Cyclammina

Cyclammina
Temporal range: 140.2–0 Ma
Cyclammina pusilla
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): SAR
(unranked): Rhizaria
Phylum: Foraminifera
Class: Rotaliata
Subclass: Textulariia
Order: Loftusiida
Family: Cyclamminidae
Subfamily: Cyclammininae
Genus: Cyclammina
Brady, 1876[1]
Species

Several, including:

  • Cyclammina bradyi Cushman, 1910
  • Cyclammina cancellata Brady, 1879 (type)
  • Cyclammina compressa Cushman, 1917
  • †Cyclammina elegans Cushman & Jarvis 1932
  • Cyclammina orbicularis Brady, 1884
  • †Cyclammina pacifica Beck, 1943
  • †Cyclammina pauciloculata Brady, 1879
  • Cyclammina pusilla Brady, 1884
  • Cyclammina senegalensis Colom, 1956

Cyclammina is a genus of foraminifers in the family Cyclamminidae. Most species are extinct, but there are a few that are extant.

C. elegans was a species from the Cretaceous of Trinidad[2] and from New Zealand.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ A Monograph of Carboniferous and Permian Foraminifera:(the Genus Fusulina Excepted). HB Brady, 1876
  2. ↑ Upper Cretaceous Foraminifera from Trinidad. Joseph Augustine Cushman, PW Jarvis Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum, 1932.
  3. ↑ Hayward, B.W.; Tendal, O.S.; Carter, R.; Grenfell, H.R.; Morgans, H.E.G.; Scott, G.H.; Strong, C.P.; Hayward, J.J. (2012). Phylum Foraminifera: foraminifera, xenophyophores, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2012). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 3. Kingdoms Bacteria, Protozoa, Chromista, Plantae, Fungi. pages 242-287
  • Beck, R. Stanley (1943); "Eocene Foraminifera from Cowlitz River, Lewis County, Washington" Journal of Paleontology 17'(6), pages 584-614


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