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Staffella

Classification

    Phylum:  
Protista
    Subphylum:  
Sarcodina
    Class:  
Reticularea
    Subclass:  
Granuloreticulosia
    Order:  
Foraminiferida
    Suborder:  
Fusulinina
    Superfamily:  
Fusulinacea
    Family:  
Staffellidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Staffella OZAWA, 1925, *1401, p. 24
    Type Species:  
"*Staffella sphaerica von Möller" (="Fusulinella sphaerica Abich" von Möller, 1878, *1295, p. 114, =*Fusulina sphaerica ABICH, 1859, *1A, p. 439, 528), OD


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Fossil Image
Fig. 300,2a,b. S. moellerana Thompson, U.Perm. (Djulfa Beds), Armenia, 2a, ext. view, X10, 2 b, axial sec., X15 (*1922). --Fig. 300,2c. S. expansa Thompson, M.Penn. (Marble Falls Ls. ), USA(Tex. ), axial sec. of holotype, X50 (*1922)


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

U.Carb.(M.Penn.)-Perm., Eu.-Asia-E.Indies-S.Am.-C.Am.-N.Am.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Carb.(M.Penn.)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Moscovian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
315.15
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Perm.
    Ending International Stage:  
Changhsingian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
251.9


Description

Test subspherical at maturity, discoidal in early volutions, wall as in Nankinella, septa plane (*1912, *1922).




References

Ozawa, Yoshiaki, 1925, On the classification of Fusulinidae: Tokyo Imper. Univ., College Sci., Jour., v. 45. art. 4, 26 p., 4 pl., 3 fig.-(1401A) 1925, Paleontological and stratigraphical studies on the Permo-Carboniferous limestone of Nagato, Part 2. Paleontology: Same, v. 45, art. 6, p. 1-90, pl. 1.14.(1401B) 1927, Stratigraphical studies of the Fusulina limestone of Akasaka, Province of Mino: Tokyo Imper. Univ., Faculty Sci., Jour., Sec. 2 (Geol.), v. 2, pt. 3, p. 121-164, pl. 34-46.-(1401C) 1928, Fusulinidae; in Cushman, J. A., Foraminifera, their classification and economic use: p. 131-139, Cushman Lab. Foram. Research (Sharon, Mass.).-(1402) 1928, A new gentus, Depratella, and its relation to Endothyra: Cushman Lab. Foram. Research, Contrib., v. 4, pt. 1, p. 9-10, pl. 1.


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