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Pullenia
Classification
Phylum:
Protista
Subphylum:
Sarcodina
Class:
Reticularea
Subclass:
Granuloreticulosia
Order:
Foraminiferida
Suborder:
Rotalina
Superfamily:
Cassidulinacea
Family:
Nonionidae
Subfamily:
Nonioninae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Pullenia Parker & Jones in Carpenter, Parker & JONES, 1862, *281, p. 184
Type Species:
Nonionina bulloides d'Orbigny, 1846, *1395, p. 107, = Nonionina sphaeroides D'ORBIGNY, 1826, *1391, p. 293 (nom. nud.), OD (M)
Images
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Fig. 613, 6. *P. bulloides (D'ORBIGNY), Mio., Eu. (Aus.); 6a,b, side, edge views of lectotype, X79 (*2117)
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
cosmop.
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Cret.
Beginning International Stage:
Cenomanian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
100.5
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Rec.
Ending International Stage:
Meghalayan
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
0
Description
Test free, spheroidal to compressed, planispiral and involute, chambers few, 3 to 6 in final whorl, sutures radial, wall calcareous, finely perforate, granular in structure, aperture a narrow crescentic interiomarginal slit extending nearly from umbilicus on one side to that opposite.
References
Buck, Emil, , Parker, W. K., \& Jones, T. R., 1862, Introduction to the study of the Foraminifera: Ray Soc. Publs., p. 1-319, pl. 1-22.
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Protista
Subphylum:
Sarcodina
Class:
Reticularea
Subclass:
Granuloreticulosia
Order:
Foraminiferida
Suborder:
Rotalina
Superfamily:
Cassidulinacea
Family:
Nonionidae
Subfamily:
Nonioninae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Pullenia Parker & Jones in Carpenter, Parker & JONES, 1862, *281, p. 184
Type Species:
Nonionina bulloides d'Orbigny, 1846, *1395, p. 107, = Nonionina sphaeroides D'ORBIGNY, 1826, *1391, p. 293 (nom. nud.), OD (M)
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 613, 6. *P. bulloides (D'ORBIGNY), Mio., Eu. (Aus.); 6a,b, side, edge views of lectotype, X79 (*2117)
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
cosmop.
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Cret.
Beginning International Stage:
Cenomanian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
100.5
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Rec.
Ending International Stage:
Meghalayan
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
0
Description
Test free, spheroidal to compressed, planispiral and involute, chambers few, 3 to 6 in final whorl, sutures radial, wall calcareous, finely perforate, granular in structure, aperture a narrow crescentic interiomarginal slit extending nearly from umbilicus on one side to that opposite.
References
Buck, Emil, , Parker, W. K., \& Jones, T. R., 1862, Introduction to the study of the Foraminifera: Ray Soc. Publs., p. 1-319, pl. 1-22.