Earlandiidae

Subaxial section of Earlandia elegans, from here.


Belongs within: Fusulinida.

The Earlandiidae are a group of Foraminifera known from the Ordovician to the Carboniferous, with a free test that is tubular or uniserial (Loeblich & Tappan 1964).

<==Earlandiidae [Earlandiinae]
    |--Earlandinita Cummings 1955 LT64
    |    `--*E. perelegans (Plummer 1930) [=Nodosinella perelegans] LT64
    |--Lugtonia Cummings 1955 LT64
    |    `--*L. concinna (Brady 1876) [=Nodosinella concinna] LT64
    |--Pseudoglomospira Bykova in Bykova & Polenova 1955 LT64
    |    `--*P. devonica Bykova in Bykova & Polenova 1955 LT64
    |--Saccamminopsis Sollas 1921 [incl. Carteria Brady in Moore 1870 nec Diesing 1866 nec Gray 1867] LT64
    |    `--S. fusulinaformis (M’Coy 1849) (see below for synonymy) LT64
    |--Paratikhinella Reytlinger 1954 [incl. Earlandinella Cummings 1955] LT64
    |    |--*P. cannula (Bykova 1952) [=Tikhinella cannula] LT64
    |    `--P. cylindrica (Brady 1876) [=Nodosinella cylindrica, *Earlandinella cylindrica] LT64
    `--Earlandia Plummer 1930 LT64
         |--*E. perparva Plummer 1930 LT64
         |--E. elegans (Rauser-Chernousova & Reitlinger in Rauser-Chernousova & Fursenko 1937) GAR03
         `--E. moderata CM01

Saccamminopsis fusulinaeformis (M’Coy 1849) [=Nodosaria fusulinaformis; incl. Saccammina carteri Brady 1871, *Saccamminopsis carteri] LT64

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[CM01] Cózar, P., & B. L. Mamet. 2001. Planohowchinia (Lasiodiscidae, Foraminiferida), a new Late Viséan genus, southwestern Spain. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 31 (3): 228–232.

[GAR03] Groves, J. R., D. Altiner & R. Rettori. 2003. Origin and early evolutionary radiation of the order Lagenida (Foraminifera). Journal of Paleontology 77 (5): 831–843.

[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.

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