Buliminacea

Stilostomella bradyi, from Brady (1884).

Belongs within: Rotaliida.
Contains: Buliminidae, Turrilininae, Bolivinitidae.

The Buliminacea are a lineage of originally high trochospiral Foraminifera known from the Upper Triassic to the present (Loeblich & Tappan 1964b).

Characters (from Loeblich & Tappan 1964b): Test high trochospiral or modified to biserial or uniserial; wall fine or coarsely perforate, of radially built calcite; aperture primary, basal slit, or in apertural face, or terminal; may have internal tooth plate or tube, and aperture may be on neck.

<==Buliminacea LT64b
    |  i. s.: Sphaeroidinidae LT64b
    |           |--Pullenoides Hofker 1951 LT64b
    |           |    `--*P. senoniensis Hofker 1951 LT64b
    |           `--Sphaeroidina d’Orbigny 1826 (see below for synonymy) C40
    |                |--*S. bulloides d’Orbigny 1826 C40
    |                |--‘*Sexloculina’ haueri Cžjžek 1848 LT64b
    |                `--‘*Bolbodium’ sphaerula Ehrenberg 1872 LT64b
    |--+--Buliminidae C40
    |  `--Turrilinidae LT64a
    |       |--Turrilininae C40
    |       `--Lacosteininae LT64b
    |            |--Lacosteina Marie 1945 LT64b
    |            |    `--*L. gouskovi Marie 1945 LT64b
    |            `--Spirobolivina Hofker 1956 LT64b
    |                 `--*S. pulchella (Cushman & Stainforth 1947) [=Bolivinopsis pulchella] LT64b
    `--+--Bolivinitidae C40
       `--Eouvigerinidae [Eouvigerininae] LT64a
            |  i. s.: Millettia Schubert 1911 [=Schubertia Silvestri 1911 non Gistl 1848] LT64b
            |           `--*M. tessellata (Brady 1884) [=Sagrina tessellata, *Schubertia tessellata] LT64b
            |--Siphonodosaria Silvestri 1924 C40 [=Sagrinnodosaria Jedlitschka 1931 LT64b]
            |    `--*S. abyssorum (Brady 1881) [=Nodosaria abyssorum, *Sagrinnodosaria abyssorum] LT64b
            |--Eouvigerina Cushman 1926 C40 [incl. Zeauvigerina Finlay 1939 LT64b]
            |    |--E. aculeata (Ehrenberg 1854) [=Loxostomum aculeatum; incl. *E. americana Cushman 1926] LT64b
            |    |--E. gracilis C40
            |    `--E. zelandica (Finlay 1939) [=*Zeauvigerina zelandica] LT64b
            `--+--Siphogenerinoides Cushman 1927 C40
               |    |--*S. plummeri (Cushman 1926) [=Siphogenerina plummeri] LT64b
               |    `--S. oveyi Nakkady 1950 [incl. S. oveyi var. compressa Nakkady 1950] F61
               `--Stilostomella Guppy 1894 LT64b [incl. Nodogenerina Cushman 1927 C40, LT64b]
                    |--*S. rugosa Guppy 1894 LT64b
                    |--S. bradyi (Cushman 1927) [=*Nodogenerina bradyi] LT64b
                    |--‘Nodogenerina’ advena C40
                    `--‘Nodogenerina’ lepida C40

Sphaeroidina d’Orbigny 1826 [incl. Bolbodium Ehrenberg 1872, Sexloculina Cžjžek 1848; Sphaeroidininae] C40

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[C40] Cushman, J. A. 1940. Foraminifera: Their classification and economic use 3^rd ed. Harvard University Press: Cambridge (Massachusetts).

[F61] Furrer, M. A. 1961. Siphogenerita, new genus, and a revision of California Cretaceous "Siphogenerinoides" (Foraminiferida). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 74: 267–274.

[LT64a] Loeblich, A. R., Jr & H. Tappan. 1964a. Sarcodina: chiefly “thecamoebians” and Foraminiferida. In: Moore, R. C. (ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology pt C. Protista 2 vol. 1. The Geological Society of America and The University of Kansas Press.

[LT64b] Loeblich, A. R., Jr & H. Tappan. 1964b. Sarcodina: chiefly “thecamoebians” and Foraminiferida. In: Moore, R. C. (ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology pt C. Protista 2 vol. 2. The Geological Society of America and The University of Kansas Press.