Bifaxaria submucronata is recorded from Brazil, Indonesia and the SW Pacific. The SEMs are of a specimen from New Caledonia, by courtesy of Dennis Gordon and NIWA. Originally published in Gordon (1993)
Original description: Bifaxaria submucronata Busk, 1884.
Locality: Brazil, Challenger Stn 122, 640 m.
Type specimen: BMNH 87.12.9.373