Foraminifera taxon details
Buliminellita Cushman & Stainforth, 1947 †
721476 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:721476)
accepted
Genus
Buliminellita mirifica Cushman & Stainforth, 1947 † (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Cushman, J.A.; Stainforth, R.M. 1947. A new genus and some new species of Foraminifera from the Upper Eocene of Ecuador. Contr. Cushman Lab. Foram. Res. 23: 77-80., available online at https://cushmanfoundation.allenpress.com/Portals/_default/files/pubarchive/cclfr/23cclfr4.pdf
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Buliminellita Cushman & Stainforth, 1947 †. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=721476 on 2024-04-19
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Cushman, J.A.; Stainforth, R.M. 1947. A new genus and some new species of Foraminifera from the Upper Eocene of Ecuador. Contr. Cushman Lab. Foram. Res. 23: 77-80., available online at https://cushmanfoundation.allenpress.com/Portals/_default/files/pubarchive/cclfr/23cclfr4.pdf
page(s): p. 78 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record 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]
page(s): p. 78 [details] Available for editors
[request] basis of record 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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Diagnosis Test elongate, about three to five wide and low chambers per whorl in a high trochospiral coil, chambers fewer and less broad than in Buliminella, intercameral sutures strongly oblique and depressed, final chamber may be nearly central in position; wall calcareous, optically radial, finely perforate, with evenly distributed pores, surface smooth; aperture in the early stage loop shaped as in Buliminella, but becoming terminal, rounded, and produced on a neck in the adult, tubular tooth plate visible within the apertural opening, continuing within to attach to the side of the previous foramen. U. Eocene to L. Pliocene; Ecuador; USA: California; Italy. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]