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Pseudofusulina

Classification

    Phylum:  
Protista
    Subphylum:  
Sarcodina
    Class:  
Reticularea
    Subclass:  
Granuloreticulosia
    Order:  
Foraminiferida
    Suborder:  
Fusulinina
    Superfamily:  
Fusulinacea
    Family:  
Fusulinidae
    Subfamily:  
Schwagerininae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Pseudofusulina Dunbar & SKINNER, 1931, *644, p. 252
    Type Species:  
P. huecoensis, OD


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Fig. 319,1a. * P. huecoensis, Hueco Ls., USA(Tex.), tang. sec. of paratype, approx. X10 (*1922). --Fig. 319,1b. P.? disca (Lee), Tayuan Ser., China, axial sec. of holotype, X30 (*1922). --Fig. 319,1c. P. vulgaris fusiformis (Schellwien), USSR(Darvaz Ser.), axial sec. of holotype, * (*1922)


Synonyms

Grabauina


Geographic Distribution

L.Perm., N.Am.-S.Am.-C.Am.-Eu.-Asia-Japan-Asia Minor


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Perm.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Asselian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
298.89
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Perm.
    Ending International Stage:  
Kungurian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
274.37


Description

Shell fusiform, large, loosely coiled throughout, spirotheca thick, with structure like Schwagerina, septa broadly but highly fluted, axial fillings light in some, absent in most, phrenothecae abundant (*644, *762, *1118, *1922).




References

$\qquad$ \& Skinner, J. W., 1931, New fusulinid genera from the Permian of West Texas: Am. Jour. Sci., ser. 5, v. 22, p. 252-268, pl. 1-3.-(645) 1936, Schwagerina versus Pseudoschwagerina and Paraschwagerina: Jour. Paleontology, v. 10, p. 83-91, pl. 10-11. $\qquad$ (646) 1937, Pt. 2, Permian Fusulinidae of Texas: Univ. Texas, Bull. 3701, v. 3, p. 517. 825, pl. 42-81, fig. 89-97.


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