Foraminifera taxon details
Praeplectostaffella Cózar, Somerville & Burgess, 2008 †
1054853 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1054853)
accepted
Genus
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Cózar, P.; Somerville, I. D.; Burgess, I. (2008). New foraminifers in the Visean/Serpukhovian boundary interval of the Lower Limestone Formation, Midland Valley, Scotland. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 82(05): 906-923., available online at https://doi.org/10.1666/07-103.1
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Original description Diagnosis. Small eostaffellidae with involute, highly skewed inner whorls with rounded periphery and final planispiral...
Original description Diagnosis. Small eostaffellidae with involute, highly skewed inner whorls with rounded periphery and final planispiral whorl, partly evolute and with subangular periphery. Wall differentiated, tectum and lower layer overlain by a secondary floor covering. Pseudochomata poorly developed but present.
Occurrence. The type species was described in material from the Tulskian, Aleksinskian, Mikhailovskian and Venevskian substages (or horizons as used in Menning et al., 2006) from the Moscow Basin, all of them of late Visean age. Subsequently, the species has been recorded in the Tarouskian and Steshevskian substages (Gibshman, 2001) of lower Serpukhovian age (Fig. 3). It is also known from the upper Visean in the Donets Basin (see Vdovenko, 2001). In England and Scotland, the genus is known in the Brigantian and Pendleian (see details in Praeplectostaffella anvilensis n. sp.). Conil et al. (1991) and Poty et al. (2006) used Plectostaffella, and irregular eostaffellinids respectively, as markers of the latest Asbian and Brigantian but without illustrations, and thus it is difficult to validate those taxa. However, Conil et al. (1980) described Endostaffella settella as well as some Plectostaffella, which were illustrated. Those Plectostaffella can be interpreted as pathologies in Eostaffella, but they cannot be included in the new genus Praeplectostaffella.
(Cózar et al. (2008)).
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Occurrence. The type species was described in material from the Tulskian, Aleksinskian, Mikhailovskian and Venevskian substages (or horizons as used in Menning et al., 2006) from the Moscow Basin, all of them of late Visean age. Subsequently, the species has been recorded in the Tarouskian and Steshevskian substages (Gibshman, 2001) of lower Serpukhovian age (Fig. 3). It is also known from the upper Visean in the Donets Basin (see Vdovenko, 2001). In England and Scotland, the genus is known in the Brigantian and Pendleian (see details in Praeplectostaffella anvilensis n. sp.). Conil et al. (1991) and Poty et al. (2006) used Plectostaffella, and irregular eostaffellinids respectively, as markers of the latest Asbian and Brigantian but without illustrations, and thus it is difficult to validate those taxa. However, Conil et al. (1980) described Endostaffella settella as well as some Plectostaffella, which were illustrated. Those Plectostaffella can be interpreted as pathologies in Eostaffella, but they cannot be included in the new genus Praeplectostaffella.
(Cózar et al. (2008)).
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Praeplectostaffella Cózar, Somerville & Burgess, 2008 †. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1054853 on 2026-07-27
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Cózar, P.; Somerville, I. D.; Burgess, I. (2008). New foraminifers in the Visean/Serpukhovian boundary interval of the Lower Limestone Formation, Midland Valley, Scotland. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 82(05): 906-923., available online at https://doi.org/10.1666/07-103.1
page(s): p. 915 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): p. 915 [details] Available for editors
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Original description Diagnosis. Small eostaffellidae with involute, highly skewed inner whorls with rounded periphery and final planispiral whorl, partly evolute and with subangular periphery. Wall differentiated, tectum and lower layer overlain by a secondary floor covering. Pseudochomata poorly developed but present.Occurrence. The type species was described in material from the Tulskian, Aleksinskian, Mikhailovskian and Venevskian substages (or horizons as used in Menning et al., 2006) from the Moscow Basin, all of them of late Visean age. Subsequently, the species has been recorded in the Tarouskian and Steshevskian substages (Gibshman, 2001) of lower Serpukhovian age (Fig. 3). It is also known from the upper Visean in the Donets Basin (see Vdovenko, 2001). In England and Scotland, the genus is known in the Brigantian and Pendleian (see details in Praeplectostaffella anvilensis n. sp.). Conil et al. (1991) and Poty et al. (2006) used Plectostaffella, and irregular eostaffellinids respectively, as markers of the latest Asbian and Brigantian but without illustrations, and thus it is difficult to validate those taxa. However, Conil et al. (1980) described Endostaffella settella as well as some Plectostaffella, which were illustrated. Those Plectostaffella can be interpreted as pathologies in Eostaffella, but they cannot be included in the new genus Praeplectostaffella.
(Cózar et al. (2008)).
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