Foraminifera taxon details
Bimonilina Eicher, 1960 †
556508 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:556508)
accepted
Genus
Bimonilina variana Eicher, 1960 † (type by original designation)
- Species Bimonilina dualis (Myatlyuk, 1973) †
- Species Bimonilina entis Myatlyuk in Myatlyuk & Vasilenko, 1988 †
- Species Bimonilina manitobensis (Wickenden, 1932) †
- Species Bimonilina reciprocata Loeblich & Tappan, 1982 †
- Species Bimonilina teplovkensis (Myatlyuk, 1973) †
- Species Bimonilina textulariaeformis Akimets, 1966 †
- Species Bimonilina variana Eicher, 1960 †
- Species Bimonilina brevis (Zheng, 1979) accepted as Pseudobolivina brevis Zheng, 1979 (unaccepted > superseded combination, Opinion of Debenay (2013))
- Species Bimonilina elenae Vasilenko in Myatlyuk & Vasilenko, 1988 † accepted as Bicazammina lagenaria (Krasheninnikov, 1974) † (Subjective junior synonym Opinion of Cetean et al. (2011))
- Species Bimonilina sinensis Zheng, 1988 accepted as Parvigenerina sinensis (Zheng, 1988) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Eicher, D. L. (1960). Stratigraphy and micropaleontology of the Thermopolis Shale. <em>Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University.</em> 15: 1-126., available online at http://peabody.yale.edu/sites/default/files/documents/scientific-publications/ypmB15_1960.pdf
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Diagnosis Biserial, commonly somewhat twisted and tending to become loosely biserial but not completely uniserial; wall finely...
Diagnosis Biserial, commonly somewhat twisted and tending to become loosely biserial but not completely uniserial; wall finely agglutinated, insoluble in acid; aperture terminal and slitlike and may have a projecting lip on one side. L. Cretaceous (Albian) to U. Cretaceous (Cenomanian); USA: Wyoming, Texas; Czechoslovakia. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Bimonilina Eicher, 1960 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=556508 on 2026-04-01
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original description
Eicher, D. L. (1960). Stratigraphy and micropaleontology of the Thermopolis Shale. <em>Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University.</em> 15: 1-126., available online at http://peabody.yale.edu/sites/default/files/documents/scientific-publications/ypmB15_1960.pdf
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page(s): p. 65 [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Biserial, commonly somewhat twisted and tending to become loosely biserial but not completely uniserial; wall finely agglutinated, insoluble in acid; aperture terminal and slitlike and may have a projecting lip on one side. L. Cretaceous (Albian) to U. Cretaceous (Cenomanian); USA: Wyoming, Texas; Czechoslovakia. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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