischen, libyschen und arabischen Kreidefelsen und des Kreidemergels aus mikroskopischen Organismen. 1-91, pls. 1-4. Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin., available online at https://docnum.unistra.fr/digital/collection/coll13/id/102621 [details]
taxonomy source Holzmann, M.; Pawlowski, J. (2017). An updated classification of rotaliid foraminifera based on ribosomal DNA phylogeny. <em>Marine Micropaleontology.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2017.04.002
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additional source Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1987). Foraminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. 970pp., available online at https://books.google.pt/books?id=n_BqCQAAQBAJ [details] Available for editors [request]
taxonomy source Holzmann, M.; Pawlowski, J. (2017). An updated classification of rotaliid foraminifera based on ribosomal DNA phylogeny. <em>Marine Micropaleontology.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2017.04.002
note: genetic basis for families [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1987). Foraminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. 970pp., available online at https://books.google.pt/books?id=n_BqCQAAQBAJ [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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