Ataxophragmiinae

Cuneolina pavonia, from Dana (1883).

Belongs within: Ataxophragmiidae.

The Ataxophragmiinae are a group of Foraminifera known from the Lower Cretaceous to the present (Loeblich & Tappan 1964).

Characters (from Loeblich & Tappan 1964): Early stage with three or more chambers in each whorl but increasing in number with growth or uncoiling and spreading to form low conical test; interior with internal pillars and partitions.

Ataxophragmiinae [Ataxophragmidea]
    |--Voloshovinella Loeblich & Tappan 1964 (see below for synonymy) LT64
    |    `--*V. aequisgranensis (Beissel 1891) [=Lituola aequisgranensis, *Beisselina aequisgranensis] LT64
    |--Camagueyia Cole & Bermúdez 1944 LT64
    |    `--*C. perplexa Cole & Bermúdez 1944 LT64
    |--Coprolithina Marie 1941 LT64
    |    `--*C. subcylindrica Marie 1941 LT64
    |--Cubanina Palmer 1936 LT64
    |    `--*C. alavensis Palmer 1936 LT64
    |--Hagenowina Loelich & Tappan 1961 LT64
    |    `--*H. quadribullata (von Hagenow 1842) [=Valvulina quadribullata] LT64
    |--Liebusella Cushman 1933 LT64
    |    `--*L. soldanii (Jones & Parker 1860) [=Lituola soldanii] LT64
    |--Matanzia Palmer 1936 LT64
    |    `--*M. bermudezi Palmer 1936 LT64
    |--Orbignyna von Hagenow 1842 [=Orbignyina Bronn 1853] LT64
    |    `--*O. ovata von Hagenow 1842 [=*Orbignyina ovata] LT64
    |--Pseudolituonella Marie 1955 LT64
    |    `--*P. reicheli Marie 1955 LT64
    |--Remesella Vašíček 1947 LT64
    |    `--*R. mariae Vašíček 1947 LT64
    |--Dictyopsella Munier-Chalmas in Schlumberger 1900 LT64
    |    |--*D. kiliani Munier-Chalmas in Schlumberger 1900 LT64
    |    `--D. chalmasi C40
    |--Tritaxilina Cushman 1911 [=Clavulinella Schubert 1921] LT64
    |    |--*T. caperata (Brady 1881) [=Clavulina caperata, *Clavulinella caperata] LT64
    |    `--T. zealandica H90
    |--Ataxophragmium Reuss 1860 [=Ataxogyroidina Marie 1941; incl. Pernerina Cushman 1933] LT64
    |    |--*A. variabile (d’Orbigny 1840) [=Bulimina variabilis, *Ataxogyroidina variabilis] LT64
    |    `--A. depressum (Perner 1892) [=Bulimina depressa, *Pernerina depressa] LT64
    |--Pseudochrysalidina Cole 1941 [incl. Dukhania Henson 1948, Pseudogoesella Keijzer 1945] LT64
    |    |--*P. floridana Cole 1941 LT64
    |    |--P. conica (Henson 1948) [=*Dukhania conica] LT64
    |    `--P. cubana (Keijzer 1945) [=*Pseudogoesella cubana] LT64
    `--Cuneolina d’Orbigny in de la Sagra 1839 [incl. Cuneolinella Cushman & Bermúdez 1941] LT64
         |--*C. pavonia d’Orbigny 1846 LT64
         |--C. angusta C40
         |--C. conica C40
         `--C. lewisi (Cushman & Bermúdez 1941) [=*Cuneolinella lewisi] LT64

Voloshovinella Loeblich & Tappan 1964 [=Beisselina Voloshinova & Balakhmatova in Rauzer-Chernousova & Fursenko 1959 non Canu 1913] LT64

*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).

[H90] Hayward, B. W. 1990. Use of foraminiferal data in analysis of Taranaki Basin, New Zealand. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 20: 71–83.

[LT64] Loeblich, A. R., Jr & H. Tappan. 1964. 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.