CONTRIBUTIONS

FROM THE CUSHMAN FOUNDATION

FOR FORAMINIFERAL RESEARCH

VOLUME XVIII, Part 2 April, 1967

Contents PAGE No. 329. Annotated bibliography of Paleozoic nonfusulinid Foraminifera, Addendum 4 Donald F. Toomey and B. Mamet ...... 55 No. 330. Variation in test morphology of Triloculina linneiana d'Orbigny in laboratory cultures Detmar Schnitker ...... 84 Corrections ...... 87 Recent Literature on the Foraminifera Ruth Todd ...... 88

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CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE CUSHMAN FOUNDATION FOR FORAMINIFERAL RESEARCH VOLUME XVIII, PART 2, APRIL 1967 329. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PALEOZOIC NONFUSULINlD FORAMINIFERA, ADDENDUM 4 DONALD FRANCIS TOOMEY Pan American Petroleum Corporation, Research Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma and B. MAMET Department of Geology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada

ABSTRACT ozoic nonfusulinid Foraminifera according to desig­ This addendum includes 150 annotated r eference~ per­ nated geographic provinces. The inclusion of the taining to Paleozoic nonfusulinid Foraminifera, and ca n be considered r easonably complete through the year 1965. present 150 references continues to point up the As in previous bibliographies. (Toom ey. 1959. 1961. 1963, pronounced increase of foraminiferal literature 1965, 1966)1. the aims are unchanged: (1) to ~ umm arlze from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East (Col­ briefly the per tinent data contained in each article, (2) umn C), during the last five years. Significant ad­ to li!~t all new genera a.nd species de8cribed therein, and ditions have also been made in the Soviet Union (3) to denote, by brack eta, a ll taxonomic changes noted from curl·ent and subsequent publications, thus making (Column A), due mainly to their ever increased the bibliogra phy a more u seful working tool. An attempt usage of the endothyroid smaller foraminifers in is a lso m ade to evaluate the literature to date and pos­ stratigraphically subdividing the Lower Carbon­ siblY to delineate trends. iferous. INTRODUCTION In Text Figure 2 the foraminiferal literature out­ This an notated bibliography consists of 36 ref­ put has been plotted according to geologic age. In erences containing original descriptions of genera general, the basic overall trend remains similar, ex­ and species, and taxonomic nomenclature of Paleo­ cept that there is a distinct increase in Mississippian zoic nonfusulinid Foraminifera. An additional 114 (Lower Carboniferous) foraminiferal literature. references that utilized smaller foraminifers in This is primarily due to the addition of so many stratigraphic subdivision and that mention incidental Soviet references pertaining to Lower Carbonifer­ occurrences are also included for completeness. ous endothyroid studies. The 150 references have been annotated by the ANNOTATED BmLIOGRAPHY compilers. These annotations include geologic age, geographic locality, type of illustrations, orig­ A. PRECARBONIFEROUS FORAMINIFERA inal language, new forms described, and comments I. BIRtNA, L. M., 1949, The boundary between in brackets on taxonomic changes from the anno­ the Devonian and . the Carboniferous in the tated article or noted from subsequent publica­ central portion of the Russian Platform in the tions. light of a petrographic study of the bordering This bibliography may be considered to be rea­ layers: Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Izvestia, ser. sonably complete through the year 1965. This in­ geol. No.5, p. 67-81, [in Russian with Eng­ el udes the Soviet references, which, through the lish summary]. able assistance of Professor Mamet, have been The writer notes the occurrence of the for­ ompletely up-dated. aminifers Hyperammilla minima, Bisphaera, EIl­ Including this addendum, the total number of dothyra, and Umbel/ilia, in scattered outcrops of annotated Paleowic nonfusulinid foraminiferal ref­ Upper Devonian-Lower Carboniferous rocks ex­ erences has reached 815. The compilers would posed on the central portion of the Russian Plat­ greatly appreciate the effort and cooperation of all form, U.S.S.R. Paleowic foraminiferal workers in keeping them 2. CHERNOV, G. A., 1961 , New data on the mrrent on all new works that appear by sending stratigraphy of the Upper Devonian in the pertinent reprints and separates when available. eastern part of the Bolshezemelsk Tundra: LITERATURE EVALUATION Akad. Nauk S.S.s.R., Doklady, v. 136, no. I, AND APPARENT TRENDS p. 183-186, [in Russian; English translation Text Fig. I is an attempt to show chronologic­ IN: Doklady ESS, Am. Oeo!. Inst., v. 136, .illy the distribution of articles relating to Pale- nos. 1-6, p. 42-44] . A detailed study of the fauna of the Upper _ t:"o ntr. C U!:l hman Jo"ound. Foram. Research, Y. 10, p. 71- lA5: v. 12, P. 33-46: v. 14, p . 77-94; v. 16, P. 1-21 ; v. Devonian deposits in the eastern part of the Bol­ :-;. ll. 46-66. shezemelsk Tundra in the region of the Ayachyaga 56 TOOMEY ANO MAME T-BIBLIOGRAPH Y OF PA L }

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River, a tributary of the Vorkuta, and on the Usa parts of the basin where normal salinity and an ac­ River and its tributaries, the Yelets and Lek-Yelets, ti ve hyd rodynamic regi me prevailed. U.S.S.R., permitted el aborate detailed faunal stud­ 5. CHUVASHOV, B. 1965, Foraminifera and ies which resulted in the establishment of a num­ r., algae from the Upper Devonian sediments in ber of strati graphic levels in the Upper Devonian the western slope of the central and southern deposits. Previously described typical Frasnian and Urals: Akad. Nauk S.S.S. R., Trudy, Ural Fammenian foraminiferal species assemblages are Branch, Inst. Geol., Trans., Sverdlovsk, No. listed from this region, and , in additi on, the foram­ 74, Problems of Stral. No.8, p. 3-153, 29 pI., iniferal microfaunas of the transitional boundary 3 text-fig., [in Russian]. beds of the Lower Carboniferous are listed. From the Upper Devonian sediments along 3. CHERNOV, G . A., 1964, Silurian deposits of the western slope of the central and southern Ural the Chernov Uplift (Bol' shezemel'skaya Tun­ Mountains, U.S.S.R. , a microfauna of 116 species, dra): Akad. Nauk S.S .S.R., Doklady, v. 156, of which one genus and 29 species are new, is de­ no. 4, p. 843-846, I text-fig., [in Russian]. scribed and illustrated by thin-section photomicro­ Bed-by-bed collections of fossils, primarily graphs. The new forms are: Paratilllrall1milla brachiopods and ostracodes, support the inference turgida, P. scilllla, P. m Ollstrata, P. horrida, P. reg­ that a thick Silurian carbonate section is present lI/aris, p, o bllala, Cribrosplw eroides in com plus, in the Chernov Uplift., U.S.S.R. These beds were Uralinella ova/is, R auserilla variosa, Eo /uberi/ina once erroneously mapped as Middle and Upper praecipia, Tll beporill a? illcita, Caligel/a? di vida, Devonian deposits. Reitlinger identified the foram­ Paracaligel/oides abramjallae n. gen., P. mllricati­ inifers and asserted that the species assemblage, jormis, Bailugallella ser piell sis, Pliratiklzill ella ill ­ of previously described forms, is typicall y Upper solila , P. vizlz aica, Ev/allia prava, E .? elllnerala, Silurian (Lower Ludlovian). R ectallgulilla mammata, Brullsia Il ovita, Septaglo­ mospirall el/a (S.) lastica, S. Ilimia, Haplophragmel­ 4. CHUVA SHOV, B. I., 1964, Bionomic descrip­ la vi/vell sis, Plectogyra asjamica, Cornuspira pus­ tion of the Fammenian Basin on the western sila, Nallicel/a uralica, N. suljomica, and Umbel/a slope of the central and south Urals: Paleont. efJusa [should be referred to Umbel/ilia; see Loe­ Zhur., No. 4, p. 10-22, 2 text-fi g. , [in Rus­ blich and Tappan, 1961 ; Chuvashov regards the sian; English translation IN : Internal. Geol. umbellinids as charophytes]. Significant taxo­ Rev., v. 7, no. II, p. 2054-2062, 2 text-fig.). nomic changes incl ude the foll owing: Cribro­ In the Upper Devonian (Fammenian) basin splwera simplex Reitlinger, 1954 = Cribrosphaer­ on the western slope of the central and south Ural oides simplex ( Reitlinger) ; Cribrosphaera crassa Mountains, U.S.S.R., three major facies types are Pronina, 1960 = Cribrosphaeroides crassllS (Pron­ we ll developed : ( I ) shoal facies, consisting of ina) ; Usloll ia permira Antropov, 1959 = Crib­ thick beds of limestone and dolomite with some rosphaeroides permirus (Antropov) ; EOll odosaria? anhydrite, (2 ) depression facies, consistin g of bl ack multiformis Lipina, 195 0 = Tikhillel/a multiformis bituminous limestone, cherty mudstone and bl ack (Lipina); SYlliel/a tortuosa Antropov, 1950 = R ec­ shale, and (3) an intermediate facies, consisting lllllgulilill 10rlnoslI A ntropov; Brullsiill (l ura /iell of interbedded types from the other two facies. Durkin a, J 959 = BTUllsiilla primula nom. nov.; The principal fl oral and faunal elements of each A mmobaculiles marko vskii Tchernysheva, 1952 = facies are uniquely tabulated in text-fig. 2. Qllasiell dothyra? markovskii (Tchernysheva); Tour­ Among the smaller foraminifers the most Il ayel/a (Eotoumayel/a ) jllbra Lipina and Pronina, widespread are the parathuramminids ( Paralhurall1 - 1964 = Comuspira jubra (Lipina and Pronina); milia, Bisphaera, Cribrosplweroides, Eovollllilla, Lillgulilla rauserae Tchernysheva, 1952 = Nodo­ and Tuberililla) which lived both in very shallow saria rallserae (Tchernysheva). waters and at the maximum depth occurrences in the Fammeni an Basin . These foraminifers 6. CON IL, R., and Lvs, M., 1964, Materiaux have a wide range of salinity tolerance and coul d pour I'etude micropaleontologique de Dinant­ exist under conditions of salinity which very few ien de la Belgique et de la France (Avesnois) . other orga nisms could endure. The more highl y Pt. I : Algues et Foraminiferes and Pt. 2: Fo­ organi zed fo ramini fe rs of the genera Septogloll1 o­ raminiferes (suite) : Mem. lnst. Geol. Uni v. spirOrdovician (Richmondian) agglutinated Foramini­ dothyroid-type smaller foraminifers in the Upper fera from the Sylvan Shale of Oklahoma, Maquok­ Devonian rocks of Moravia, Czechoslovakia. eta and Orchard Creek Shales of Missouri and Illi­ nois, and the Waynesville Formation of Kentucky. 11. IRELAND, H. A., 1966, Silurian arenaceous This report includes the first description of the Foraminifera from sub-surface strata of north­ genus Tolypammilla [probably should be referred eastern Kansas: Micropaleontology, v. 12, to the genus Minammodyles; see Henbest, 1963] no. 2, p. 215-234, 1 pI., 2 text-fig., 5 tables. in the Ordovician, and of the genus Blaslammilla Foraminifera were extracted from acid resi­ in the Ordovician of North America. The foramin­ dues of well samples of the subsurface Hunton ifers Thuramminoides sphaeroidalis Plummer, Group of the Salina and Forest City Basins of 1945, emended Conkin, 1961 , and ToLypammilla northeastern Kansas. It is believed that the micro­ sp. are common to all of (he sampled units, where­ fauna is restricted to the Niagaran portion of the as Blaslammilla sp. is only reported from the Syl­ Silurian beds and is thought to be the stratigraphic va n Shale of Oklahoma. The foraminifers are il­ and faunal equivalent of the Clarita Member of lustrated by whole-specimen photomicrographs. the Chimneyhill Limestone of the Arbuckle Moun­ tains, Oklahoma. Twenty agglutinated species rep­ 8. GARETSKY, R. G., ET AL., 1961 , Lower resenting eleven genera were identified, among Carboniferous and Upper Devonian deposits which are two new species and one new genus. of the Zhanasu region: Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., The microfauna is illustrated by whole-specimen Doklady, v. 136, no. 6, p. '1418-1421, [in drawings. The new forms are: Hyperbathoides Russian]. (n. gen.) sclllvalmi, and Glomospirella ellipsoidalis. From the Upper Devonian (upper Fras­ Important taxonomic revisions include the follow­ nian) deposits of the Zhanasu Region of the Soviet ing: Arellosipilon rugosa Miller, 1956 = Bathysi­ Union, a typical microfaunal assemblage is report­ pilon rugosus Ireland, 1939; Lituotuba illflata ire­ ed consisting of the following: EOllodosaria sp. land, 1939, and Lituotuba exserla Moreman, Dunn, -f. E. slalinogorski, E. rauserae, E. sp. cf. E. kikiell­ 1942 = G lomospirella illflata (Ireland); Lituotuba sis, E. evlanellsis, Eogeillilzina devonica, and elollgata Dunn, 1942 = Glomospirella elollgata Sallicel/a sp. cf. N. evolula. All forms come from (Dunn); and Turritellel/a osgoodellsis Dunn, 1942 a limestone-argillite sequence. = Turrilellel/a fisheri Dunn.

9. GUTSCHICK, R. C., 1966, Transitional Devon­ 12. KOROLYUK, 1. K. and LAGUT EN KOVA, N. S., ian to Mississippian environmental changes 1965, Further finds of problematic microfos­ in western Montana: Kansas Geol. Survey sils in Bav1y sediments: Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Bull. 169, Symposium on cyclic sedimenta­ Doklady, v. 161, no. 2, p. 455-458, 1 pI., tion, p. 171-181, 5 text-fig. [in Russian; English translation IN: Doklady The writer presents a summary of the gen­ ESS Am. Geol. Inst., v. 161, p. 213-216,1 pl.]. eralized biostratigraphy for the Devonian-Mississip- Microfossils and problematic microfossils 60 T OOMEY AND MA 1\ Jl<~T-B I B LI OG RAPHY OF f'ALEOZOrc NON F USULI N I D FOR A1\IJ N IFERA, ADD. " from the Lower Bavly Series of Rhipean age and ( p. 47-53) of the Salina Basin area of Kansas, the the Upper Bavly Series of Early Paleozoic age are writer notes that where the sequence is "normal", reported from boreholes in the VOlga-Urals region the fine-grained dolomites of the foraminiferal of the Soviet Union. In the Upper Bavly Series zone and their limestone correlatives on the margin a mass of representatives of the groups A rclwe­ of the North Kansas Basin are characterized by the sp/wera Suleimanov, Pa/aeosphaeroidil/a gr . n., and presence of diffusely distributed agglutinated fo­ Va/della gr. n., i.e. principally different spheroidal raminifers resembling Ammodiscas and Liluolaba; organisms, are reported. A special form of the forms present in the Silurian of Oklahoma. It is Lenlicu/aria group was also detected. The fact further noted that on the southern margin of the that, like A rchaesphaera , they may all be Foram­ North Kansas Basin, where dolomite beds are inter­ inifera is shown by the character of their walls. stratified with limestones, the agglutinated foram­ LeI/lieu/aria and Pa/aeosphaeroidina possess the inifer A mmodiscus has been found in the limestone thick vitreous walls specific to Foraminifera rath­ as well as in the dolomite. [See Ireland, 1966, for er than to algae. The Va/della group has agglutin­ further comments on this microfauna]. ated foraminiferal-type walls. The following new foraminiferal types are 16. LELESHUS, V. L., 1965, Devonian deposits of described and illustrated by thin-section photomi­ the Zeravshan-Gissar Mountains: Akad. Nauk crographs: A rchaesphaera rossica f. n., Palaeo­ S.S.S.R., Doklady, v. 162, no. I, p. 158-160, 1 sp/weroidina primililla f. n., Lel/licularia pu/chra text-fig., [in Russian; English translation IN: f. n. , L. crassalhecala f. n., and Valdella valda, f. n. Doklady ESS, Am. Geol. Inst., v. 162, nos. 1-6, p. 26-28, 1 text-fig.]. 13. LE MAITRE, D., 193/, Sur Ie presence d'El/do­ From the Lower Devonian rocks of the Ih yra dans Ie Famennien de Jeumont (Nord): northern slope of the Zeravshan Range (Shishkat, Ann. Soc. Gliol. du Nord, v. 56, p. 213-214 Madm, Vashan and Dimnora River Basins), and [in French]. at the base of the southwestern slopes of the Turk­ The writer reports the presence of the fo­ estan Range (Garibak, Shingak, Uchkol', Maykota raminifer EI/dolhyra from supposed Devonian and Amandora Gorges) of the asiatic portion of the (Fammenian) rocks in the vicinity of Jeumont, Soviet Union, the smaller foraminifers Paralhur­ France. ammina devol/ica Vissarionova and Vicil/esphaera al/ga/ala Antropov are reported as occurring in de­ 14. LEE, W., 1943 , The stratigraphy and structural posits of a littoral shallow-water facies associated development of the Forest City Basin in Kan­ with an abundant and varied biota. sas: Kansas Geol. Survey Bull. 51 , 142 p., 22 text-fig., 2 tables. 17. LIPINA, O. A. and PRONINA, T. V., 1964, A In a section dealing with the Silurian rocks new subgenus of Toarnayella from the upper (p. 43-49) of the subsurface of the Forest City Frasnian of the Urals: Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Basin of northeastern Kansas, it is noted that four Paleont. Zhur., No.3, p. 125-126, 1 text-fig., zones are present and can be correlated within the [in Russian; English translation IN: Int. Geol. basin. These zones are: (1) oolitic, (2) white Rev., v. 7, no. 10, Oct. 1965, p. 1858-/859]. chert, (3) foraminiferal, and (4) drusy quartz. Under the genus Toamayella Dain, 1953, a The foraminiferal zone is 20 to 50 feet thick and new subgenus EOloamayella is described from the contains agglutinated foraminifers that consist in Upper Devonian (upper Frasnian) rocks of the part of flat, closely coiled, discoidal tests having Ural Mountains, U.S.S.R. One new species, Toar_ the aperture at the end of a tube extending sharply nay ella (Eolournayella) jubra, is fully described at right angles to the coil. These foraminifers, and illustrated by representative thin-section photo­ according to the writer, resemble Liluolaba and micrographs. [According to Chuvashov, 1965, Ammodiscus described by Moreman (1930) and Toarnayella (Eoloumayella) jubra Lipina and Pro­ Ireland (1939) from the Silurian of Oklahoma. It nina, 1964 = Comaspira jabra (Lipina and Pro­ is believed that the Silurian of the Forest City nina).] Basin is correlative to the Chimneyhill Limestone EOloumayella seems to be transitional from of Oklahoma. [See Ireland (1966) for a complete the ammodiscids to the tournayellids and to be an­ description of this microfauna.] cestral to or to contain marks of characteristic structures in certain tournayellid stocks. 15. LEE, W. 1956, Stratigraphy and structural de­ velopment of the Salina Basin area: Kansas 18. LORANGER, D. M., 1965, Devonian paleoecol­ Geol. Survey, Bull. 121, 167 p., 12 pI., 23 ogy of northeastern Alberta: Jour. Sed. Pet­ text-fig., 19 tables. rology, v. 35 , no. 4, 818-837, 5 text-fig. In a section dealing with Silurian rocks On the basis of a study of the Devonian CONTRIB t.; TIONS FROM THE CU!=i HMA...L~ F OUNDATION F OR FORAMlNIFERAL RESEARCH 61 rocks (both surface and subsurface) of Alberta, well as agglutinated fragments which are rem­ Canada, the writer reports the occurrence of Elldo­ iniscent of the Foraminifera have been found in lilyra gal/owayi ( = Nallicel/a gal/owayi (Thom­ the Precambrian (Algonkian) rocks of the Belt as» from the Mildred Member of the Waterways Series of Montana (age somewhere in excess of I Formation (uppermost Givetian) [most workers billion years). Representative material from the would regard this stratigraphic hori zon as Upper Belt Series is illustrated and briefly discussed, but Devonian (Frasnian) in age]. is still not completely evaluated. In general, Cam­ The writer also reports that the Ireton Mem_ brian and Precambrian tests are much smaller than ber of the Woodbend Group (Frasni an) contains those of younger foraminifers and the shell ma­ the foraminifers SemilexllI/aria tllOmasi Miller and terial appears to be less capable of satisfactory pres­ Carmer and Psell dopalmll/a palmoides? Cushman ervation. These may be a few of the pertinent rea­ and Waters. sons for the lack of documented occurrences of Foraminifera from beds as old as these. 19. LYASH ENKO, A. I. and lUNA, N. S. , 1962, New The isolation of these fonfminifers can only data on the Upper Devoni an geology of the be achieved by utilizing the so-called dry-prepar_ southeastern side of the Tokmova Arch: ation technique (selective pulverization, electro­ Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Doklady, v. 143, no. 4, static separation, and air-stream sifting) . p. 928-930, [in Russian]. The Upper Devonian (Frasnian) Yevlanov 22. PONCET, J ., 1965, Sur quelques particularites Horizon in Mordovinian, A.S.S.R., yields the algae de fixation et d 'association presentees par (sic) Tikhillel/a sp. cf. T . pirllia Bykova and the des Foraminiferes du Devonien inferieur foraminifer EOllodosaria evlall ellsis Lipina. (Cotentin ); Soc. Geol. France, C. R. Seance 5th avril , p. 1\6-117, 6 fig., [in French] . 20. MAM ET, B., 1965, Etude de facies carbonates The writer presents a number of thin-sec­ paleozoiques : Bull. Soc. BeIge de Geol., v. tion photomicrographs clearly showing encrusting 73, no. 2, p. 133-142 [in French]. forami nifers found in the Lower Devonian reefoid The gen us Umbel/illa is recorded from the deposits of Baubigny, France. It is believed that Upper Devonian (upper Frasni an) of Golzinne, the encrusting foraminifers found in this deposit Belgium. had a definite role in stabilizing organic debris. It is further noted that this particular encrusting 21. PFLUG , H. D., 1965, Foraminiferen und ahn­ foraminifer appears to have had a commensal re­ liche Fossilreste aus dem Kambrium und lationship with the alga R Olilplelzel/a. The encrust­ Algonkium : Palaeontographica, v. 125 , no. ing forami ni fer is neither forma ll y named nor de­ 1-3 , p. 46-60, pI. 10-12, 4 text-fig., 3 tables scribed. [in German]. From the Upper Cambrian Alum Shales of 23 . POYARKOV, B. V., 1964, First colloquium on Schonen, Sweden, a new genus and species of fo­ the st ud y of fossil Cilara algae and their im­ ra minifer, Scalliel/a scalliellsis, is full y described portance for stratigraphy: Paleont. ZhuL, and illustrated by superb high-power ( X 1800-5000 ) No. I, p. 143-144, [in Russian; English trans­ thin-section photomicrographs. The writer con­ lation I N : Internat. Geol. Rev., v. 7, no. 8, p. tends that the new form is closely related to mem_ 1495-1 496]. bers of the family Palaeotextulariidae. The test is This paper presents a report on a fossil extremely small , but in no sense can it be consid­ charophyte seminar held by ten Russian paleoalgol­ ere d primitive. The initial chambers are roughly ogists at Moscow, begi nning March 29, 1963. In­ arranged in a trochospiral; the adult part of the dividual papers are discussed and the potential im­ test is incompletely biserial. The foram wall is portance of fossil charophytes to stratigraphy is ~ · o- I aye red , and consists of an inner fibrous layer emphasized. One participant (Poyarkov) claims w d an outer granular layer; the wa ll is uniformly that the Devonian genus Umbel/ilia, previously perforated, a few foreign mineral grains have been placed in the Foraminifera, are actu all y charophyte orporated within the outer wall. The aperture utricles. [See Toomey and Teichert, 1965, for a pears to have been simply constructed. The discussion of the status of Umbel/ilia to date.] lotype could correspond to a megalospheric fi!Oll, whereas the cotype may possi bly correspond 24. PRANTL, F ., 1948, Recherches stratigraphiques , a microspheric form. et paleontologiques sur Ie Dinantien de la col­ This hi ghly organized foraminifer, from an line de Hady pres Brno (Moravie) : Vest. oubted Cambrian outcrop, gives reason to ex­ Stat. Geol. Inst., C.S.R., v. 23, p. 173-178 =1 the root of the Foraminifera in rock of Pre­ [in Czechoslovakian] . :ambrian age. Accordingly, chambered forms as It is reported that endothyroid-type smaller 62 TOOMEY AND l\I Al\j~T-B I B LI OG RAPHY OF PA LIDO%O IC NON 1"USUL IN ID F O R A~\ll N IFER A. A DD. 4

foraminifers occur in the Upper Devonian (Fam­ specimens of Sorosphaera and Minammodytes? ennian) deposits of western Czechoslovakia. also occur within the Owen foraminiferal suite. This note marks the first reported occurrence 25. TEICHERT, C., 1965, Devonian rocks and of the Soviet genus Paracaligel/a from North Am­ paleogeography of central Arizona: U. S. erica, and this is only the second instance in which Geo!. Survey Prof. Paper 464, 181 p., 32 pI., both agglutinated and calcareous Upper Devonian 40 text-fig., 8 tables. foraminifers have been reported from the same The writer presents a detailed study of the stratigraphic horizon. Devonian rocks of central Arizona. Of especial in_ terest is the reported occurrence of Umbel/a [now 27. TOOMEY, D. F., 1965, A unique Upper Devo­ generally regarded as Umbe/lilla; see Loeblich and nian Umbel/ilia from the Williston Basin of Tappan, 1961] in the Jerome Member of the Late Montana: Contr. Cushman Found. Foram. Frasnian Martin Formation. There is an excellent Research, v. 16, pI. 4, p. 144-147, pI. 24. discussion and description of the Arizona forms, Thin-sections prepared from two well cores their local distribution and reported worldwide oc­ penetrating the Upper Devonian (Frasnian) Du­ currences on pages 103-105. Also included is a perow Formation of northeastern Montana have lucid resume on the nomenclature and possible tax­ yielded many specimens of a unique Devonian onomic affinities of Umbel/ilia. Tbe writer sug­ foraminifer that is probably con specific with the gests that Umbel/ina is best regarded as an organ­ Russian form Umbel/ilia bel/a (Maslov). The Du­ ism of uncertain taxonomic position that may rep­ perow specimens differ from previously described resent either a new group of Protista or may have forms by the possession of well developed lateral algal affinities. The writer doubts that Umbellina nodose projections. This unique morphological is a foraminifer [see Toomey, 1965, for a divergent characteristic has not been mentioned or illustrated opinion]. in any of the earlier descriptions. It is suggested Thin-section photomicrographs of randomly that these projections may possibly have aided in cut Umbel/ilia are shown on plates 20 and 21. stabilizing the mature organism for an attached ben­ There are also drawings of representative thin­ thonic existence. Only specimens that appear to be section cuts of Umbellina and a series of drawings mature forms show well developed nodose projec­ showing a suggested successive growth-stage series tions. on figures 39 and 40. The Duperow umbellinids are found in rocks classified as intraclastic lime wackestones. The as­ 26. TOOM EY, D. F ., 1965, Upper Devonian Fo­ sociated biota consists of amphiporoids, echino­ raminifera from the Lime Creek Formation dermal debris, brachiopod fragments and ostra­ of northcentral Iowa (Abstract): Geo!. Soc. codes. Both the biota and lithology are thought to America, Program Annual Meeting Kansas be indicative of shallow water marine conditions. City, Missouri, p. 175. A brief resume of reported occurrences of A 40-foot sequence of lower Upper Dev­ Umbel/ilia, a list of described species, and a plate onian Lime Creek Formation (Cerro Gordo and of thin_section photomicrographs are also included. Owen Members) near Rockford, northcentral Iowa, [Coni I and Lys, 1964, report Umbel/ilia from the has yielded a significant suite of calcareous and Belgian Lower Carboniferous (Tournaisian-Tnl.)] agglutinated foraminifers. The 37 feet of Cerro Gordo silty fossilifer­ 28. YANG-SH EN, S. 1961, Famennian deposits in ous shale, with thin beds of argillaceous limestone, the Beleuty River region: Akad. Nauk is dominated by the abundance of Nanicel/a gal/o­ S.S.S.R., Doklady, v. 137, no. 2, p. 403-406 wayi (Thomas). Other forms, notably Semitex­ [in Russian]. rularia, and Moravammina occur only rarely. An The writer notes that the Upper Devonian indeterminate agglutinated foraminifer appears to (Famennian) silicified and dolomitized limestones be restricted to the more argillaceous limestone in­ from central Kazakhstan, U.S.S.R., contain the tervals. following smaller foraminifers: Parathurammilla The overlying 3-foot stromatoporoid-bear­ ex. gr. cushmani, Tourllayella sp., Septatournayel/a ing limestone of the Owen Member carries a rel­ sp. aff. S. milluta, Septaglom ospirallel/a sp. aff. S. atively abundant calcareous foraminiferal assem­ primaeva, Elldothyra sp. aft. E . alltiqua. blage dominated by Eonodosaria and Paracaligel/a; Tikhinel/a and Nallicel/a occur less commonly. The agglutinated foraminiferal assemblage is com­ B. LATE PALEOZOIC FORAMINIFERA posed principally of an undescribed ad nate?, sub­ 29. AISENVERG, D. E. and BRAZHNIKOVA, N . E., globose form closely allied to those genera now de_ 1964, Donetz Basin analogues of Etroeungt scribed under the family Saccamminidae. A few strata: 5th. Internal. Congr. on the Stral. and CONTRIB t: TION~ FROM THl<:; CU~ HA'I AN FOUNDATION F OR F ORAl\UN IFERAL RESEARCH 63

Geol. of the Carboniferous, Paris, 1963, C. R., 33. BOGUSH, O. 1. and JUFER EV, O. V., 1960, Some v. I, p. 263 -272, 3 pI., [in English]. new species of Tournaisian Foraminifera Donetz Basin analogues of the Etroeungt from Kara-Tau and the western spurs of Ala­ strata are the deposits of the Novotroitsky Horizon Tau: Paleont. Zhur., No.4, p. 16-27, I pI., 1 (Zone Clta). These deposits contain a mixed table [in Russian]. Devonian-Lower Carboniferous microfauna and From the Lower Carboniferous (Tournaisi­ fossi l plants. An analysis of the entire fauna and an) ror.ks of Kara-Tau and the western spurs of flora of the Novotroitsky Horizon shows that along Ala-Tau, Soviet Union, ,a microfauna of 10 new with the surviving Devonian forms and numerous species of smaller foraminifers is described and il­ endemics are a great number of genera and species lustrated by thin-section photomicrographs. The of Lower Carboniferous aspect. This circumstance, new species are: Septatournayella praesegmentata, as well as the transgressive nature of the deposits, Plectogyra baidjansaica, P. rectiformis, P. orgailysa­ is evidence of the Carboniferous age of the Novo­ ica, P. zakharovi, P. belmasarica, P. turkestanica, [roitsky Horizon and its analogues. It is significant P. melllleri, Quasiendothyra umbonata, and Plano­ that typically Devonian forms, unknown in the elldothyra turlanica. Lower Carboniferous, i.e. representatives of the genera Rauserilla, Umbellilla, Cribrosphaeroides, 34. BOGUS H, O. 1. and JUF EREV, O. V., 1961, Lay­ Paracaligella and the form Septatournayella rau­ ers with Endothyra communis in Karatau and sera e Lipina, are encountered in the Novotroitsky in the western spurs of the Talass Alatau: Horizon. Moscow Soc. Nat., Bull., v. 36, no. 3, p. Excellent thin-section photomicrographs of 89-101, 2 tables [in Russian with English ab­ representative Lower Carboniferous Etroeungt stract]. smaller foraminifers are given on Plate I. On the basis of previously described smaller foraminifers, brachiopods, and corals, the writers 30. BARROlS, C., 1902, Sur les Foraminiferes des have been able to delineate accurately the Upper phtanites Carboniferes du Boulonnais: Ann. Devonian-Lower Carboniferous boundary in Kar­ Soc. Geol. du Nord, v. 31 , p. 40-42 [in atau and in the western spurs of the Talass Alatau, French]. U.S.S.R. The most diagnostic faunal element is Chert nodules that have been reworked into the flood occurrence of the smaller foraminifer Upper Jurassic limestones of France are now dated Elldothyra communis Rauser-Chernoussova. The as Lower Carboniferous (Visean) on the presence faunal data, both microfaunal and megafaunal, for of abundant Elldothyra, Textularia [would now be this interval is concisely presented on two tables. referred to Palaeotextularia], and Va/vulilla. 35. BOGUSH, O. 1. and JUFER EV, O. V., 1962, 31. BAYKAL, F. and KAYA, 0., 1963, Allgemeine Foraminifers and stratigraphy of the Carbon­ Stratigraphie des Karbons in der Umgebung iferous deposits in Karatau and Talasskiy von Istambul : Bull. Min. Res. & Explor. Inst. Alatau: Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Dept. of the Turkey, No. 61, p. 1_10,2 pI., [in German]. Siberian Inst. Geology and Geophysics, 234 The writer notes that the Lower Carbonifer­ p. , 9 pI., charts, [in Russian]. ous silicified shales and limestones of Cebecikoy, From the Lower Carboniferous deposits of in the vicinity of Istanbul, Turkey, contain a rich Karatau and Talasskiy, U.S.S.R., a microfauna of microfauna consisting of representatives of the fol­ 144 species of smaller foraminifers, of which 21 lowing genera: Tetrataxis, Glomospira, Ammodis­ are new, is fully described and illustrated by thin­ CIIS, cf. H emigordius, Endothyra, Bradyina, Val­ section photomicrographs. A diverse fusulinid ..,t/illella, G lomospirella, A rchaediscus, and the microfauna is also described and illustrated. The ius ulinid Eostaffella. No illustrations or descrip­ new smaller foraminifers are: Archaesphaera sule­ ti ons are given. imanovi, Parathurammina bella, P. radiosphaerica, P. pachysplwerica, Bisphaera compressa, B. allg­ : 1. BOGusH, O. 1.,1961, Lasiodiscus alaicus n. sp., ulata, Paracaligella paraspinosa, Quasielldothyra A Late Carboniferous foraminifer: Paleont. com pta, Planoendothyra planispiralis, Plectogyra Zhur. No.3, p. 122-123, I text-fig., [in Rus­ lata, P. parasamarica, P. fillctata, P. kostobensis, P. sian]. hOll esta, P. talassica, Tetrataxis lata [synonym; see One new species of smaller foraminifer, Spandel, 1901] Umbella clara, U. obscura, U.? Lasiodiscus alaicus, from the Late Carboniferous of vermis [name Umbella pre-occupied; should now U.S.S.R., is described and illustrated by rather be referred to the genus Umbellina, see Loeblich ;oar thin-section photomicrographs. This new and Tappan, 1961] Multiseptida akkusica, and ,.,e ies is reported from the Triticites-Quasifus­ Polyderma akkusica. ina Zone. Significant taxonomic changes include the 64 TOOMEY AND l\:lAi\LI<~T-B I B LI OGRAPHY OF PALEOZOIC NONFUSULIN ID FORAMINIFERA, ADD. 4

following: Eonodosaria? multiformis Lipina, 1950 39. CHINA, W. E., 1965, Opinion 724, Endothyra = Tikhinella multiformis (Lipina); Glom ospirella bowmani Phillips, [1846] (Foraminifera): pseudopulchra Lipina, 1955 = Brunsia pulchra validated under the plenary powers: Bull. Mikhailov; Glomospirella irregularis Lipina, 1955 Zool. Nomencl., v. 22, pI. I, p. 37-39. = Brunsia irregularis (Moeller); Plectogyra baid­ RULING .-(1) Under the plenary powers jansaica Bogush and leferev, 1960 = Quasiendo­ the following names are hereby suppressed for the thyra baidjansaica (Bogush and leferev) ; and purposes of both the Law of Priority and the Law Ammobaculites? pygmaells Malakhova 1954 = of Homonymy: Chemyshinellina pygmaea (Malakhova). (a) the generic name Endothyra Brown, 1843; 36. BOZORGNIA , F. and BANAFTI , S., 1964, Micro­ (b) the specific name bowmani Brown, facies and microorganisms of Paleozoic 1843, as published in the binomen Endothyra bow­ through Tertiary sediments of some parts of man;. Iran: National Iranian Oil Company, 22 p., (2) The generic name Elldothyra Phil­ 156 pI. , 1 geol. map, Tehran, Iran. lips, [1846] (gender: feminine), type-species, by Primarily an atlas of photomicrographs il­ monotypy, Endothyra bowmalli Phillips, [1846], lustrating representative microfacies and microor­ is hereby placed on the Official List of Generic ganisms from Paleozoic through Tertiary sediments Names in Zoology with the Name Number 1662. of Iran. Pertinent Permo-Carboniferous illustra­ tions (plates 6-41) contain many random-cut thin­ (3) The specific name bowmalli (emend. section photomicrographs of commonly occurring of bowmanni) Phillips, [1846], as published in the calcareous algae, smaller foraminifers and fusulin­ binomen Endothyra bowmalli, as interpreted by the ids from southeast Central Zagros and Assadabad, neotype designated by Loeblich & Tappan, 1964, (type-species of Elldothyra Phillips, [1846], is here­ Iran. by placed on the Official List of Specific Names in 37. CALDWELL, W. G . E. and CHARLESWORTH , Zoology with the Name Number 2060. H . A. K., 1962, Visean coral reefs in the ( 4) The generic name Elldothyra Brown, Bricklieve Mountains of Ireland: Proc. Geol. 1843 (as suppressed under the plenary powers in Assoc., v. 73, pt. 4, p. 359-382, pI. 14-15, 5 (I) above) is hereby placed on the Official Index text-fig. of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology Primarily a paper dealing with the Lower with the Name Number 1755. Carboniferous (Visean) lithostrotionid coral (5) The following species names are "reefs" in northeastern Ireland. Mention is made hereby placed on the Official Index of Rejected that many of the lower limes:ones of the Bricklieve and Invalid Specific Names in Zoology with the Group are mainly foraminiferal-polyzoan rocks Name Numbers specified: with ammodiscids, numerous endothyrids, palaeo­ (a) bowmani Brown, 1843, as published nodosariids, tetra tax ids and rare palaeotextulariids in the binomen Elldolh yra bowmani (as suppressed interspersed with fragmented polyzoans. Dr. R. H. under the plenary powers in (I) (b) above) (Name Cummings, who examined the foraminifers, noted No. 812); that except for a paucity of palaeotextulariids, the (b) bowmanni Phillips, [1846], as pub­ foraminiferal assemblages of the Bricklieve Group lished in the binomen Endothyra bowmallni (an compare with those which he has found in mid- to incorrect original spelling for bowmani, Phillips upper Visean strata in other parts of Ireland and [1846] (Name No. 813); on the British mainland. (c) bowmanii Brown, 1843, as published in the binomen Endothyra bowmanii (an incorrect 38. CHERNYAK, G . Y. and SHVEDOV, N . A., 1960, original spelling for bowmani, Endothyra, Brown, A framework of the Lower Carboniferous 1843) (Name No. 814) . stratigraphy of the Taimyr Peninsula: Paleo. and Biostrat. of the Soviet Arctic, Geol. Res. 40. CONDIT, D. D., RAGGATT, H. G., and RUDD, Ins!., Min. Geol. and Nat. Conserv., v. 3, E. A., 1936, Geology of Northwest Basin, Leningrad, p. 11-23 [in Russian]. Western Australia: Am. Assoc. Petroleum The Lower Carboniferous rocks of Taimyr Geologists, Bull., v. 20, no. 8, p. 1028-1070, Peninsula, U .S.S.R., can be subdivided into five 7 text-fig. biostratigraphic zones on the basis of brachiopods From the Permian Callytharra Limestone at and foraminiferal assemblages (all previously de­ its type locality at Callytharra Spring on the Woo­ scribed species). It is noted that the lower two ramel River, Western Australia, 16 species of zones are particularly rich in foraminifers which smaller foraminifers, all previously described, are suggest a Tournaisian age. listed. Representatives of the following genera are CONTRIBt.; TIONS FROM THE CUR Hl\1Al~ F OUNDATI.ON FOR 1"ORAMINIFERAL HESEARCH 65 present: Denlalina, Spandeloides, Trepeilopsis, iferous age; however, a few forms are described Calcilomella , Slacheia , Ammodiscus, Palaeobi­ from the Upper Devonian (Fammenian) and the gellerilla, Frolldicufaria, Rudilaxis, Globivalvulilla, Namurian. The stratigraphic significance of the and Telralaxis. microfauna is discussed in detail and excellent phylogenetic-lineage charts are given for the En­ 41. CONIL, R. , 1960, Le Tournaisien de la gare dothyridae and the Archaediscidae. d'Yvoir: Bull. Soc. Geol. de Belgique, v. 69, no. 2, p. 277-294 [in French]. The new forms are: Bisphaera irregl/laris The writer mentions that Glomospira, Hy­ Birina var. gigalliea n. var., B. oblonga, B. ovoidea, perammina, Pleclogyra and Spiropleclammina oc­ B. variabilis var. variabilis n. sp., n. var., B. vari­ cur in the Lower Carboniferous (upper Tourn­ abilis var. bulbosa n. var., EOluberilina firmala, aisian) rocks of the Moligneec Valley, Belgium. Umbella cUlis, U. globosa [now referred under the [M amet (personal communication) states that none genus Umbellina ; see Loeblich and Tappan, 1961 , of these genera are present in this region ; correct p. 284; this marks the first reported occurrence of Pachy­ generic taxa are Pseudoglomospira, Earlandia, this genus in post-Devonian rocks (Tn 1)] splwera dervillei n. gen., P. polydermoides, Diplo­ Endolhyra-Spinoendolhyra, and Palaeospiroplec­ sphaerina (?) dellliculala, D. insigllis, D. lampro­ lammina.] derma, D. varialls, Quasipolyderma n. gen., Earlalld­ 42. CONIL, R., 1963 , Interpretion micropaleon­ ine/la (?) deform is, Paracaligella alliropovi Lipina tologique de quelque sondages de Campine: var. jlorellll ensis n. var. , A mmodiscl/s bellus Bull. Soc. Geol. de Belgique, v. 72, no. 2, Malak hova var. lell uis n. var., Glomospira brevi­ p. 123-135, I pI., 2 text-fig., [in French]. spira, G. (?) crassa, G. jlexuosa, G. jaclala, G. oval­ In this preliminary note the writer reports is Malakhova var. persecula n. var., G. recessa, G. the occurrence of abundant smaller foraminifers versa, Glomospirella spirillilloides (Grozdilova and from wells that penetrated the Lower Carbonifer­ Glebovskaia) var. longa n. var., G. (?) valida, ous (Visean) sediments of Campine, Belgium. It A mmobaculiles (?) dinantii, Glomospirallella ell­ is shown that from the lower Visean sequence pre­ dOlhyroides Dain var. avesnensis n. var., G. (?) viously described species of the genera Pachy­ exigua, G. horioni, Lituotubella glomospiroides sphaera, Pleclogyra , Glomospirella, and A rchaedis­ Rauser-Chernousova var. scalaeformis n. var., Sep­ cus are common. In the middle Visean sediments labrullsiina (?) comblailli, S. crassisepla, S. kraillica species of Pleclogyra , A rchaedisCl1s, Permodiscus, (Lipina) var. globosa n. var., S. mullivolula, S. pro­ and Propermodiscus occur only irregularly; in the ducla, Seplaglomospirallella complallata, Cribro­ V2b horizon massive A rchaediscl/s kreslovnikovi slomum lecomplei new name, C. obliquum, C. Rauser is a conspicuous microfaunal element. The slriclum, Palaeotexlularia lipinae new name, Spir­ upper Visean sediments are characterized by an opleclammilla larda, Telralaxis barklwlovae Groz­ abundance of various species of the genus A rc/we­ dilova and Lebedva var. cOlldrusialla n. var., T. disCl/S in association with species of HOlVchilla, barklwlovae Grozdilova and Lebedva var. pigra n. Telralaxis, Lill/oll/bella , Endolhyrallopsis, Janis­ var., T . compaclus, T. depressus, T . eiegans, T . ex_ cI,ewskilla, and Valvl/lillella . Representative small­ omalus, T. fluxus, T. gradi, T. mirus, T. obliquus, er foraminifers are illustrated by excellent thin­ T. pallae, T. paramillimus Vissarionova var. aperla section photomicrographs. n. var., T. pelasi, T. pressulus Malakhova var. giganlea n. var., T. pusillus, T. rugosus, T. subcyl­ -13 . CON IL , R. and Lvs, M., 1964, Materiaux pour illdricus, Valvulinella lalissima, V. (?) primaeva, I'etude micropaleontologique du Dinantien de Archaediscus celsus, A. clams var. clara n. sp., n.

la Belgique et de la France (Avesnois). Pt. var ' J A , clara var. lala n, var ' J A. compfallalus, A. I-Al gues et Foraminiferes and PI. 2-Foramin­ componens, A. cOll vexus Grozdilova and Lebedva iferes (suite) : Mem. Inst. Geol. Univ. Lou­ var. deC/illala n, var., A. COT/IUa, A. crux, A , cy rlus, va in , v. 23 , 335 p., 42 pI. , 33 text-fig., [in A. decussalus, A . demalleli, A. depressus, A. gigas French]. Rauser-Chernousova var. allgusta n. var., A. gigas A monographic study of the Foraminifera Rauser-Chernousova var. densaspira n. var., A. I both smaller Foraminifera and Fusulinidae) of gigas Rauser-Chernousova var. serojlexa n. var., A. lhe Dinant Basin of Belgium and France. A total gigas Rauser-Chernousova var. subangusla n. var., of 338 species are considered. Of these there are A. globosus var. globosa n. sp., n. var., A . globosus 195 new forms, of which 2 are new genera, 126 var. maglla n. var., A. gracilis, A. illflexus, A. kar­ 3re new species, 67 are new varieties, and 2 are new reri Brady var. aucla n. var., A. karreri Brady var. ames. All of the foraminifers are illustrated by crassa n. var., A. karreri Brady var. spira n. var., superb thin-section photomicrographs. The micro­ A. kreslovnikovi Rauser-Chernousova var. ampla n. fauna is dominantly from rocks of Lower Carbon- var., A. kreslovnikovi Rauser-Chernousova var. 66 TOOl\H~Y AND l\:lAI\lET- B[BLJOGRAPHY OF PALEOZOIC z-.;ONF liSULINID ltORAM1NIFERA, ADD. "'

ovala n. var., A. kreslovllikovi Rauser-Chernousova var., P. solida, P. spira, P. sllperba (Malakhova) var. piesis n. var., A. kreslovnikovi Rauser_Chern­ var. varva n. var., P. uva, P. valida, P. (?) versala, ousova var. redila n. var., A. macer, A. mohae, A. P. waulsorli, and Quasielldolhyra kobeilllsalla molleri Rauser-Chernousova var. gralldis n. var., ( Rauser-Chernousova) var. subslricla n. var. A. mulalls, A. pulvillus, A. soleei var. soleei n. var., A. soleei var. hirla n. var., A. leres, A. Iriangulus, 44. CONIL, R., Lys, M. and MAUVIER, A., 1964, Criteres micropaleontologiques essentiels des A . valens, A. ver/ells, Neoarchaedisclis incer/lis Formations-Types du Carbonifere (Dinan­ (Grozdilova and Lebedva) var. cam osa n. var., tien) du bassin Franco-Beige: 5th. Internat. Permodiscus bucculelllus, P. rOlulldus N. Cerny­ Congr. on the Stral. & Geol. of the Carbonifer­ seva var. elollgala n. var., P. rOlulldus N. Cerny­ ous, Paris, 1963 , C.R., v. 1, p. 325-332, 2 seva var. illflala n. var., Plalloarchaediscus cOll cill­ text-fig ., [in French]. IlUS, Propermodiscus defleclells, P. lellitorlus, P. A brief discussion and a series of listings of (?) mixlus, P. IIudalUs, P. Ob/OllgIlS, P. rigells, the characteristic microfossils utilized in identify­ Chemyshillella (?) aspera, C. (?) depressa, C. (?) ing Lower Carboniferous stratigraphic horizons yvoiri, Globoelldolhyra delmeri, G. (?) ordillala, within the Dinant Basin of France and Belgium. Plalloelldolhyra aljulovica (Reitiinger) var. egregia The microfossils found to be most useful for strati­ n. var., Pleclogyra acalllha, P. agalhis, P. arclala, graphic zonation are: algae, smaller foraminifers, P. bialoni, P. bradyi (Mikhailov) var. alIa n. var., fusulinids, ostracodes, and conodonts [see Conil P. bradyi (Mikhailov) var. s/ibmissa n. var., P. bl/I­ and Lys, 1964, for a monographic treatment of bisepla, P. calcar, P. callosa, P. campillei, P. chari­ this microfauna]. essa, P. compacla, P. cOllcavacamerala Lipina var. alIa n. var., P. COll cavacamerala Lipina var. globosa n. var., P. cOllvexa (Rauser-Chernousova) var. 45. CONIL, R., Lys, M. and PAPROTH, E., 1964, Localites et coupes types pour l'etude du brevisepla n. var., P. cOllvexa (Rauser-Chernouso­ va) var. crescells n. var., P. COllvexa (Rauser­ Tournaisien Inferieur: Roy. Acad. Belgium Mem., v. 15, pI. 4, 87 p., 14 pis., 5 text-fig. Chernousova) var. slricla n. var., P. cummillgsi, P. [in French]. cUll eisepla, P. delepillei, P. demissa, P. delldrei, P. An initial micropaleontological study of the direc/(/, P. exelikla var. ampla n. sp., n. var., P. Lower Carboniferous (Lower Tournaisian) type exelikla var. exelikla n. var., P. (?) eXlIberalls, P. sections of Belgium, and related areas in France (?) {ierollellsis, P. foeda, P. freyri, P. fusca, P. gib­ and West Germany. Particular attention is paid to bera, P. hOll esla Slykova var. di/alala n. var., P. the use of smaller foraminifers in stratigraphic del­ humuliforllix, P. ill/rojaclans, P. kaisilli, P. k osve ll~ ineation of these sections. One plate of thin-section sis (Lipina) var. m osalla n. var., P. kuhllei, P. laxa, photomicrographs of characteristic smaller foram­ P. lellsi, P. libra liS, P. lim burgi, P. michoti, P. inifers is given (pI. 12). [See Conil and Lys, 1964, mobilis, P. mucrollala , P. mllllila, P. oblrita, P. paracoslifera (Lipina) var. plagia n. var., P. para­ for a monographic treatment of the Lower Carbon­ kosvellsis (Lipina) var. immillllla n. var., P. para­ iferous microfauna of this region.] kosvensis (Lipina) var. lIigra n. var., P. parakos­ vellsis (Lipina) var. slrllllialla n. var., P. pauli, P. 46. CoNIL, R. and Lys, M., 1965, Precisions perulldala, P. pielolli, P. prisca (Rauser-Chernous­ complementaires sur la Micropaleontologie ova and Reitlinger) var. dellliclliala n. var., P. du Dinantien: Geol. Soc. Belgique, Ann., v. prisca (Rauser-Chernousova and Reitlinger) var. 88, Bull. 3, p. 23-44, 3 pIs. [in French]. devia n. var., P. prisca (Rallser-Chernousova and The writers describe seven new species and Reitlinger) var. illlricala n. var., P. prisca ( Rauser­ varieties of smaller foraminifers from the Lower Chernousova and Reitlinger) var. parva n. var., Carboniferous (Upper Tournaisian-Yisean) rocks P. prisca (Rauser-Chernousova and Reitlinger) var. of Belgium. All forms are illustrated by excellent pressa n. var., P. prisca (Rauser-Chernousova and thin-section photomicrographs. This microfauna Reitlinger) var. scallSa n. var., P. prisca (Rauser­ gives added preciseness to the stratigraphic correla­ Chernousova and Reitlinger) var. ulldala n. var., tions and distribution of nine other Carboniferous P. producla, P. pseudorolayi, P. roslrala, P. rolayi foraminifers previously described from Belgium, (Lebedva) var. slricla n. var., P. (?) rudis, P. France, Soviet Union, and England, as well as to .I'l/Ieli, P. sam solli, P. similis (Rallser-Chernousova the distribution of the blue_green alga Girvallella and Reitlinger) var. crllslala n. var., P. similis ducii Wethered. (Rauser-Chernollsova and Reitlinger) var. illops The new forms are: Lillloluba (?) gral'ala, n. var., P. simi/is (Rause .... Chernousova and Reit­ Haplophragmella lelraloculi Rauser-Chernousova linger) var. porrecla n. var., P. simi/is (Rauser­ var. m odica, Spiropleclammilla brevicula, T elralax­ Chernousova and Reitlinger) var. Iurgescells n. is emacialus, Va/vl/lillella cOllciliala (Ganelina) CONTRlBUTIONS FROM TH E CUSH).lA.:." FOUNDATION F OR l;'ORAl'llNIFERAL RESEARCH 67 var. pulla, A rchaedisclls rhombus, and Cribrospira mentioned as occurring in scattered Carboniferous pallsa. outcrops in southern Algeri a, North Africa. Taxonomic changes include the following: Palaeotextu/aria diversa Malakhova, 1956, and 50. D ERV ILLE, H., 1950, De quelques Calci­ Spirop/ectammilla aff . mirabilis Conil and Lys, spheres de nature vegetale: Bull. Geol. Soc. 1964, = Spirop/ectammina brevicu/a. France, Paris, 5th ser., v. 20, p. 467-478, pI. 24, 2 tables [in French]. 47. CON IL, R. and DUPONT, H., 1965, Remar­ From the Visean rocks (Calcaire de Bach­ ques sur I'extension verticale des facies Waul­ ant) of A vesnois, France, 2 new genera and 6 new sortiens: Geol. Soc. Bel gique, Ann., v. 88 , species of "calcispheres" are described and illus­ Bull. 3, p. 45-49, I text-fig. , I chart [in trated by thin-section photomicrographs. The new French]. forms are: Dip/osplraera mastop/lOra, D. sphaerica, A stud y of the Lower Carboniferous (Visean) D. ovoidea, D. mucronata [the name Dip/osphaera smaller Foraminifera (all have previously been de­ preoccupied; Derville, 1952, renamed form Dip/o­ scribed) present in the "black mottled limestones" sp/werilla], Callcel/us cancel/atus, and C. robustus of Belgi um, has shown that they are correctly [the name Callcel/us preoccupied; Derville, 1952, pl aced within the Waulsortian facies. The age of renamed form Pa/aeocancellus]. [Conil and Lys, these limestones varies from the base of the Visean 1964, regard the above forms as foraminifers. Sig­ to Vlb (Zone of Permodiscus rotulldus N. Cern. nificantly, howe ver, is the striking resemblance of var. e/ongata Conil - P/ectogyra illfiata (Upina) Dip/osp/werina to Tuberitilla.] var. alla/oga Malakhova) . 51. DERVILLE, H., 1952, A propos de Calcispberes 48. CON KIN , J. E., CONKIN, B. M. , and PIK E, (Rectification): C.R.S. Soc. Geol. France, 6th ser., v. 2, p. 236-237 [in French]. J. W. , 1965, Mi ssissi ppian Foraminifera of the United States. Part 2 - The Hannibal Forma­ The writer notes that the genera Dip/o­ sp/wera and Callcel/us, as described in 1950, are tion of northwestern Missouri and western Ulinois: Micropaleontology, v. 11 , no. 3, p. preoccupied. He now redefines them as Dip/o­ 335-359, 2 pI., 14 text-fig., 27 tables. sphaerilla and Pa/aeocallcel/us [see Conil and Lys, 1964, who regard them as foraminifers]. The agglutinated foraminiferal microfauna of the Lower Mississippian (Kinderhookian) Han­ 52. D UNHAM, R. J., 1955, Pennsylvanian conglom­ nibal Formation composed of siltstones and shales erates, structure and orogenic history of Lake is described from 8 localities in Missouri and 5 Classen area, Arbuckle Mountains, Okla­ localities in Ulinois and is found to consist of 30 homa: Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists, species. Only one species is new - B/astammilla Bull., v. 39, no. 1, p. 1-30, 8 text-fig. eisella cki; and the genus B/astammilla Eisenack, The Pennsylvanian (late Desmoinesian) up_ 1932, is for the fir st time recognized outside of the per Black Chert Member of the Deese Formation Baltic Region, its geologic range extended upward in the Arbuckle Mountains, southern Oklahoma, into the Lower Mississippian. On the basis of the contains Bradyilla, G/yphostom ella, Tetrataxis, contained agglutinated foraminifers the Hannibal Poly taxis, Deckerel/a, Cribrostomum, Cribrogell er­ Formation is thought to be Kinderhookian in age i/la, Climacammi/la, and To!ypamnlilla. and is most closely related to the Northview Formation of southwestern Missouri. 53. EASTON, W. H., 1943 , The fauna of the Pitkin One new taxonomic change is included: Formation of Arkansas: Jour. Paleontology, Psammosphaera? sp. B. Conkin and Conkin, 1964, v. 17, no. 2, p. 125-154, pI. 21-24, 7 text-fig. is now pl aced under the new species B/astammilla Elldothyra sp. is shown on a faunal listing eisellacki Conkin, Conkin, and Pike, 1965. of the Upper Mississippian (Chesterian) Pitkin The microfauna is illustrated by whole­ Formation of northern Arkansas. pecimen photomicrographs. 54. GLlNTZBOECKE L, C. and RABATE, J ., 1964, 49 . DELEAU, P., AND MARI E, P., 1954, Les cal­ Microfaunes et microfacies du Permo-Car­ caires oolithiques du Namurian du Sud-Oran­ bonifere du sud Tunisien: lnt. Sed. Petro­ ais et leur faune de Foraminiferes: Soc. Geol. graphical Ser., v. 7, 45 p., 108 pI., 6 text-fig., de France, C. R., No.2, p. 225-226, [in Brill, Leiden, Netherlands [in French with French]. English and German abstracts]. A few previously described smaller foram­ Primarily a su mmary of the microfac ies ife rs (Elldotlr yra sp. cf. E. bowmalli , Spirillilla and microfaunas encou.ntered in deep wells that . cf. S. radiata, Orobias sp. [probably EostafJella penetrated the Upper Paleozoic rocks of southern .x Pseudoelldothyra] , and Arc/wediscus sp. ) are Tunisia, Africa. The rock types are ill ustrated by 68 TOO~lEY AND MAMET- BIBLI OGRAPHY O F P A Lfo~OZOIC !'O!'FCSULI N ) 0 FORAl\fIN IFEHA, ADD. 4 numerous thin-section photomicrographs containing ell sis, A. vischerellsis, A. donetziallus, A . angulatus, characteristic smaller foraminifers. Three Permo­ A. basllkiricus Krestovnikov and Theodorovitch Carboniferous microfaunal provinces have been var. pressula, A . latispiralis, A. gregorii var. greg­ distinguished in southern Tunisia. These are as orii n. sp., n. var' J A . gregorii var. acuti/OTll1is, A. follows: ( I ) the Upper Permian of the Djebel Te­ stilus, and A. millimus. All species are illustrated baga in which algae and fusulinids are abundant by representative thin-section photomicrographs. in addition to numerous smaller foramini fers of the genera Hemigordius, Ammodiscus, Globivalvuli"a, 57. HARTL EY, J. 1., 193 6, On the occurrence of Tetrataxis, Lil/gulil/a, Geil/itzil/a, Padal/gia, Spal/­ Saccamil/opsis jusulil/alormis in Northern Ire­ delil/a, Glom ospira, Climacammil/a, Lasiodisclls land: Irish Nat. Jour., v. 6, p. 95-97. and Lasiotrochlls; (2) the Reef F acies of the Upper The writer reports the occurrence of the Permian as found in the Bir Soltana Area where foraminifer Saccamillopsis lusulil/alormis (M'Coy) fu sulinids and algae are very abundant in addition in rocks of Lower Carboniferous age (approximate to many of the smaller foraminiferal genera as li st­ D2 Horizon) in County Tyrone and County Down, Northern Ireland . It is noted that S. fuslilil/aformis ed above; (3) the Permo-Carboniferous in the (M'Coy) is found in association with Archaediscus Marginal Gefara where one zone in the Upper karreri lusulina­ Permian carries Streblospira, Hemigordills, and (Brady). It would appear that S. Globivalvlllina, and where the Middle Permian lormis (M'Coy) is a fairly reliable "index fossil;" microfauna is not characteristic but does contain the writer suggests that in such an area as north­ Hemigordills, A gathammil/a, Calcitom el/a [prob­ eastern Ireland , where the coral-brachiopod assem­ ably Hedraites; see Henbest, 1963], and Globival- blage is poorly developed and where shales and 1'1I1il/a; the Lower Permi an is distinguished by rep­ sandstones frequently replace the more calcareous resentative fusulinid genera, whereas the Upper types of rock, this form may be of definite zonal Carboniferous is characterized by Textulariidae, value. Globivalvlllil/a, Bradyil/a, and Tliberitina; the Mus­ 58. IRELAND, H. A ., 1963, Insoluble residues for covian yields a very rich and abundant microfauna research: Internal. Geo!. Congr., Rept. 21st consisting of Globivalvlllina, EI/dothyra, Plectogyra , Session Norden, PI. 27, p. 233-241, 3 text-fig. Tetrataxis, A mmovertel/a , Climacammina, Palaeo­ The writer describes the history of and the textlilaria, and Tliberitilla ; and the Namurian is techniques involved in prepariDg insoluble residues characterized by the occurrence of A rc/wedisclls for their contained microfauna, i.e., principall y ag­ accompanied by representative Palaeotextulariid ae, glutinated foraminifers, conodonts, and scolecod­ Elldothyra, Plectogyra, and Globivalvlllilla. onts. Attention is called to the large suites of ag­ glutinated Pennsylvani an and Silurian foraminifers 55. GOODMAN, A. J ., 1945, Limestone reservoir that the writer has previously described (Ireland, conditions in Turner Valley Oil Field, Al­ 1939, 1955). Two text-figures of drawings illus­ berta, Canada: Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geol­ trating representative Pennsylvanian and Silurian ogists, Bul!., v. 29, no. 8, p. 1156-1168, 10 Foraminifera from Kansas and Oklahoma respec­ text-fig. tively are also given. The Mississippian "black limestones", com_ posed primarily of crinoid and bryozoan frag­ 59. ISHII, K., 1961 , Fusulinids from the middle ments, contains Elldothyra, A mmodisclls [probably Upper Carboniferous Itadorigawa Group in Toumayel/a], and Glomospira. Thin-section photo­ western Shikoku, Japan. Pt. 3 Stratigraphy micrographs of a few specimens are included and concluding remarks: Osaka City Univ., (text-fig. 6, 7, and 9) . Inst. Polytechnics, Jour., ser. G , v. 5, p. 31- 52, 3 text-fig., I table. 56. GROZDlLOVA, L. P., 1953, Fossil Foraminifera The Middle Upper Carboniferous Itadorig­ in the U.S.S.R.-Archaediscidae: All-Union awa Group of western Shikoku, Japan, has been Petroleum Scientific-Research Geo!. Explora­ subdivided into three fossil zones on the basis of tion Inst., Trudy, Pub!. 74, p. 67-115, 4 pI., 5 distinctive fusulinid assemblages; however, the text-fig., 1 table [in Russian]. writer reports the following smaller foraminifers A discussion pertaining to the phylogeny as also occurring within this interval: and stratigraphic distribution of the Lower Carbon­ Itl fossil zone contains EI/dotl!yra sp., iferous smaller foraminifers of the family Arch­ Bradyil/a I/autiliformis Moller, Cribrostomum sp., aediscidae found in the Soviet Union is presented, and Textlilaria sp. along with the description of 52 species and vari­ It2 and Ita fossil zones contain Elldothyra eties presently referred under this family. Of these, sp., Bradyil1a sp. A, Cribrostomum sp., and Textul­ 9 species and 3 varieties are regarded as new. The aria sp. new forms are: A rc/wediscus COI/ VeXllS, A. velgur- Both the fusulinids and the smaller foram- CONTRIB U T1 0NS FROM THE CUSH :'IIA.J'\ FOUNDATION F OR FORAl\UNIFERAL RESEARCH 69 inifers are found in association with a relatively inifers, and (3) Siberian - with widely distributed common calcareous algal flora. unilocular foraminifers and rare Elldothyra. The second zone disappeared during the end of the 60. JOHNSON, 1. H., 1944, Paleozoic stratigraphy Tournaisian, whereas the Eurasian and Siberian of the Sawatch Range, Colorado: Geol. Soc. zones preserved their distinct faunal assemblages, America, Bull., v. 55, no. 3, p. 303-378, II although differing somewhat from earlier types. pI., 7 text-fig. During Visean time the Eurasian region was dis­ The smaller foraminifer Endothyra baileyi tinguished by abundant Endothyra, primitive fusu­ (Hall) [identified by HenbestJ is reported from the linids, and A rchaeodisclls; the Siberian zone was Mississippian Leadville Limestone of the Sawatch characterized by diverse Elldothyra, A rchaeodisclls, Range, Colorado. and rare primitive fusulinids. A newly delineated West-European zone contains A rchaeodisclls, Eostal­ 61. JOHNSON, J. H., 1945, Calcareous algae of the lelia, M ediocris, and Calcitornella [= HedraitesJ. upper Leadville Limestone near Glenwood Springs, Colorado: Geol. Soc. America, Bull., 65. KALMYKOVA, M. A., 1965, Biostratigraphic v. 56, no. 9, p. 829-848, 5 pI. , I text-fig. subdivision of the Permian of the Pin ega Representatives of the genus Elldothyra are River Basin by Foraminifera: Akad. Nauk the most abundant foraminifer represented in thin­ S.S.S.R., Doklady, v. 163, no. 5, p. 1221-1224, sections of the Mississippian Leadville Limestone I table [in Russian; English translation IN: near Glenwood Springs, Colorado. A number of DokJady ESS, Am. Geol. lnst., v. 163, no. other smaller foraminifers are also present in the 1-6, p. 61-64J. algal limestones, but not identified. A few endo­ The Lower Permian of the Pinega River thyrids are shown in some of the thin-section photo­ Basi n has been stratigraphically subdivided into micrographs of the algal specimens. six members on the basis of foraminifers (largely fusulinids, although a few previously described 62. JOHNSON , J. H., 1946, Mississippian algal smaller foraminifers are also used) and distinctive limestones from the vicinity of St. Louis, sed imentation rhythms. The lower four members Missouri: Jour. Paleontology, v. 20, no. 2, p. are assigned to the Asselian Stage, and the upper 166-171 , pI. 30. two to the Sakmarian Stage. Elldothyra sp. is recorded from a Missis­ sippian measured section of the lower Ste. Gene­ 66. KAMALETDINOV, M. A., 1965, More facts vieve (Meramecian) algal limestones at Maple­ about the geologic structure of the southern wood, St. Louis, Missouri. Urals: Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., DokJady, v. 162, no. 6, p. 1356-1359, 1 text fig., [in Russian; 63. JOHNSON, 1. H. and DANNER, W. R. , 1966, English translation IN: Doklady ESS, Am. Permian calcareous algae from northwestern Geol. lnst., v. 162, no. 1-6, p. 97-99, 1 text­ Washington and southwestern British Colum­ fig.J. bia: Jour. Paleontology, v. 40, no. 2, p. 424- Tectonic features of the southern Urals are 432, pI. 55-56, 1 text-fig., 6 tables. complicated and deep drilling indicates that the The smaller foraminifers Textularia, Glomo­ Upper Devonian-Lower Carboniferous sequence spira, and Tetrataxis are reported from the Late on the left bank of the Bol'shoy Ik has been thrust Permian (early Ochoan?) Marble Canyon Forma­ westward over the Middle Carboniferous carbonate tio n, Marble Range, British Columbia. rocks. Previously described smaller foraminifers of The foraminifer Pachyph/oia is reported, Upper Devonian (Fammenian), Lower Carbon­ in association with a Late Permian (Guadlupian) iferous, and Middle Carboniferous ages are utilized fus ulinid fauna, from the Stillaguamish Group in subdividing the sequence into a meaningful (Division I) San Juan Island, Washington. stratigraphic succession.

64 . JUFEREV, O. W. and BOGUSH, O. I., 1965, 67. KAPSTAN, V. KH ., and SAFAROV, E. I. , 1965, Basic regularities in the foraminiferal distri­ Discovery of indigenous Carboniferous sedi­ bution through Eurasia in Lower Carbonifer­ ments in Moldavia: Akad. Nauk S.s.S.R., ous time: Akad. Nauk S.S .S.R., Izvestia, Ser. Doklady, v. 161 , no. 3, p. 659-662, 2 text-fig. Geol. No. II, p. 98-108 [in RussianJ. [in Russian; English translation IN: DokJady The Lower Carboniferous of the Eurasian ESS Am. Geol. lnst., v. 161, March-April, :erritory has been subdivided into 3 zoogeographic 1965, p. 57-59, 2 text-fig.J. :egi ons on the basis of foraminiferal evidence. The first certain identification of Lower These are: (1) Eurasian - widespread develop- Carboniferous sediments in Moldavia, U.S.S.R., ent of Quasiendothyra, and Septatoumayella; (2) has been made by deep drilling in the area of the ussiall - with calcispheres and unilocular foram- Late Paleozoic foredeep of the Russian Platform. 70 TOOME Y AND MAMET-BIBLJOG RAPH Y OF PALEOZOIC NONF USULJN ID FORAMI N IFERA, ADD. 4

On the basis of a previously described smaller fo­ 72. KOCHANSKY-D EVIDE, V. , 1964, Die Fusulin­ raminiferal assemblage, identified by Reitlinger, iden und Kalkalgen des Jugoslavischen Kar­ the sediments are probably upper Tournaisian bons: 5th. Internat. Congr. on the Strat. and in age. Geol. of the Carboniferous, Paris, 1963 , C.R., v. 2, p. 513-518, 3 pI., 1 text-fig. [in German). 68. KELLETT, B. , 1943 , Permian ostracodes: Jour. Primarily a resume on the occurrence of Paleontology, v. 17, no. 6, p. 615-628. calcareous algae and fusulinids from the Middle Along with abundant Lower Permian ostra­ Carboniferous rocks of Yugoslavia. F loral and code faunas, the smaller foraminifers Climacam­ faunal lists are included in which a number of pre­ mina, Bradyina, and T etrataxis are noted as faunal viously described sm aller foraminifers are also associates. The distribution of the ostracodes and recorded. foraminifers is designated for specific areas of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. 73. KONOVALOVA , M. V., 1962, New Sakmarian species of small foraminifers from the Timan­ 69. KHVOVORA , I. Y., 1939, The Lower Carbon­ Petchora region : Paleont. Zhur., No.3, p. 16- iferous deposits of the occidental Urals within 23 , pI. 2, 3 [in Russian}. the limits of southern Bashkiria and northern Fifteen new species of smaller foraminifers Kazakhstan: Bull. Soc. Nat. de Moscou, n.s. , are described from the Lower Permian (Sakmarian­ v. 47, ser. geol., v. 17, no. 2-3 , p. 58-84, 1 Wolfcampian) rocks of the Timan-Petchora region pI. [in Russian}. of the Soviet Union. All forms are illustrated by The writer notes that the Bukharcha Series thin-section photomicrographs. The new species in the Sakmara, U.S.S.R., contains Archaedisclls are: Glomospira aquilollaris, G. ovalis [preoc­ karreri, Elldothyra ex. gr. bo wmalli, E. crassa, E. cupied; see Malakhova, 1956, p. 90} , G. illsiglla , globulus, Hyperammilla eiegalls, and H. vlIlgaris, Bradyilla delicata, B. omrica, B. ordillata, B. tur­ all of which are characteristic of a Lower Carbon­ gida, B. gralldiosa , Climacammilla obesa, C. IOllga, iferous (Visean) age. C. rara, C. durabilis, Globivalvlllilla paula, G. The Syzran beds, which contain abundant argllta and G. pergrata. [The legend for Plate 3 is A rchaediscus bashkiricus, are dated as Namurian not given.} in age.

70. KING, P. B., 1965, Geology of the Sierra 74. LAPK IN, I. Yu., 1961, The stratigraphy of the Diablo region, Texas: U. S. Geol. Survey Lower Permian south of the Russian Plat­ Prof. Paper 480, 185 p., 16 pI., 8 text-fig., form: Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Doklady, v. 137, 14 tables. no. 1, p. 143-145, I table [in Russian; English An excellent discussion of the geology of translation IN : Doklady ESS, Am. Geol. the Sierra Diablo region of west Texas. Tabulated Inst., v. 137, no. 1-6, p. 260-263, 1 table}. lists of Permian smaller Foraminifera, identified The stratigraphy of the Lower Permian de­ by Henbest, are given on Table 2 (Hueco Lime­ posits south of the Russian Platform, U.S.S.R., is stone ), and Table 8 (Victorio Peak Limestone). briefly summarized. The characteristic rock types Measured sections of the Permian sequence are present in this region and their included diagnostic also given, and smaller foraminifers and fusulinids microfauna (previously described species of fusu­ are noted when present. linids and smaller foraminifers) are listed.

71. KLUBOV, B. A., 1965, Discovery of Permian 75 . LETAvIN, A. I. and REDlCHKlN, N. A., 1962, sediments on Barents Island (Spitsbergen On the Upper Carboniferous and Lower Per­ Archipelago) : Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., v. 162, mian deposits in western Cis-Caucasus: Akad. no. 3, p. 629-631 [in Russian; English trans­ Nauk S.S .S.R., Doklady, v. 142, no. 4, p. 903- lation IN: Doklady ESS, Am. Geol. Inst., v. 905 [in Russian}. 162, no. 1-6, p. 49-50.}. The Hercynian basement rocks near Chel­ The discovery of Permian sedimentary rocks bas, Cis-Caucasus, U.S.S.R., are dated as Upper on Barents Island, as reported earlier (1963), is Carboniferous to Lower Permian on the basis of verified by an analysis of a diversified brachiopod the discovery of the followi ng smaller foraminifers : fauna. The previously described smaller foraminif­ Tetrataxis ex . gr. hemisphaerica, Hemigordius dis­ ers Nodosaria krotovi, N. sp. ct. N. fareimell, and coideus f. lata, Spiroplectammilla sp. cf. S. blll­ Geillitzilla spalldeli are also reported from this loides, Delltalilla ex . gr. bradyi, and Glomospira sp. sequence. It is believed that these rocks can be as­ signed to the base of the Upper Permian and are 76. LETAvIN, A. I., REDlcHKIN, N. A., and SAV EL'­ of somewhat older age than the Kazanian Stage YEVA, L. M., 1964, Lower Permian deposits of the Russian Platform. in the Crimean Steppe: Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., CONTRIBUT10NS FROM THE~ CUSH).lA.J...... FOUNDATION F OR FORAM1 N IFERAL RESEARCH 71

Doklady, v. 156, no. 2, p. 324-327, 1 text­ U.S.S.R. and in West Germany: Akad. Nauk fig., [in Russian]. S.S.S.R., v. 145, no. I, p. 164-165 [in Russian]. Fossiliferous Lower Permian rocks in the The writer briefly discusses and lists the Crimean Steppe indicate that the Late Paleozoic similarities and differences of the Lower Carbon­ Ciscaucasian Geosyncline extended far to the west, iferous (Tournaisian) foraminiferal assemblages embracing a considerable part of the Crimean present in the Soviet Union with those reported Mountains. From boreholes taken in the northern from West Germany. Crimean Peninsula a typical Lower Permian fo­ raminiferal assemblage, of previously described 79. LIPINA, O. A., 1963, On the evolution of the species, underlies Lower Cretaceous claystones. Tournaisian Foraminifera: Akad. Nauk The Foraminifera occur in limestones dated as S.S .S.R., Voprosy Mikropaleontologii, No.7, Lower Permian, and are similar to that from the p. 13-21 , 3 text-fig., 1 table, [in Russian]. northwestern margin of the Donbas. The writer lucidly discusses the evolution and phylogeny of the Lower Carboniferous fo­ 77. LIPINA, O. A., 1960, Tournaisian Foraminif­ raminiferal representatives of the families Tour­ era of the Russian Platform and the Urals: nayellidae and Endothyridae. International Geol. Congress, 21 sl. Session, Repts. of Soviet Geologists, Doklady sovet­ 80. LIPINA, O. A., 1964, Stratigraphie et limites skikh geologow problema, p. 48-55, 1 text­ du Tournaisien en U.R.S.S. d'apres les Fo­ fig ., [in Russian with English abstract]. raminiferes: 5th. Internal. Congr. on the The Lower Carboniferous (Tournaisian) Stral. and Geol. of the Carboniferous, Paris, Stage is characterized by the first appearance of 1963, C.R., v. 2, p. 539-551, 5 text-fig. [in abund ant multilocular foraminifers with calcare­ French]. ous-granular walls (Tournayellidae and Endothy­ The writer presents a comprehensive discus­ ridae). During Late Devonian time the planispiral sion of the stratigraphy and foraminiferal assem­ Tournayellidae developed two distinct evolutionary blages of the Lower Carboniferous (Tournaisian) lines: ( I) Toumayella, with a primary septation of the Soviet Union and compares the Soviet se­ stage characterized by constriction of the wall, and quence with that published for western Europe and (2) Septatoumayella, with short pseudosepta in North America. Accordingly, two zoogeographic the final volutions. The tournayell ids show progres­ microfaunal provinces are delineated: ( 1) a prov­ sive increase in size, so that by the end of Tour­ ince embracing eastern and western Europe, and naisian time gigantic forms with coarsely granular (2) a province comprising North America and a walls are rel atively common. During Visean time great part of Siberia. It is noted that there are three a sieve-like aperture was developed. The septa­ foraminiferal complexes present within the Tour­ tournayellids also show progressive increase in size nalslan; these are: (1) Septaglomospiranella­ by the end of Tournaisian time but do not develop Quasiel/dothyra, (2) Chernyslzinella, and (3) a sieve-like aperture in the Visean. Instead, an off­ Toumayella-Plectogyra. These foraminiferal com­ shoot - the carbonell ids - with an aperture dis­ plexes evolved through a beginning developmental placed towards the center of the septa develops stage followed by rapid expansion and ultimately from this line. culminating in extinction. The separation of the Endothyridae from One excellent intercontinental Tournaisian the Tournayellidae occurred in the Late Devonian correlation chart is also presented (text-fig. 2). ( Fammenian), but their respective origins are unknown. 81. LtPINA, O. A., 1965, Taxonomy of the Tour­ Endothyridae with unfixed generic indices nayellidae: Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Trudy, are widespread in the Upper Devonian. The quas i­ Geol. Insl., Trans., v. 130, Nauka Publ. Of­ endothyroids and the plectogyroids developed from fice, Moscow, 115 p., 24 pI., 4 text-fig., [in Ihis group. The plectogyroids developed two paral­ Russian]. lel lines: (1) a group with low volutions and a rel­ A monographic study on a complete revi­ atively large number of chambers, and (2) another sion of the systematics of the Lower Carboniferous group with high volutions and a relatively small Tournayellidae. All forms are illustrated by excel­ number of chambers. lent thin-section photomicrographs. In this revision It is thought that the development of all 1 genus, 9 subgenera, 19 species, 4 subspecies, and

S. (R ectoseptabrulIsiilla) postchusovellsis n. subge n. 85. MALAKHOVA , N. P., 1965, Permian Foramin­ n. sp., Septaglomospirallel/a (S.) com pressa, S. (S.) ifera in the eastern slope of the Urals: Akad. crassa uralica, S. (S. ) romallica, Neoseptaglomo­ Nauk S.S.S.R ., Trudy, Ural Branch, Inst. spirallel/a n. subgen. of Septaglomospirallel/a, Sep­ Geol., Trans., Sverdlovsk, No. 74, Problems taglomospirall el/a (R ectoseptaglom ospirallel/a ) post­ of Strat. No. 8, p. 155- 173, 3 pI., I text-fig., uralica, S. (R. ) postromallica, Toum ayel/alla? (Eo­ [in Russian] . toumayel/illa) primitiva n. subgen. n. sp., T. (T. ) Fourteen species, of which one is new, are septata, T. (Rectotoumayel/illa ) postprimitiva n. described from the Permian rocks of the eastern subgen. , n. sp. , T . ( R .) lobata, R. (R .) elegall s, slope of the Urals, U.S.S.R. All forms are illus­ C hem yshillel/a (Eochemyshillel/a) Cfassitheca, C. trated by thin-section photomicrographs. The new (E.) triallgula, C. (Chernyshillel/a) IlImulosa var. form is Elldothyra miassica. A rather lengthy dis­ multicamerata n. subgen. n. var., C. ( Rectochem y­ cussion of the genus Hemigordius Schubert, 1908, shillel/a ) kille/ellsis n. subgen. n. sp., C. (R. ) dislorta, is included, with especial emphasis on the coil­ C. (R.) kipchakellsis, Birectochern yshillel/a n. sub­ ing process. gen. of Chernyshillel/a, Palaeospiroplectammilla tchemyshillellsis rectoseptata (Lipina) n. gen. n. 86. MAMET, B. , 1962, Remarques sur la micro­ subsp., P. tchernyshillellsis globata (Lipina) n. sub­ faune de Foraminiferes du Dinantien: Bull. sp. Numerous taxonomic changes are also included Soc. BeIge Geol., v. 70, no. 2, p. 166-173, in this superb work. [in French]. The writer lucidly outlines the practical 82. Lvs, M. , 1964, La Microfaune dans ses Ap­ usage of calcareous smaller Foraminifera for world­ plications a la strati graphie du Carbonifere: wide Lower Carboniferous strati graphic correla­ 5th. Internat. Congr. on the Strat. and Geol. tions. It is noted that phylogenetic development of the Carboniferous, Paris, 1963, C.R. , v. I, among a number of the important foraminiferal p. 189-202, 5 text-fig. [in French]. families is strikingly si milar in western Europe, the A discussion of the use and value of micro­ Urals, northern Siberia, and North America. There fossils, primaril y smaller foraminifers and fusulin­ appears to be little microfaunal provi ncialism, and ids (all previously described ) , in establishing sound the major faunal outbursts can be correlated with­ strati graphic correlations fo r the Carboniferous in the northern hemisphere. The writer also points rocks of Belgi um, France and West Germany. out the influence of facies in relationship to foram­ iniferal distribution and draws attention to taxo­ 83 . Lvs, M., MAUV IER, A., and SERRE, B., 1962, nomic duplication due to random thin-sectioning. Notes preliminaire sur les microfaunes du Namurien du Nord de la France: Ann. Soc. 87. MAMET, B. , 1964, Sedimentologie des Facies Geol. du Nord, v. 82, p. 117-121 [in French]. " Marbres Noirs" du Paleozoique franco­ It is noted that A mmodisclls, SeptabrulI si­ beige: Mem. Roy. Inst. Sci. Nat. de Belgique, ilia?, A rc/wediscus, and Tuh eritilla are conspicu­ No. lSI , 131 p., 5 pI., [in French]. ous components in the Lower Carboniferous (up­ The writer notes that Carboniferous foram­ per Visean) limestones of northern France. In the inifers occur abupdantl y in biosparitic and bio­ Namurian Hom ocera.'· Zone the following smaller micritic rocks of tli: ' Belgian and French Platform. foraminifers are found: Plectogyra, Tetrataxis, However, the most favorable rock type appears to A mmodiscus, and SeptabrulIsiilla. The R eticulo­ be a rather pure carbonate, usually of a size-range ceras limestones and shales contain EostalJel/a , of from 50 to 500 microns, and an associated algal­ A rchaediscus, Plectogyra, Tuberililla, Pseudoelldo­ brachiopodal biota. Intraclastic limestones also Ih yra, and T etrataxis. carry many smaller foraminifers, but there is a conspicuous decline in abundance of endothyroids 84. MALA KH ovA, N. P. , 196 1, Morpho-functional and palaeotextulariids in true oolitic rocks. analys is of the inner structure of the Brady­ ilia shell: Paleont. Zhur., No.3, p. 14-18, 2 88 . MAMET, B., 1965, Remarques sur Ja Micro­ text-fig., [in Russian]. faune du Marbre Noir de Dinant (VIa): A complete revision of the morphological Geol. Soc. Belgiq ue, Ann., v. 88, Bull. 5, p. nomenclature used in describing the Middle Car­ 187-21 9, 1 pI. , 5 text-fig., [in French]. boniferous foraminifer Bradyilla. Comparison of The Lower Carboniferous Black Marble Bradyilla to related forms such as Jallischewskill a, sediments of the Dinant Synclinorium of Belgium Pseudobradyilla, and Glyphostomel/a is also in­ contains the boundary contact between the Tour­ cluded. Particular emphasis is given to the classifi­ naisian (Osagian) and Visean (Meramecian ) rocks cation of the apertures, pores, and the lamell ae of of this region. To establish this boundary with the bradyinid-type shell. more preciseness the sed imentation, depositional CONTRIBU TIONS FROM THB CUSHMAN FOUNDATION F OR F ORAMINIFERA L RESEARCH 73

environment, rock sequence, microfacies, and the Paris, C. R., v. 202, p. 1203-1204 [in French]. micro- and megafaunal distribution have all been A polygenic conglomerate from France is studied in detail. The significant limestone types dated as Lower Carboniferous (Visean) on the recognized consist of: (I) microcrystalline lime­ basis of the occurrence of the smaller foraminifer stone, (2) oolitic and organic fragmental limestone Efldothyra in the contained limestone pebbles. with microcrystalline limestone, and (3) a recrys­ tallized cemented fragmental limestone. All appear 93. MIKLUKHO-MAKLAY, A. D., 1957, New infor­ to have been deposited in a barred shallow-water mation concerning the systematics of phy­ basin. The distribution of the Foraminifera indi­ logeny of the Archaediscidae: Leningrad cates two distinctive assemblages: (I) free or Univ. Bull., ser. Oeol. and Oeophys., No. 24, pseudo-planktonic benthos (Archaediscidae) and p. 34-46, 4 text-fig., 2 tables [in Russian with (2) semi pelagic benthos (Ozawainellidae). The brief incomprehensible English summary]. former reflects the changes of facies within the In a study of the systematics and phylogeny basin while the latter appears to delineate specific of the Lower Carboniferous family Archaediscidae zones throughout the basin. The litho- and biofacies from the Soviet Union, one new subfamily name help interpret depth of water, salinity, diagenesis, (Asteroarchaediscinae) is proposed and 3 new and original precipitation. The foraminiferal plots genera and 2 new species are described and illus­ indicate a repeated and "explosive" development trated by rather generalized line drawings. The new of characteristic assemblages above the Tournaisian forms are: Hemiarchaediscus plallus n. gen. and boundary. sp., Rugosarchaediscus n. gen. with Archaediscus akchimellsis Orozdilova and Lebedeva, 1954, as the 89. MERRIAN, C. W. and BERTHIAUME, S. A., genotype, and L efl sarchaediscus ovalis n. gen. and 1943, Late Paleozoic formations of central sp. One excellent phylogenetic diagram of the fam­ Oregon: Oeol. Soc. America, Bull., v. 54, ily Archaediscidae is also given. no. 2, p. 145-172, 1 pI., 1 text-fig. The smaller foraminifer Tetrataxis sp., is 94. MIKLUKO-MAKLAY, A. D., 1964, Kazanian listed as occurring in the Lower Carboniferous Lagenidae from the Russian Platform: All­ (Visean?) Coffee Creek Formation of central Union Oeol. Inst., Trudy, n. s. , Paleont. & Oregon. Strat., v. 93, p. 3-20, 2 pI. [in Russian]. Twelve previously described Permian (Ka­ 90. MEUNI ER, S., 1885, Existence du calcaire a zanian) lagenidae from the Russian Platform are Fusulines dans Ie Morvan: Acad. Sci. Paris, described and illustrated by rather poor drawings C. R., p. 921-923 [in French]. and thin-section photomicrographs. Pertinent tax­ From the Lower Carboniferous oolitic lime­ onomic changes include the following: Delltalilla stones of Cussy, France, the writer mentions the striatella Paalzow, 1936 = N odosaria cf. N. stria­ occurrence of Saccammilla carteri [now referred tella (Paalzow); Lillgu/illa c1avata Paalzow, 1936 under the genus Saccammillopsis; see Soli as, 1921], = Lillguloflodosaria c1avata (Paalzow); Geinitz­ Fusu/ifla [possibly EostafJella or Pseudoelldothyra]. ilia spallde/i Tcherdynzev, 1914, and G. cunei­ Lituola, Elldothyra, and Climacammina. [With the formis Paalzow, 1936 = G. postcarbollica Spandel; exception of the "Fusu/illa" this microfauna was Frolldicularia parri Crespin, 1945 and 1958 = described and illustrated by Meunier in 1888.] Spalldelifla cf. S. parri (Crespin) ; and Lillgulillopsis TOta liaeformis Tcherdynzev, 1914 = L enticulifla 9 1. MICHEL-LEVY, A., 1908, Les terrains pri­ (A stacolus) rota/iaeformis (Tcherdynzev). maires du Morvan et de la Loire: Bull. Carte Oeol. France, v. 18, no. 120, p. 193-489, 7 95. MILON, Y., 1923 , Sur la microfaune du cal­ pI., 51 text-fig. [in French]. caire Brioverien (Precambrien?) de Saint­ Scattered outcrops of Lower Carboniferous Thurial (Ille-et-Vilaine): Soc. Oeol. France, rocks in France have yielded relatively abundant C. R., No.7, p. 73-74 [in French]. 5accammilla [now Sa ccamminopsis], Cribrospira , The Precambrian limestone breccia of St. Elldothyra, Valvulillella, Nodosillella [probably Thurial, France, yields abund ant smaller foram­ Earlalldinita] , Trociwmmilla [now Cyc/ogyra], Val­ inifers of the genus Efldothyra (13 specimens per \'ulilla [now Tetrataxis] and Septammilla [now re­ 2 cm.") mixed with calcispheres. [Mentioned mi­ -erred to Haplophragmifla] . crofauna is due to an obvious mix-up of thin­ The above microfauna is illustrated (pI. I) section material; this lower Visean assemblage was y representative thin-section photomicrographs. later described by Milon in 1928.] 2. MICHEL-LEVY, A., 1936, Presence de mylon­ ites dans un conglomerat viseen au Sud de 96. MILON , Y., 1923, Sur la fauna et l'age du Cal­ Tarare et interpretation des terrains anciens caire Carbonifere de St. Segal: Acad. Sci. dans les Monts du Lyonnais: Acad. Sci. Paris, C. R. , v. 176, p. 591 [in French]. 74 TOOl\1EY AND MAMET- BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PALEO:Z;OIC NO~FUSUL J N I D FORA1o.IJNIFERA , ADD. 4

The writer reports th at a foraminiferal as­ NADEZKIN , A. D ., 1962, Composite geological semblage composed of species of Elldol/lyra, Vall'­ section of the Lower Carboniferous terrig­ u/illa, Trochammilla, and T exlularia [would now enous deposits of northwest Bashkiria. Akad. probably be referred to Palaeolextularia] is associ­ Nauk S.S.S.R., Do kl ady, v. 143 , no. 3, p. 674- ated with a Lower Carboniferous (upper Visean 677 [in Russian]. to Namurian) brachiopod fauna at SI. Segal, The writers report that the Lower Carbon­ France. iferous (Visean) Yelkovo Horizon of northwestern Bashkiria, U.S.S. R., contains Elldolhyra alltiqua, 97. MOORE, R. C., 1966, Paleoecological aspects TOllmayella sp. aff. T . moelleri, Endolhyra ex. gr. of Kansas Pennsylvanian and Permian cyclo­ glomi/ormis, and E. ex. gr. illfiala. thems: Kansas Geol. Survey Bull. 169, Sym­ posium on cyclic sedimentation, p. 287-380, 101. MY ERS , D. A., 1965, Geology of the Wayland 52 text-fig. Quadrangle, Stephens and Eastland Counties, A very detailed discussion of the paleoeco­ Texas: U . S. Geol. Survey Bull. 1201-C, 63 logical aspects of Kansas Pennsylvanian and Per­ p., 3 pI. , 11 text-fig., 3 tables. mi an cyclothems. Approximately 20 representative The writer reports the occurrence of Late ecologic communities (ecosystems) are character­ Paleozoic smaller foraminifers from the following ized briefly and their strati graphic occurrence is il­ two stratigraphic intervals in north-central Texas: lustrated diagrammatically. Both calcareous and (1) Pennsylvanian (Virgilian) Graham Formation, agglutinated foraminiferal microfaunas are reported Gonzales Limestone Member, contains Bradyilla, from the following units: ( 1) Permian (Wolf­ Telralaxis, and Tuberililla, (2) Permian (Wolf­ campian) Speiser Shale ( Derb yia assemblage), campian) Pueblo Formation, Waldrip Shale Mem­ (2) Permian (Wolfcampian) Threemile Limestone ber, contains Bradyilla and forms that resemble Member of the Wreford Limestone (Composila­ Climacammilla. Felleslrellilla assemblage) , and (3) from the Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian) Leavenworth Limestone 102. OKIM URA , Y., 1965, Endothyroid Foraminif­ (Isogramma assemblage ) . [The Speiser Shale and era, Elldolhyrallopsis from Japan: Geol. Threemile Limestone foram identifications are Rept. Hiroshima Univ., No. 14, Prof. Im­ from Haltin, 1957, and the Leavenworth Limestone amura Mem. Vol., p. 253-264, pI. 21, 2 identifications are from Toomey, 1966.] text-fig. Four species of Elldolhyrallopsis are de­ 98. MORTON, G. H ., 1904, The Carboniferous scribed and illustrated by thin-section photomicro­ limestone fossils of north Wales: Liverpool graphs from the Pselldoelldolhyra spiroides Zone Geol. Soc., Proc., v. 9, p. 49-67. of the Akiyoshi Limestone Group, Akiyoshi Pla­ Primarily a compilation and listing of all teau, southwestern Japan, and the number 17 hori­ previously described fossils reported from the Low­ zon of the Onimaru Formation, Kitakami Massif, er Carboniferous of northern Wales, United King­ northeastern Japan. They are Elldolhyrallopsis dom. The smaller foraminifer A rclllledisclI s karreri hirosei n. sp., E. compressa (Rauser-Chernousova is reported from the Upper White Limestone, and Reitlinger ) E.? sp. A., and E .? sp. B. The as­ whereas the Upper Grey Limestone contains A. sociated foraminiferal assemblage strongly sug­ karreri, Elldolhyra ammolloides [now Loeblichia], gests that the Pselldoelldolhyra spiroides Zone of E. bowmalli, Saccammillll carleri [now Saccam­ the Akiyoshi Limestone Group is equivalent in age millopsis], Trochammillll ill ceria [now Cyciogyra] , to the Onimaru Formation (Lower Carboniferous­ Va/olllilla (sic) palaeolrochlls, V. decurrells [now (upper Visean). Telralaxis], and N odosaria [now probably Ear­ lalldillita]. 103. OM ARA, S., 1965, A micropaleontological ap­ 99. MURAVYEV, I. S., 1961 , Stratigraphy and facies proach to the stratigraphy of the Carbonifer­ structure of the Upper Permian in the Middle ous exposures of the Gulf of Suez region: Pechora River Basin: Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Neues Jahrb. f. Geol. u. PaHio nt. Mh., no. 7, Dokiady, v. 136, no. 2, p. 421-423, [in p. 409-419, 2 text-fig. Russian]. Current micropaleontological studies of the Variegated sandy-argillaceous marine sedi­ marine Carboniferous exposures of Abu Darag and ments of Upper Permian age (Kungurian Stage) Wad i Araba, Eastern Desert of Egypt, have demon­ from the Middle Pechora River Basi n, U.S.S.R., strated the existence of Westphalian and Stephan­ have yielded Nodosaria sp. cf. N . poslcarbollica, N. ian sediments. This presumably implies that the megacep/lllla, and Glomospira sp. afI. G. bipartita. Westphalian-Stephanian boundary occurs in bed mainl y of Nubian facies, in which the Carbonifer­ 100. MUSIN, M. K., CHERNOMORSKll, V. N., and ous-Permian boundary has previously been delin- CONTRIBUTIONS F ROM: THE C U:O:; H"lA:.'{ FOUNDATION FOR FORAl\I1KIFERAL RESEARCH 75

eated. The further establishment of the Tournaisian­ the northern part of the Russian Platform: Visean boundary in southwestern Sinai seems to in­ Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Doklady, v. 152, no. dicate that the complete Carboniferous succession 6, p. 1432-1435 [in Russian]. is represented in the Gulf of Suez region. [See From the Permian Maryegorskii Beds of the Omara and Conil, 1965 and Omara and Vangerow, Mezen Basin, U.S.S.R., Geil/itzil/a spal/deli, G. ex. 1965, for a taxonomic treatment of this micro­ gr. pseudoovoides, and Padangia sp. are reported. fauna.) 107. PAR EYN, C., 1961, Les massifs Carboniferes 104. OMARA, S. and CONIL, R ., 1965, Lower Car­ du Sahara sud-oranais: Publ. du Centre Na­ boniferous Foraminifera from southwestern tion. Rech. Scientif., Ser. Geol. No. I, v. I, Sinai, Egypt: Geol. Soc. Belgique, Ann., v. Strat. & Tecton., 325 p. , 180 text-fig., v. 2, 88, Bull. 5, p. 221-242, 3 pI., 2 text-fig. Strat. & Descript. Paleo., 244 p., 27 text-fig., Smaller Foraminifera identified in thin­ 16 tables, Paris [in French). Volume 2 contai ns a number of lists of sections taken from the Middle Member of the Dolomitic Formation of sou:hwestern Sinai (Egypt ) smaller foraminiferal occurrences (genera only) correlate well with the Lower Visean microfauna from the Lower Carboniferous (upper Tournaisian (VI ) of Bel gi um. The Sinai assemblage consists of to lower Namurian) carbonate rock units present in Morocco and Algeria, north Africa. No illustra­ 10 species, of which 3 are proposed as new. The ti ons or systematic descriptions are included, al­ new forms are: Permodiscus umbogmaellsis, Pro­ peTll10discus cOlltigUllS, and Plaltoarchaedisclls though a brief discussion on the microfaunal make­ aegyptiacus. All species are illustrated with thin­ up of each reported occurrence is given. section photomicrographs. 108. PATRULlUS, D . and NEAGu, T., 1963 , Ober die Anwesenheit des Dinants im Untergrund des 105. OMARA, S. and K ENAW Y, A., 1966, Upper rumanischen Ebene ( Moesisches Massiv ): Carboniferous microfossils from Wadi Araba Rev. de Geol. et de G eogr., v. 7, no. 2, p. 203- Eastern Desert, Egypt: Neues J ahrb. f. Geol. 207, 2 pI., I text-fig. [in German). u. Palaont. Abh., v. 124, no. 1, p. 56-83, pI. A microfauna of previously described small­ 8- 11 , 3 text-fig. [in English with German er foraminifers is reported from the subsurface of abstract] . the Rumanian Plai n. The reported microfauna is The writers describe a microfauna of 35 from the Cetate Well and is thought to be of Lower species of smaller foraminifers, of which 8 are re­ Carboniferous age. Representati ve specimens are garded as new, from the Upper Carboniferous ex­ illustrated by rather poor thin-section photomicro­ posures (shales separated by a crinoidal limestone) graphs. of Wadi Araba, Eastern Desert, Egypt. The micro­ fauna is illustrated by camera-Iucida whole-speci­ 109. PELHATE, A., 1965, La decouverte d'associa­ men drawings and is thought to be a correlative of tions de Foraminiferes dans Ie Carbonifere du the upper Missourian-lower Virgilian sequence bassin de Laval per met I'etablissement d'une (lower Stephanian of western Europe) . This micro­ echelle chronostratigraphique: C . R. Acad. fauna is neither homotaxial or coeval with the Sci . Paris, v. 260, p. 5316-5319 [in French). Lower Carboniferous dolomitic succession of south­ Study of the smaller Foraminifera of the western Sinai. Lower Carboni fe rous (upper Tournaisian to middle According to the writers this microfauna Visean ) of the Laval Basin of France has shown co ntains the oldest record of the genera ?CllOfJatel­ that this microfauna! sequence is chronologically la, ? A mmobaculoides, ?Gaudryil/a, and ? Vemeuil­ related to that previously reported from Belgium. inoides, none of which is recognized in pre-Juras­ In the sediments from the Laval Basin four micro­ sic strata. Agglutinated foraminifers represent by faunal zones have been recognized, these are: Zone fa r the most abundant microfaunal element. I (Tn 3 bc) characterized by calcispheres and Ear­ The new forms are: H yperammil/a /rilter- landiidae, Plectogyra , T etrataxis, and Spirop/ec­ 1II(ll/l/i, Glyp/rostom ella casteri, Crihrospira kl/ets­ tammina brevicu/a Conil and Lys; Zone 2 (Via) chi, Spiropleclammilla juxi, Pailleolexllllllria rod­ carries Ammodiscidae and Pac/r ysp/raera dervillei . I-Iwma/el/sis, Bigel/ eril/a (Illglifera , Clilllacammil/(1 Conil and Lys; Zone 3 (V I b) characterized by Jc/rwarzhachi, and Troc/rammil/a /ru zayyil/i. The representative Archaediscidae (Permodiscus, Pro­ microfauna is also noteworthy in containing rare permodiscus, and Arc/raediscus); and Zone 4 fusulinids, ostracodes, brachiopods, and conodonts. (V2-V2b to V3a?) characterized by the presence of Arc/r aediscus conveXllS var. COl/vexa Grozdilova 106. PAKHTUSOVA, N. A., 1963 , On the boundary and Lebedva, P/ectogyra spira Conil and Lys, of the Kazanian and Tartarian and on the Arc/r aediscus sp. of the type g/obosus Conil and Lys, stratigraphy of the Lower Ustya deposits in and P/ectogyra omp/w /ota (Rauser and Reit linger). 76 TOOMEY Al'VD ]\l.AJUET-BIBLIOGRAPHY O }o~ PALEOZOIC 1"ONFU SU L J ~ 1 D FORAl\UN1FERA , ADD. 4

110. PFENDER, J., 1937, Sur la presence de Fusu­ 1964, Carboniferous deposits of Shebelino linelles dans Ie Dinantien du Sahara: Soc. Gas Field: Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., D oklady, v. Geol. de France, C. R. Sommaires, pt. 10, p. 154, no. 2, p. 348-351 , 2 text-fi g., [in Russian]. 119-121 [in French]. Borehole data from the Shebelino Gas A Lower Carboniferous (Vi sean ) oolitic Field , in the region of the Soviet Union between limestone at the border of the Tanezrouft, North the Donbas and the Dneiper-Donets Trough, indi­ Africa, carries primitive fu sulinids and smaller fo­ cates the presence of a complete Carboniferous raminifers commonly referred to the archaedi scids. section overlying Precambrian crystalline rocks in an area of the Shebelino Uplift. Previously de­ Ill. P1RL ET, H ., 1963 , Sedimentologie des forma­ scribed species of small er foraminifers are used in tions du Viseen Superieur, V3b, dans la va l­ delineating the strati graphic limits of the Middle lee d u Samson (Belgique): Ann. Soc. Geol. Carboniferous stages (Bashkirian and Muscovian). Belgique, v. 86, p. 113-142 [in F rench]. From the Lower Carboniferous upper Vis­ ean (V3b Zone) in central Belgium the writer re­ 11 5. POZN ER, V. M . and SCHLYKOVA, I. 1., 1961 , ports the following smaller foraminifers: Cribro­ Paleontological characteristics of the Lower stomum sp., Tetrataxis cOll ica, MOll otaxis gibba, Carboni ferous Raskov Beds of the central Palaeotextularia consobrina, and A rchaediscus sp. Volga Basin: Microfauna U.S.S.R., Sbornik 13 , All-Union Petroleum Scientific-Research 112. PLOTN1KOV, M. A., 1964, Stratigraphy and Geol. Exploration Inst. , Trans., Publ. 179, lithology of the Upper Permian (Tartar) p. 5-21, 2 pI. [in Russian]. deposits of the lower course of the Mezen and From the Lower Carboniferous Rakov Beds Vashka Rivers: Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Komi of the central Volga Basin, U.S.S.R ., a microfauna Filial, Nauka Press, 72 p. , 7 pI. , 8 text-fi g., of 15 species, of which 13 are new, is described and 5 tables [in Russian]. illustrated by thin-section photomicrographs. The F rom the Upper Permi an deposits in the new forms are: Toumayella accepta, Lituotubella? vicinity of the Mezen and Vashka Rivers, U.S.S.R. , prima, L. certa, Haplophragmella al/tica, Quasi­ a number of previously described typical Upper endothyra procera , Q. com pta, Plectogyra il/opill­ Permian smaller foraminifers are noted (p. 13) ata, P. gelltilis, P. vicina, P. hOll esta , P. formosa, and illustrated by rather poor thin-section photo­ P. distil/ cta, and P. speciosa. micrographs ( Plate 1). 116. PUR K1N , M . M ., POYAR KOV, B. V., and Ro­ 113 . PLUMLEY, W. J. and GRAVES, R. W., JR. , ZANEC, V. M., 1961 , The strati graphy and new 1953, Virgilian reefs of the Sacramento Moun­ species of Foraminifera from the Tournaisian tains, New Mexico: Jour. Geology, v. 6 1, no. of the Borkoldoi Rid ge (Tianchan): Akad. I, p. 1-16, pI. 1-4, 5 text-fig. Nauk S.S.R. Kirgiz, Izvest., ser. Nat. Sci. , v. From Pennsy lvani an (Virgi li an ) "reefs" ex­ 3, pt. 4, p. 15-36, 2 pI., 1 text-fig., 2 tables posed in the Sacramento Mountains of southcentral [in Russian]. New Mexico, the writers report the occurrence of a From the Lower Carboniferous (Tour­ typical diverse assemblage of Pennsylva nian small­ naisian) rocks of the Borkoldoi Ridge (Tianchan ), er foraminifers and fusulinids. None of the forms U.S.S.R., a microfauna of 57 species is recorded. are illustrated or described. The reported assem­ Of the total microfauna 1 genus, 1 subgenus, 9 blage contai ns: A mmobaculites sp. , A mmovertella species, and 2 names are new. The new forms are sp., Calcitom ella sp. [probably would now be re­ illustrated by thin-section photomicrographs; they ferred under the genus Hedraites; see Henbest, are: QuasituberitilUl magI/a n. gen., Bisphaera 1963], Climacammina cylilldrica C ushman and eioll gala, Cribrospllllera ovalis, Eotuberitilla crassa, Waters, C. sp., Endothyra sp., Globivalvulina bi­ E. tallassico, T. magllo, Saipillgothurammilla fl. serialis C ushman and Waters, G . sp., Hyperam­ subgen. of Thllrammilla, Septatoumaye/la lebed­ millO sp., Nodosillella sp., N ubicularia sp. [sic], evae, Septaglomospirallella grozdilova e, and Tour­ OrtllOvertella sp., Tetrataxis cOllica Ehrenberg, T . Ilaye/la millima. Tuberitilla lIlaljawkilli Malakhova, sp., Trochammilla sp., and Tuberitillo sp. 1956, is renamed T . malachovae, and Parathllrtlll/­ The writers also note that a shale from a milia magll a Bykova, 1955, is renamed T. (Sal­ zone below their fifth limestone, and above the pillgothurammilla) bykovae. ·'reef" horizon, yielded, in addition to fusulinids, Climacammilla cylilldrica Cushman and Waters, 117. RA1L EAN U, G ., PATRULl US, D ., BL EA Hu, M ., Globivalvulilla biserialis Cushman and Waters, and and M1RAUTA, 0 ., 1964, Le Carbonifere des Tetrataxis cOllica Ehrenberg. Carpathes Ro umai nes et de L'avant-pays car­ 114. POGREBNYAK, V. A., and M . Y Eo D OLUDA, pathique: 5th. Internat. Congr. on the Strat. CONTRIB UTIONS FROM THI-:; C CRH:\fA.. ' FOUNDATION lo"OR FORA~UNIFERAL HE SEAR CH 77

and Geol. of the Carboniferous, Paris, 1964, and that 23 previously described species be in­ C. R., p. 723-729 [in French]. cluded in the new subgenus, (9) the creation of the Lower Carboniferous (Visean) sediments new subgenus Eoseptatollmayella on Septatollmay­ of the Carpathic Foreland, Roumania, have yielded ella rauserae Lipina, 1955, and that 5 previously Elldotll yra , Plectogyra, A rcllaediscus karreri, A. described species be included in the new subgenus, krestovllikovi, Pialloarc/wediseus spirillilloides, and ( 10) the description and illustration, by thin-section Hyperammilla. It is noted that the archaediscids are photomicrographs, of the new subgenus R ectosepta­ particularly abundant at the top of the section, usu­ tOllmayella Brazhnikova and Rostovceva on R ecto­ ally where the fu sulinid Millerella first appears. septatollmayella stylaellsis n. sp. Brazhnikova and Rostovceva, 1963 , and (11) the creation of the new 118. RAM OVS, A., and KOCHANSKy-D EVIDE, V., subgenus Neoseptaglom ospirallella Lipina on Septa­ 1965, Die Entwicklung des Jungpalliozoikums glom ospirallella daillae Lipina, 1955. in der Umgebung von Ortnek in Unterkrain: Slovene Acad. Sci ., Ljubljana, CI. 4, Hist., 120. RA USER-CHERNOUSSOVA, D . M., 1965, Foram­ Nat., & Math., No.8, p. 323-416, 18 pI. , 7 inifers in the stratotypical section of the Sak­ text-fig., 18 tables [in Serbian and German]. marian Stage (Sakmara River, southern Primaril y a paper reporting and illustrating Urals): Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. Trudy, Geol. the Lower Permian (Wolfcampian) biota (algae, Inst., Trans., v. 135, 80 p. , 6 pI., 3 text-fig., fusulinids, brachiopods) from the limestones in 5 tables [in Russian]. the vicinity of Ortnek, in the Lower Ukraine. Lists Primarily a paper describing the fusulinid of commonly occurring smaller foraminifers are sequence of the Permian (Sakmarian) Stage, in the given and thin-section photomicrographs of Spiro­ southern Urals, U.S.S.R., however, a number of pleetammilla (plate 6) and Globivalvulilla (plate previously described smaller foraminifers are men­ 7) are included. tioned in the text as also occurring within this sequence. 119. RWSER-CHERNOUSSOVA, D . M. (Editor) , 1963, Resolutions on the systematics of the endo­ 121. REtTLlN GER, E. A., 1960, Limits of Lower thyroid Foraminifera of the 2nd colloquium Carboniferous in strati graphic diagram of the organized by the Micropaleontological Com­ U.S.S.R. based on foraminiferal fauna: 4th mission (Moscow, April, 1962) : Akad. Nauk Congr. for the advancement of the stratig­ S.S.S.R. , Voprosy Mikropaleontologii, No.7, raphy of the Carboniferous (Heeden), v. 3, p. 223-227, 1 pI. , [in Russian]. p. 591-598, 1 text-fig. [in English]. As an important step towards the reclassifi­ The development of the foraminifers in the cation of the families Endothyridae and Tournay­ Carboniferous System differs from all preceding ellidae the Micropaleontological Commission put deposits in the relative variety of systematic units forth many suggestions and resolutions; among the (orders, families). With the inception of the Car­ more pertinent proposals the following merit con­ boniferous the first great abundance of foraminifers sideration : ( I) that the family Quasiendothyridae also occurs; there is also a wide dispersion of forms should include the genera Quasielldotll yra , Plallo­ in regions of different facies. However, rare first elldotllyra, Loebliellia, and Daillella ; representatives representatives of most of these forms had already of Cummings' family Loeblichinidae are to be in- appeared in Middle Devonian time. luded within this family, (2) that the genus Cribro­ The foraminiferal faunas of the Middle Car­ elldotllyra is synonymous with Quasielldothyra, (3) boniferous differ considerably from that of the Low­ creation of the new subgenus Eoqllasielldothyra er Carboniferous but still retain a succession in the Durkina on Elldotllyra bella Chernysheva, 1952, development of the majority of orders and families ( .. ) that the genus Plalloelldoth yra Reitiinger, 1956, that are common for the entire Carboniferous. incl ude 18 previously described species, (5) the Natural stages in the development of foram­ -reation of the new subgenus Urballella Malakhova inifers during the Lower Carboniferous provide a on Elldotllyra IIrballa Malakhova, 1954, (6) to basis for a further precision of its boundaries. In upport Rosovskaia's proposal to the Commission the correlation chart of the Carboniferous deposits of Zoological Nomenclature concerning the type of of tbe Soviet Union the boundary between tbe Elldotllyra [see China, 1965, for I.C.Z.N. opinion Devonian and Carboniferous is drawn at the base ,egarding Elldotil yra], (7) the creation of the new of tbe Likhvin Substage, witb a conditional inclu­ 'ubgenus Latielldotilyra Lipina on Elldotilyra lati­ sion of Etroeungt Beds in tbe Carboniferous. In pirt/lis Lipina, 1955, and that 25 previously de­ the area east of the Russian Platform and in tbe ;.:ribed species be included in the new subgenus, Urals, a peculiar pre-Carboniferous fauna of fo­ ) the creation of the new subgenus Spilloelldo­ raminifers ( Elldotllyra commllllis group) attains -ll yra Lipina on Elldotllyra eostifera Lipina, 1955, its greatest development during upper Levigitian 78 TOOMEY AND l\IAl\,lET-BIBLIOGRAPHY O J.<~ PALEOZOI C XOKFliS U LINID FORAMJNIFERA, ADD. 4

and Etroeungt time and appears to commence with to the Foraminifera: Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., the middle of the Famennian Stage, which suggests Voprosy Mikropaleontologii, No.7, p. 22- the possi bility of a Devonian age. Commencing 56, 3 pI., 4 text-fig., 4 tables, [in Russian) . with the Likhvian Substage of the Lower Tournais­ Primarily a fusulinid paper, but the writer ian, a distinct new stage in the development of fo­ discusses certain boundary problems, i.e., the raminifers occurs. Fammenian-Tournaisian and Visean-Namurian, and The Foraminifera of the lower Namurian tbe task of accurately delineating these boundaries are very closely linked with the faunas of the up­ in tbe light of distribution patterns of certain per Visean. However, higher in the section, a con­ groups of smaller foraminifers. siderable change takes place in the faunal complex; Pertinent pbylogenetic dendrograms of re­ this is marked by the predominance of early fusu­ lated groups of Devonian through Lower Carbon­ linids and representatives of the Endothyridae. iferous foraminifers are sbown on text-fig. 2-4.

122. REITL INGER, E. A., 1960, Importance of Fo­ 124. RocH, E., 1937, Sur Ie Viseen du Haut-Atlas raminifera for tbe stratigrapby of Lower Car­ a l'Est de Marrakecb: Acad. Sci. Paris, C.R., boniferous sediments: International Geol. v. 205, p. 332-333, [in French). Congress, 21 st Session, Repts. of Soviet Geol­ The writer reports that the Lower Carbon­ ogists, Doklady sovetski kh geologov prob­ iferous Teassaout Sbales of Morocco, Nortb Africa, lema, p. 56-64, 1 chart [in Russian with Eng­ contain the smaller Foraminifer Elldothyra and lisb abstract). are thought to be Visean in age. In tbe Soviet Union 14 foraminiferal zones subdivide tbe Lower Carboniferous rocks into wide­ 125. RoCH, E. , 1950, Histoire Stratigraphique du spread stratigraphic units. Comparison of Lower Maroc: Notes et Memoires Service Geol. du Carboniferous foraminiferal microfaunas of dif­ Maroc, v. 80, 435 p., [in Frencb). ferent continents indicates two distinctive zoogeo­ The smaller foraminifers Elldothyra and graphical provinces - the European and the North Valvlllilla are reported as occurring in the Lower American. Tbe boundary between tbem is marked Carboniferous (Visean) Jebel Begaa Limestone of at the Kuznetsk Basin , asiatic Soviet Union, wbere Morocco, Nortb Africa. In the Higb Atlas Moun­ the foraminiferal assemblage is impoverished in tains, tbe Visean Ait Akim beds contain Elldothyra. comparison with the microfauna of the European Province, and is characterized by some forms that 126. ROSOVSKAJA , C. E., 1961, On tbe systematics are identical, or very nearly so, to tbe Foraminifera of the Endotbyridae and Ozawaindellidae: of North America. Paleont. Zbur., No.3, p. 19-21 [in Russian). The closest relationship of the microfauna Tbe writer designates Elldothyra parva as of tbe Soviet Union witb that of North America is the type species of the new genus ElldostaUel/a. noted in rocks of upper Tournaisian age. Some Now grouped under this new genus are tbe follow­ identical or similar species are also present in the ing previously described species of Elldothyra: E. Etroeungt beds, tbe lower and upper parts of the parva, E. barzassiellsis, E. illf/ala, E. vera?, E. Visean (Kinderhookian), tbe lower part of tbe flleosa, E. slwmordilli, E. tall til/a and E. mira. Meramecian, and the upper part of the Chesterian. The appearance of planispiral forms like EostaUel­ 127. ROSOVSKAIA , C. E., 1963 , The earliest fusulin­ la (= ?Elldothyra of American writers) will prob­ ids and their ancestors: Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., ably delineate the boundary between the Tour­ Trudy, Inst. Paleontol., v. 97, 127 p. , 22 pI., naisian and the Visean on a continental scale. At 2 tables [in Russian). the present time it is possible to distinguish the fol­ A fundamental review of the evolution of lowing zones which appear to have wide strati­ the Lower Carboniferous Endothyridae and tbeir graphic distribution: (I) Qllasielldothyra commllllis relationships to the earliest Fusulinidae; one pbylo­ and Septaglomospirallel/a primae va Zone is prob­ genetic diagram is also included. All forms are fully ably Etroeungt and Kinderhookian in age, (2) described and illustrated by thin-section photo­ Chernyshillel/a Zone is considered to be Tournaisian micrographs. Of tbe described microfauna 7 species and Osagian in age for the most part, and (3) the and 3 subspecies are new. Tbe new forms are: Elldothyranopsis and EostaUel/a Zones correspond Elldothyra grallularis, E. paraprisca Schlykova approximately to the Visean, Meramecian, and triplex n. subsp., E. familiae, Plectogyrilla "Ueeta, Chesterian. Mikhailovel/a cOlltilllla, Plalloelldothyra aljutovica (Reitlinger) millor n. subsp., ElldostaUel/a fueoides, 123. REITLlNGER, E. A., 1963, On the micropale­ E. asymmetriea, E. delicata delieata n. sp. and sub­ ontological criteria for determination of the sp., and E. delicata millima n. subsp. [preoccupied limits of the Lower Carboniferous according by Elldotllyra minima Lange, 1925). CO N T H I BL'TIONS F ROM THE C e~q · DIAN FOUl\' DATI ON F OR F O R A l\llN IFgRAL RES gAHC H 79

128. SAGE, N. M. , JR ., 1954, The stratigraphy of P. punctum, and Samarilla lusca. D escriptions of the Windsor Group in the Antigonish Quad­ fu sulinids are also included. rangles and the Mahone Bay-St. Margaret Bay area, Nova Scotia: Dept. Mines, Mem. 131. SAURIN, E., 1961 , Foraminiferes dinantiens 3, 168 p., 21 pI., 14 text-fig., 2 maps. du Laos: Ann. Fac. Sci. Saigon, p. 199-230, A study of some smaller foraminifers from pI. 1-7 [in French with English abstract]. the Lower Carboniferous Windsor Group of Nova From some Lower Carboniferous limestones Scotia demonstrates that the upper Windsor Sub­ in Laos, southeast Asia, 74 species of smaller fo­ zone E, including the Gigalltoprodllctus and reef­ raminifers are described and illustrated by thin­ coral faunas, may be correlated with the mid­ section photomicrographs and drawings. Of the Chesterian beds of the type Chester area of the total microfauna 26 species and 2 varieties are new. United States. Foraminifers from this subzone most The new forms are : Arclwe/agella llomngewlel1sis, closely resemble Chester forms from the Paint Sa ccammina? rostrata, Tuberitilla laosellsis, T. vasi­ Creek Formation and the Glen Dean Limestone. jormis, T. irregularis, Ammodiscus vermicu/us, The foraminifers are systematically described and Glomospira eloll gata, G. minutissima, G. papa v­ illustrated (PI. 1-4) by line drawings of thin-sec­ ertlln, Glomospirella orthogollia , G. discobola, G. tion specimens. [All forms ( 10) are only identified bipellllis, G. elldoth yroidea, Spirillilla bocheti, S. to the generic level ; some are obviously mis­ o vata, Brullsiilla xiell gtollgensis, Carbonella palri­ identified.] ellsis, Litllotubella herrmalllli, M stillia trafJllillhell­ sis, A rchaediscus acutus, A . praecursor, A. aeri­ 129. SAURIN, E., 1960, Foraminiferes et posItIOn fodillae, A. quadratus, A . foliaceus, A. errectus stratigraphique de quelques calcaires anthra­ and Cribrostomum macel/um, Textularia brady; colithiques Indo-Chinois: Soc. Geol. France, (Moeller) , Liebus, 1932, is renamed Cribrostomum C.R. , no. 7, p. 171-173, [in French]. liebusi nov. nom., and Cribrostomum sp. no. 2 The Lower Carboniferous (Visean) Ban Lipina, 1948, is renamed C. lipillae. Some fusulin­ Phit Limestone of Laos, southeast Asia, contains ids are also described and illustrated. an abundant microfauna characterized by species The Ban Ph it and Tham Neup Limestones of the Archaediscidae and Endothyridae. A faunal are dated as upper Visean; the Ban Nam Thong list of 25 genera and 47 species (all previously de­ Limestone as lower Visean, and the Pah Xien scribed) is included. Thong Limestone as uppermost Tournaisian or lowermost Visean. 130. SWRIN, E ., 1960, Foraminiferes Viseens de Ban Phit (Laos): Ann. Fac. des Sci. Saigon, 132. SCHELLW1EN , H. E., 1894, Ober eine angebliche p. 345-376, pI. 1-4 [in French with English Kohlenkalk-Fauna aus der aegyptischarabis­ abstract]. chen Wuste: Zeit. Deutsch. Geol. Ges., No. The Lower Carboniferous (upper Visean) 46, p. 68-78, [in German). limestone of Ban Phit, Laos, southeast Asia, con­ During a re-study of Walther's fossil collec­ tains an abundance of small er foraminifers, of tions of supposed Lower Carboniferous age from which representatives of the Archaediscidae and Wadi Araba, Eastern Desert, Egypt, the present Endothyridae are dominant. The microfauna con­ writer found specimens of Elldothyra sp. cf. E. sists of 69 species of which 3 I species and 5 vari­ bo wmani, Tetrataxis, and Climacammilla in a thin­ eties are new. The microfauna is illustrated by thin­ section of crinoidal limestone and on this basis as­ section photomicrographs and drawings. The new signed the unit to the Upper Carboniferous. [See iorms are: Hyperal1lmilla hastata [ == Earitllldia] , Omara, 1965, for the most recent discussion of the Toly pammilla spillosa, T. cammo ll ellsis, T, Il odlls­ microfauna of this region). :oea/is, Corlluspira bispirata, C. zeili, C. Ilmbilicata, Forschia michaudeli, F. auvrayi, Forsehiella phase­ 133. SHCHERBAKOV , O. A., ET AL., 1964, Stratig­ llus, Hap/ophrllgmella dussall/ti, Brullsia indosill­ raphy of the Tournaisian-Visean boundary t llsis, A rchaedisclls pseudoviseherellsis, A . e/oll­ beds in the central Urals: Akad. Nauk ':!atus, Permodiscll S laotial1us, Nodosillella virgulilla, S.S.S.R. , v. 158, no. I, p. 1l2-ll5, 1 text-fig., \ -. vacilltllls, Spiroplectammilla modesta, Cribro­ [in Russian ; English translation I N: Doklady JlO lnUm larva, C. bradyi Moeller var. parva, C. ESS, v. 158, Sept.-Oct. 1964, p. 26-28, 1 CC lItUI11 , C. breve, Cribrogell erilla humilis, C. amp­ text-fig.]. ·iata, QUllsielldoth yra / llcosa Ganelina var. concisa, The stratigraphy and paleontology (spores, Plectogyra cistula, P. paN/ukraillica Lipina var. pollen, previously described smaller Foraminifera, m pero, Plectogyro pusilla, P. tremo, P. triangularis, corals and brachiopods) of the Tournaisian-Visean P. frequelltata Ganelina var. pithellsis, P. excelsa boundary beds of the central Ural Mountains, Ganelina var. la otiolla, P. delicata, P. ballphitensis, U.S.S.R., have been studied in detail. Results indi- 80 TOOMEY AND ~IAl\'ET-BIBLIOGRAPHY O r' PALf

cate that the upper Tournaisian deposits of the random sections of the genus Pacll ypilloia have Gubakha Section in the central Urals include the been assigned to at least eight different genera by Kos'va Formation of calcareous to terrigenous various authors: N odosaria, Geillitzilla, Parageill­ rocks which grade downward into the Kizelovo itzilla, Pacll ypilloia, Pseudogeillitzilla, Pararobul­ Limestone; the Kos'va Limestone is lithologically oides, Parapermodiscus, and Parapacllyphloia. Of similar to the coal measures in many parts of these Parageillitzilla, Parapacllypilloia, Pseudo­ the area. geillitzilla, and Parapermodiscus have proved to be synonyms of the genus Pacllyphloia . 134. SKVORZOV, V. P. , 1965, New Visean Foram­ Studying non-oriented smaller foraminifers inifera from northern Fergana: Akad. Nauk has led some authors to erect spurious genera and S.S.S.R., Paleont. Zhur., No. 3, p. 23-32, pI. species and to go astray as to their systematic posi­ 3, [in Russian). tion and phylogenetic relationships. From the Lower Carboniferous (Visean) rocks of northern Fergana, U.S.S.R., eight new 136. SULTANAYEV, A. A ., 1965, Reefs of Moscow species of smaller foraminifers and two new species age in the Urals: Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Dok­ of fu sulinids are described and illustrated by thin­ lady, v. J 65, no. 4, p. 904-906, [in Russian). section photomicrographs. The new smaller foram­ Reefs which are believed to be of Moscow inifers are: Ammodiscus? irregularis, Glomospirel­ age ( Middle Pennsylvanian ) were identified on the la sairamica, Plectogyra koksarekensis, A rchaediscus eastern slope of the southern Urals at the shore of e!oll gatus1 Propermodiscus eiegalls, P. telJuissimus, the Ui River, U.S.S.R. The same limestones were PlalJ oarclwedisclJ s longus, and PermodiscllS sum­ formerly assigned to a Silurian age on the basis sarellsis. of a coral whose actual range is Silurian to Car­ boniferous. The present study revealed the pos­ 135. SOSNINA, M. 1., 1960, On the methods of sibility of a more accurate age determination on studying Lagenidae: International Geol. Con­ the basis of previollsly described Foraminifera gress, 21st. Session, Repts. of Soviet Geol­ found in 3 of the 4 units present. The foraminiferal ogists, Doklady sovetskikh geologov problema. assemblages contain Plectogyra bradyi (Mikhailov) p. 32-47, 2 pI., 15 text-fig., [in Russian with and a number of previously described fu sulinids that English abstract). are similar to those in the upper Moscow beds (the The study of smaller Foraminifera enclosed upper part of the Middle Carboniferous System). in hard rocks, resistant to di sintegration, is usually done on non-oriented thin-sections. This method 137. SUN , Y. C., 1964, On the lower boundary of affords valuable data in elucidating details of the the Carboniferous System of south China: internal structure. Yet, investigations have shown 5th. Internat. Congress on the Geol. and Strat. that it is difficult, if not impossible, to reconstruct of the Carboniferous, Paris, C.R. , 1964, p. the external shape of the shell on the basis of non­ 807-812. oriented thin-sections. From the Lower Carboniferous Mengkungao While studying the Permian Lagenidae of Formation in central Hunan, south China, the fol­ Sikhote-Alin, U .S .S.R., the writer developed a lowing previously described smaller foraminifers method of utilizing consecutive polished sections are recorded : Glomospirella irregularis, Toumay­ in order to reconstruct the external shape of the ella primaria, Septatoumayella pseudocamerata, shell. Samples containing Lagenidae were cut into Plectogyra recta , and P. inf/ata maxima. thin laminae, 2-3 mm. thick, then polished surface sections were selected whose outlines closely re­ 138. THEODoRovITcH, G. 1 , 1945, The Bashkirian sembled one another. These forms were polished in Stage of the Middle Carboniferous and its three mutuall y perpendicul ar directions under a subdivisions: Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Doklady, binocular microscope. Each successive stage being v. 49, no. 2, p. 133 -135, [in Russian). copied by means of a drawing apparatus. The work On the basis of fusulinids the Middle Car­ carried out in this manner led to unexpected results. boniferous Bashkirian Stage has been subdivided It was evident that Lange (1925), who established into three substages. All three of these substages the genus Pacll ypilloia , on the basis of non-oriented contain A rcllaediscus basllkiricus Krestovnikov and thin-sections, obtained erroneous results; he re­ Theodorovitch and Bradyina sp. cf. B. cribrosto­ ferred random oblique lateral cuts to the genus mata Rauser-Chernollssova and Reitlinger. Pacll ypilloia , whereas an approximate longitudinal­ axial section was defined as Geinitzilla ovata Lange. 139. THEOOOROVITCH, G. 1 , GROZOILOVA, L. P. , One additional lateral section was described by and LEBEoEvA, N. S., 1959, Some data on the Lange as Nodosaria sp. subdivision of the Bashkir Stage of mountain­ This study has shown that diverse oblique ous Bashkir ia in accordance with the Foram- CONTRIBCTION~ FRO).! THE: Cl;SHAlAN FOUNDATION F OR F ORA1\I1NIFERAL RESEARCH 81

inifera fauna : Soc. Nat. Hist. Moscow, Bull., mineralogical analyses of the shales: Akad. ser. geol., v. 34, no. 6, p. 103-115, 1 table, Nauk S.S.S.R., Doklady, v. 139, no. 5, p. [in Russia n with English summary]. 1181-11 84, [in Russian]. This paper deals primaril y with new data on The smaller foraminifers Elldothyra alltiqua, the stratigraphy of the Bashkir Stage from the E. latispiralis, and Toumayella sp. are listed as western slope of tbe South Urals, U.S.S.R. The sub­ occurring in the Lower Carboniferous Kizel strata division of the Bashkir Stage into five faunal zones of the Kama-Kinel Depression, U.S.S.R. (mainly on the basis of previously described small­ er foraminifers) that had been previously proposed 142. VDOVENKO, M. V., 1962, Some new upper has been confirmed and undergone further substan­ Visean and lower Namurian species of Fo­ ti ation, thus acquiring a more regional stratigraph­ raminifera from the southwestern part of ic significance. central Kazakhstan: Paleon!. Zhur., No. I, p. 41-46, pI. 3-4 [in Russian]. Eight new species of Lower Carboniferous 140. TOOMEY, D. F., 1966, Application of factor smaller foraminifers are described from the upper analys is to a facies study of the Leavenworth Visean and lower Namurian rocks of the south­ Limestone ( Pennsy lvanian-Virgili an) of Kan­ western part of central Kazakhstan, U.S.S.R. All sas and environs: Kansas Geol. Survey, Spec. Distribution Publ. 27, 28 p., 13 text-fig., 6 forms are illustrated by thin-section photomicro­ graphs. The new species are: Ammobaculites? tables. llllomalis, Spiroplectammilla minima, S. exotica, Samples from 32 Leavenworth Limestone MoraVllmmillll koktjubellsis, Howchillia beleutensis, ( Pennsylva ni an-Virgilian) localities from south­ Tetrataxis dzhezkazgallicus, T. killgiricus, and T. western Iowa to northern Oklahoma were subjected o valis. to a factor analysis in order to differentiate mean­ ingful facies and biofacies. Total counts of calcar­ 143. VOICHEKOVSKAtA , A. A., 1961, On some eous smaller foraminifers were studied with the aid species of the family Endothyridae in the of a computer; three biofacies were defined: ( I) Lower Carboniferous of the uppermost north­ mobile foram biofacies - which contain the high­ ern region: Leningrad Inst. Geol., Sympo­ est percentage of mobile smaller foraminifers, (2) sium on Paleontol. and Stratigr., Bull. 24, p. fusulinid biofacies - dominated by an abundance 16-45, 7 pI. , [in Russian]. of triticitid fusulinids, and (3) an encrusting foram From the Lower Carboniferous Tournaisian biofacies - in wbich three encrusting foraminiferal and Visean limestones of northern Siberia a micro­ genera represent the bulk biofacies characteristics. fauna of 28 foraminiferal species, of which 17 are The mobile foram biofacies comprises 20 outcrop new species and 2 are new varieties, is described localities, whereas the fusulinid biofacies is repre­ and illustrated by rather poor thin-section photo­ sented at nine localities. Both foraminiferal bio­ micrographs. The new forms are: Elldothyra? facies are closely rel ated. The encrusting foram zlobilli, E. trallsita Lipina var. magna n. var., E.? biofacies is onl y represented at three localities in Iransita Lipina var. minima n. var. , E.? origillis, southwestern Iowa. Results of the foraminiferal E. jlllillSi, E. lipillae [specific name preoccupied; analysis suggest that the biological mechanism see Morozova, 1949], E. {illitima, Quasielldothyra responsible for the Leavenworth calcareous foram­ pseudochomatica, Plectogyra grata, P. jUllcta, P. iniferal distribution and abundance are relatively schlykovae, P. poljarica, P. corallovajaellsis, P. interrelated factors of a highly organized ecosystem. coarUI , P. mUllita, P. ovoidea, Plectogyrilla rei!­ Formic acid residues yielded a relatively lillgerae, Globoelldothyra arctica, and G. tum ida. abundant microfauna of agglutinated and silicified Taxonomic changes include the following: Nallicel­ Foraminifera. Nine genera of agglutinated foram­ la tragilis Lipina, 1951 == Plectogyra Iragi/is inifers and two silicified, though originall y calcar­ (Lipina), and Elldothyrilla? gracilis Rauser-Cher­ eous, genera are present. noussova, 1948 == Miklwi/ovella gracilis (Rauser­ Consideration of all the data suggests tbat Chernoussova) . the Leavenworth Limestone was deposited in rel­ atively shallow water on a broad, slowly subsiding 144. WAGNER , H. C., 1966, Pennsylvanian mega­ carbonate platform and tbat this thin carbonate is cyclothems of Wilson County, Kansas, and a very persistent and laterall y homogenous unit. speculations concerning their depositional en­ vironments: Kansas Geol. Survey Bull. 169, 1-11. VALlULLlNA, R. T . and CHERNOMORSKY, V. Symposium on cyclic sedimentation, p. 565- N., 1961 , The subdivision of the Lower Car­ 591, 10 text-fig. boniferous terrigenous strata of northwest The writer notes that sedimentation during Bashkiria according to spore-pollen data and Pennsy lvani an time in Wilson County, Kansas, was 82 TOOMEY AND MAMET-BIB LIOGR APHY 0 ]:0' PALEOZOIC NONF USULINID F ORAJ\fl N JFERA, ADD. 4 cyclic, and that characteristic environments pre­ 148. ZAVJALOVA, E. A., 1959, Tournaisian Foram­ vailed during each part of the megacycle, resulting inifera of the Lvov Depression: Ukrainskii in the formation of sedimentary rocks with clearly Nauchno-issledovatel'skii Geologorazvedoch­ different lithological and faunal attributes. Ten nyi Inst., Kiev, Trudy, v. I, p. 174-179, 3 pI. , depositional stages composing each megacycle are [in Russian). recognized, their characteristics are noted and spec­ Four previously described species of small­ ulations concerning their depositional environments er foraminifers are discussed and systematically are given. It is reported that Stage C, the argilla­ described from the Lower Carboniferous (Tour­ ceous transgressive-regressive marine stage, con­ naisian) rocks of the Lvov Depression (Ukraine) tains A mmodisclIs, Ammovertella, Tolypammilla of the Soviet Union. All forms are illustrated by [probably Millammodytes), Glomospira, and Hyper­ rather poor thin-section photomicrographs. The ammilla; Stage F, the stagnant-water marine stage, microfauna consists of: Chemyshinella glomi/ormis contains A mmodisclIs, COTIIll spira, and Tetra/axis. Lipina, TOllmayella discoidea Dain, Septabrllllsiilla kraillica Lipina , and Paralllllrammilla suleimallovi 145. WALTHER, J. K., 1890, Ober eine Kohlenkalk­ Lipina. Fauna aus der aegyptisch-arabischen Wiiste: Zeit. Deutsch. Geol. Ges., No. 42, p. 419- 149. ZELLER, D. E. N ., 1955, Endothyroid foram­ 449, [in German). iniferal faunas from the Lower Carboniferous The writer mentions the occurrence of of England and Algeria (Abstract) : Jour. COTlluspira sp. [now referred to Cyclogyra), and Paleontology, v. 29, no. 4, p. 738. Trochammilla illcerta? in the fauna of Wadi Araba, An abundant and diverse microfauna of Eastern Desert, Egypt, and assigned the unit to the endothyroid Foraminifera is reported from Lower Lower Carboniferous. [See Omara, 1965, for the Carboniferous limestones collected from England most recent discussion of the microfauna from and Algeria. this region.) The European endothyroid faunas show 146. WILLIAMS, J. S. and YOLTON, J. S., 1945, greater similarity to the Mississippian faunas of the Brazer (Mississippian) and lower Wells Cordilleran Geosyncline than they do to the faunas (Pennsylvanian) section at Dry Lake-Logah of the Midcontinent region. Quadrangle, Utah: Am. Assoc. Petroleum Specimens from the upper Vi sean at Taghi!, Geologists, Bull., v. 29, no. 8, p. 1143-1155, Algeria, seem to be conspecific with Plectogyra 2 text-fig., 1 table phrissa Zeller from the Kinkaid Limestone (upper Elldotl,yra sp. is listed as occurring in unit Chesteran) of Illinois. 2 of the Brazer Limestone (Meramecian) at Dry Associated with the endothyroid foraminifer Lake, Utah. are two other interesting genera of smaller foram­ From the lower part of the Early Pennsyl­ iniferas. Howchillia bradyalla (Howchin), previ­ vanian Wells Formation at Dry Lake, Utah, Elldo­ ously known only from England, has been found thyra sp. cf. E. ovata Waters is listed as occurring in samples from the upper Visean at Taghi!, within this interval. Algeria. A rclwedisclIs karreri Brady, known to oc­ cur in the upper Visean of Europe, has also beeD discovered in beds of the same age at Igli, Algeria, 147. WOLFENDEN , E. B., 1958, Palaeoecology of North Africa. the Carboniferous reef complex and shelf limestones in northwest Derbyshire, England: Geol. Soc. America, Bull., v. 69 , p. 871-898, 150. ZELLER, E. J ., 1955, Endothyroid zonation in 12 text-fig., 3 tables. the Mississippian of the Rocky Mountains In a detailed study of the Lower Carbon­ (Abstract) : Jour. Paleontology, v. 29, no. iferous (middle Visean) reef complexes of north­ 4, p. 737-738. west Derbyshire, England, the writer notes that Through the use of endothyroid Foram­ there is a conspicuous increase in the numbers of inifera it is possible to recognize four widespread calcareous foraminifers from the fore-reef and reef microfaunal zones in the Mississippian rocks of the proper, towards the back-reef and lagoonal facies. western United States. The faunal succession of the It is mentioned (p. 887) that the form endothyroids and the lateral extent of the four A plITalysia carbollaria Garwood is thought to be an microfaunal zones was determined by thin-sectio encrusting foraminifer comparable to species of the studies of carbonates from twelve measured sec­ genus Nubecularia, although no evidence is given tions along the Cordilleran Trough, from ArizoD2 to support this contention. to Montana. CONTRIBUTIONS' FROM THE CUSHMAN FOUNDATION FOR FORAMINIFERAL RESEARCH 83

DISTRIBUTION OF ARTICLES 42, 43 , 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, ACCORDING TO 55, 56, 57, 60, 61, 62, 64, 66, 67 , 69, 77, GEOLOGIC AGE AND CATEGORY 78 , 79, 80, 81 ; 82, 83 , 86, 87 , 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 95 , 96, 98, 100, 102, 104, 107, PRECAMBRIAN 108, 109, 110, 111, 115, 116, 117, 119, 21 121 , 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, CAMBRIAN 129, 130, 131, 133, 134, 137, 141, 142, 12, 21 143 , 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150

ORDOVICIAN PENNSYLVANIAN 7 32, 36, 52, 54, 58, 59, 66, 72, 75, 82, 84, 97, 101 , 103, 105, 113, 114, 132, 136, 138, SILURIAN 139, 140, 144 3, 11, 14, 15, 58

DEVONIAN PERMIAN 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13 , 16, 17, 18, 19, 36, 40, 54, 63 , 65, 68, 70, 71 , 73, 74, 75, 20, 22, 23 , 24, 25 , 26, 27, 28, 34, 66, 121, 76, 85, 94, 97, 99, 101 , 106, 112, 118, 122, 123 120, 135

MISSISSLPPIAN G ENERAL 1, 9, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 41, 39, 79, 81, 119, 121, 122, 135 84 SCHNITKER-VARIATrON IN TRILOCULINA LINNf:; IANA D'ORBTGNY

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ABSTRACT for his aid in establishing the isolation cultures. The At reproductive maturity the ortspring of a si ngle specI­ culture medium was millepore-filtered Largo Sound men of Trlloculina Jinneialla d'Orblgny produced asexua lly in laboratory culture aUain a size only about one eighth water; temperature was maintained at about 25 ' C. that of t he origina l parent. The offspring show splro­ RESULTS loculine. Irregular, and, very rarely. quinQueioculine char­ acteristics. but none of the speclnc characters of T. An isolated specimen of Triloculilla lilll1 eialla Iinneiana. d'Orbigny began to reproduce asexually in March 1966. Some of the offspring were removed to iso­ INTRODUCTION lation cultures to establish controlled clonal lin­ The occurrence of variability of test morphology, eages, the rest were kept in bulk cultures. By late especially as associated with sexual and asexual August 1966, six asexually produced generations modes of reproduction, is well known among fo­ could be observed in the isolation cultures. The raminifera. The variations affect the size of the first and most obvious disparity between tbe orig­ proloculus and the general proportions of the adult inal parent and all of its offspring exists in the test. Less widely known is the existence of great size relationships. Nearly all of the specimens of variability among foraminiferal specimens which T . Iillll eialla in the Florida Key material were be­ were produced by a single type of reproduction. tween 0.65 and 1.0 mm in length, whereas tbe off­ The present study is based on cultures of foram­ spring attained on the average a length of only inifera maintained in the Department of Geology 125 microns at reproductive maturity. The parent of the University of Illinois. The parent foraminif­ specimen from Florida had II chambers, but the era were collected on Dec. 29, 1965 by W. W. Hay offspring reproduced when four or five chambers and D. S. Marszalek at Largo Sound, Key Largo, had been built. The size of the proloculus for botb Florida. The study has been supported by National forms was nearly the same, around 30 to 35 mi­ Science Foundation Grant GB-4101 (W. W . Hay, crons minimum diameter. From the study of the Principal Investigator). I thank Dr. Eugene B. proloculus, it was not possible to determine whether Small, Department of Zoology, Univ. of Illinois, or not the large Florida specimens represent the

EXPLANATION OF PLATE 7 AND TEXT FIGURES I TO II Text figures I to II are tracings of outlines and suture-lines of the specimens illustrated on the plate and are numbered correspondingly. FIGS: PAGE I. Test of original parent; length 995 microns...... 84 2. Offspring consisting of prolocular apparatus only, immersed in glycerine; maximum diameter 41 microns...... 85 3. Offspring consisting of prolocular apparatus plus one chamber, immersed in glycerine; length 56 microns...... 85 4. Three-chambered offspring, immersed in glycerine; length 82 microns. 85 Specimens illustrated in figs. 2, 3, and 4 were killed before photography; specimens illustrated in figs. 5-11 are empty tests, after reproduction. 5. Offspring with quinqueloculine chamber arrangement (penultimate cbamber broken); length 125 microns...... 85 6. Spiroloculine offspring, four-chambered; lengtb 119 microns (fig. 6b immersed in glycerine). 85 7. Slightly twisted spiroloculine form; length 91 microns...... 85 8. Spiroloculine offspring with apertural end of ultimate chamber twisted approximately 120 de­ grees from previous pl ane of coiling; length 125 microns (figs. 8a, 8d immersed in glycerine) . 85 9. Offspring with sligbtly twisted spiroloculine form; length 136 microns...... 85 10. Offspring with slightly twisted spiroloculine form, six-chambered; length 136 microns (fig. lOb immersed in glycerine)...... 85 II. Monstrous offspring; length 114 microns...... 85 CONTRIB. CUSHMAN FOUND. FORAM. RESEARCH, VOL. 18 PLATE 7

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microspheric stage and the cultured specimens a grees with relation to the penultimate chamber, as megalospheric stage. is typical for Tri/oeulilla. Among many hundreds In his observations on Spir%eu/illa hyalilla of specimens, no closer similarity to Triloeu/illa Schulze, Arnold ( 1964) illustrates the great varia­ could be observed . All specimens are highly trans­ bility of that species, in which he observes tests parent and smooth in appearance. The heavy sur­ which can be assigned to Spir% eulilla, Quill­ face ornamentation characteristic of T. Iillll eialla que/ocu/illa and Triloeu/illa or which are com­ is never present. A few obviously aberrant or pletely irregular. The same range of variability is monstrous specimens were found among the off­ displayed among the descendants of T. Iillll eialla, spring in culture, one of these is illustrated in with the exception of the triloculine form. The pro­ fig. ) I. locular apparatus is identical to the one described CONCLUSIONS and figured by Arnold for S. hyalilla, but subse­ The laboratory populations of the offspring of quently the tests become relatively higher and T. /illll eialla, on the basis of morphological study narrower. In about 60% of the specimens, the alone, cannot be assigned to the proper species. chambers are added in approximately the same These forms are regarded as variants produced pl ane of coiling, resulting in spiroloculine forms under favorable living conditions when reproduc­ (figs. 3, 4, and 6). In about 30% of the specimens, tion occurs before specific characters are developed. they are added in planes of coiling which are slightly rotated, but without bringing the chambers REFERENCES to an extensive overlap. Such irregular specimens ARNOLD, Z. M., 1964, Biological Observations on resemble occasionally a massiline chamber arrange­ the Foraminifer Spir%eulina hyalin a Schulze: ment but lack the quinqueloculine juvenarium of Univ. California Pub I. Zoology, vol. 72, p. that genus (figs. 7, 9, and 10). A quinqueloculine 1-93. chamber arrangement is occasionally displayed LOEBLlCH, A. R. and TAPPAN, H ELEN, 1964, Pro­ (fig . 5, the penultimate chamber of this specimen tista 2, Sarcodina, chiefly "Thecamoebians" was broken during preparation for photography). and Foraminiferida, ill: Treatise on inverte­ Fig. 8 illustrates a specimen which is basically brate Paleontology, Moore, R. C., Ed., Geol. "spiroloculine," but in which the apertural end of Soc. America and Univ. Kansas Press, p. 1- the ultimate chamber is rotated by about 120 de- 900, fi gs. 1-653. CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE CUSHMAN FOUNDATION FOR FORAMI N IFERAL RESEARCH 87

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CORRECTIONS

The following changes should be made in the p. 105, 2nd column, 13th line from top: for paper entitled "Aslerorolalia Irispinosa (Thal­ "model" read "modal." mann), a spinose rotaliid from Digha Beach, p. 106, Table 5: the entries showing values for Southern Bengal" by B. K. Ghose, which appeared in Vol. XVII, pt. 3, pp. 104-108 of this journal: the confidence limits should be interchanged. p. 105, Table 4, first line below the table: for p. 106, Table 5, third line below the table: for u_0,41" read "0.41." "P" read "rho." p. lOS, Table 4, third line below the table: for p. 106, 2nd column, 16th line from the bottom: HP" read "rho." for "P" read "rho," 88 TODD-RECENT LITERATURE ON THE FORAMINIFERA

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Below are given some of the more recent works land.-Palaeontology, v. 9, pt. 3, Oct. 1966, on the Foraminifera that have come to hand. p. 492-510, pis. 77-79, text figs . I , 2 (map, range chart) .-Eighteen species (none new; AKIM ETS, V. S. The stratigraphy and Foramini­ 2 indeterminate ) from beds correlated with fera of the Lower Cretaceous deposits of Byel­ the upper Campanian. orussia (in Russian), ill Palaeontology and Stratigraphy of the Baltic and the Byelorussia, BELYA EVA, N. V., and SAIDOVA , KH. M. Relations No. I (6).-Ministry of Geol. of U .S .S.R., between the benthic and planktonic Foramini­ Vilnius, 1966, p. 293-375, pis. 1-5, text figs . fera in the uppermost layers of Pacific sedi­ 1-8 (maps, columnar sections) .--Sixteen spe­ ments (Engli sh translation).-Oceanology, cies (13 new) from Valanginian, Hauterivian­ Akad. Nauk SSSR, v. 5, No.6, 1965 (English Barremian, Aptian, and Albian. edition, Oct. 1966), p. 56-59, text figs . I, 2 (map, graphs) .-Percentages of benthonic ALEXANDROWICZ, ZOFIA . Cretaceous deposits in (secreted or agglutinated kinds) and plank­ glacial floes on the isl and Wolin and in the vicinity of Kamien Pomorski (English sum­ tonic specimens at various depths and latitudes mary of Polish te xt).-Polska Akad. Nauk, in the Pacific. Prace Geol., No. 35, 1966, p. 1-103 , photos BIELECKA , WANDA , and STYK, OLGA. The Maim 1-33 (outcrops, thin sections, faunal assem­ microfauna in the southern part of the Peri­ blages), text figs . 1-33 (maps, range charts, Baltic syneclise (English summary of Polish block diagram, geol. sections, graphs, pie di­ text) .-Poland Instyt. Geol., Kwart. Geol., agrams), tables 1-3 .-Foraminifera used in tom 10, no. 2, 1966, p. 350-366, pI. I , text figs. determining Cretaceous age and Baltic origin 1-3 (geol. map, range charts for foraminifera of glacial xenoliths within Quaternary mo­ and ostracodes) .-Occurrences in bore-hole rainic clays and sands. sections through Oxfordian, Kimmeridgian, and Portlandian beds are indicated for 72 spe­ BAGMANOV, M. A. Krupnye Foraminifery i Moll­ cies of Foraminifera. QuilJque/oculilUl jllrassica juskovaja Fauna Eothenovykh Otlozhenij Ma­ is new. logo Kavkaza.-Akad. Nauk Azerbajdzhan SSR, Instit. Geol., Baku, 1966, p. 1-302, pis. BI ELOKRYS , L. S. Dolomitized Foraminifera (Eng­ 1-91 , text figs. 1-3 (outcrop photos) .--Section lish summary of Ukrainian text) .-Dopovidi on nummulites and other larger Foraminifera Akad. Nauk Ukrains. RSR, No. 11 , 1966, p. (p. 11-68, pis. 1-18). 1467-1471 , text figs. a, b (thin section photo­ graphs) .-In Sarmatian dolomites. BANN ER, F. T., and BLOW, W. H. Two new taxa of the Globorotaliinae (Globigerinacea, Fo­ BIGNOT, G., and GUYADER, J. Decouverte de Fo­ raminifera) assisting determination of the late raminiferes planctoniques dans I'Oxfordien du M iocene/ Middle Miocene Boundary.- Nature, Havre (Seine-Maritime).-Revue de Micro­ v. 207, No. 5004, Sept. 25, 1965, p. 1351- paleontologie, v. 9, No.2, Sept. 1966, p. 104- 1354, text figs. 1-3 .-ln the evolutionary se­ 110, pI. I , text fig. 1 (graph).-Inc1udes a quence of Globorotalia tllmida, G. m esotllmida resume of other Jurassic records-Lithuania, of Tortonian age and G. IIIl1lida plesiotLIIllida Daghestan, Poland, Westphalia, Switzerland, of Messinian age. Spain. Progress in the planktonic foraminiferal biostra­ BLACKMAN, ABN ER, and SOMAYAJULU, B. L. K. tigraphy of the Neogene.-Nature, v. 208, No. Pacific Pleistocene cores: faunal analyses and 5016, Dec. 18, 1965 , p. 1164-1 I 66.-Definition geochronology.--Science, v. 154, No. 3750, of 23 zones within the Miocene to Recent. Nov. 18, 1966, p. 886-889, text figs. 1-5 (map, graphs), tables I, 2.- Dating of 2 cores off BANN ER, F. T ., and EAMES, F. E. Recent progress northern Chile that have been faunally ana­ in world-wide Tertiary stratigraphical correla­ lyzed as to warm and cold intervals, and com­ tion.-Earth Science Reviews, v. 2, 1966, p. parison with 3 Atlantic cores si milarly dated 157-179.-A summary. and analyzed, suggests that glacial and inter­ BARR, F. T. Upper Cretaceous Foraminifera from glacial stages occurred si multaneously in the the Ballydeenlea Chalk, County Kerry, Ire- Pacific and Atlantic. CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE CUSHMAN FOUNDATION FOR FORAMfNIFERAL RESEARCH 89

BOLTOVSKOY, EsTEBAN . Datos nuevos con respecto ings) .-Illustrated catalog of about 210 spe­ a la ubicaci6n de la zona de convergencia sub­ cies (none new, 15 indeterminate); 47 found tropical/ subantartica en base al estudio de los li ving when collected. Included are numerous Foraminfferos planct6nicos.-Anais Acad. Bra­ formae. Described as new are 1 variety and 1 sileira Ciencias, v. 37, suple., Sept. 1965 , p. forma. The area belongs to the West Indian 146-155.-ln the western South Atlantic the zoogeographical province, not to the Argentine zone of convergence of subtropical and sub­ epicontinental province. antarctic waters is recognizable by the species of planktonic Foraminifera each kind of water Contribucion al conocimiento de las Tecamebas de Ushuaia ( carries. No line of contact between the waters Tierra del Fuego, Argentina) .­ was observed, only a zone of mixture. Sub­ Neotropica, v. 12, No. 38, 1966, p. 55-65, 1 tropical waters are found as far south as 37· pl.-Twelve species and 3 formae, none new. 30' S in summer and as far north as 30· S BOLTOVSKOY, E., and THEYER, F. Neuere D aten in winter. iiber rezente Foraminiferen Zentralchiles.­ Zonacion en las latitudes altas del Pacifico Sur Beitdige zur Neotropischen Fauna, Stuttgart, segun los Foraminiferos pl anctonicos vivos.­ Band 4, heft 3, 1965, p. 143-149, 1 pI., table I.- Illustrations of 18 species from the con­ Rev. Museo Argentino Ciencias Nat. "Bernard­ tinental shelf ino Rivadavia," Instit. Nac. Invest. Ciencias of central Chile. Nat. , Hidrobiologia, v. 2, No. I, Oct. 1966, p. BOMBITA, GH. Contributii la corel area Eocenului 1-56, pIs. 1-4, maps 1-14, graphs 1-4, table 1.­ epicontinental din R. P. Romina.-Editura Study based on 151 vertical tows or surface Acad. Repub. Pop. Romine, 1963, 113 p., text plankton samples taken between 90· and 160· figs. I-XV (geol. map, outcrop photos, graphs, W and 50· and 65 · S. Ten species are found columnar sections), text figs. 1-201 (drawings and their percentage distribution plotted on of nummulites, etc.), table I.-Local correla­ maps, defining 4 zones within the area : ant­ tions and encroachment and withdrawal of arctic, mixed subantarctic/ antarctic, subant­ epicontinental seas based on nummulites and arctic, and mixed subtropical/ subantarctic. In related forms. typical Antarctic water only 2 species (or pos­ sibly only deep-floating and shallow-floating BOSE LLlNI, A ., and BROGLIO LORlGA, C. Gli "Stra­ forms of Globigerilla pacilyderma) are found . ti a Triasilla" nel gruppo di Sella (Dolomiti The positions of 2 upwellings, recogni zed by Occidentali) .-Mem. Geopaleont. Univ. Fer­ deep-floating specimens of G. pacilyderma to­ rara, v. 1, fasc. 2, 1965, p. 159-180, pIs. 1-4, gether with benthonic specimens in surface text figs. 1-6 (photomicrographs, drawings).­ waters, are plotted. Upper Triassic assemblage of 16 species (9 in­ determinate) , illustrated in thin section. Resultados oceanograficos sobre la base del BRONNIMANN, PAUL, and PAGE, CLAUDE. Sur quel­ estudio del plancton recogido durante la cam­ ques Foraminiferes du Trias a I'W de J aun pana "Cosetri 11."- Bol. Servo Hidrografia (Canton de Fribourg, Suisse).-Archives des Naval, v. 3, No. 2, 1966, p. 105-114, map, Sciences, v. 19, fasc. 1, Jan.-Apr. 1966, p. 83 - tables 1-3.- ln a study based on 51 surface 9 1, pI. 1, text fig. 1 (map).-Three agglutin­ and vertical tows off Argentina, distinctions ated species, one Trochammina new. between coastal water, Malvin Current (cold from Antarctic), and mixed waters with sub­ BURCKLE, LLOYD H., and SAITO, TSUNEMASA. An tropical predominant or with subantarctic pre­ Eocene dredge haul from the Tuamotu ridge. dominant, are made from the pl anktonic Fo­ - Deep-Sea Research, v. 13, No.6, Dec. 1966, raminifera each carries. Position of contact p. 1207-1208.-Paleoecology and age of boul­ differs from top to bottom of the water column, ders in a dredge haul are interpreted by Fo­ so the coastal waters appear to overlap the raminifera as upper Eocene (deep water fa­ Malvin Current, and the subtropical to over­ cies) and lower middle Eocene (shallow water lap the subantarctic. facies) .

BOLTOVSKOY, ESTEBAN, and LENA, HAYDEE. Fo­ BUTT, AFTAB AHMAD. Late Oligocene Foramini­ raminiferos Recientes de la zona litoral de fera from Escornebeou, SW France.--Scho­ Pernambuco (Brasil) .-Rev. Museo Argen­ tanus & Jens, Utrecht, 1966, 123 p., 8 pIs., 15 tino Ciencias Nat. "Bernardino Rivadavia," text figs. (map, columnar sections, drawings, Instit. Nac. Invest. Ciencias Nat., Hidrobiolo­ graphs, check list), 2 tables.-Illustrated sys­ gia, v. 1, No. 8, May 1966, p. 269-367, pIs. 1- tematic catalog includes 87 species, 1 new. 10, map, text figs. 1-6 (pie di agrams, draw- Escomebovilla (type species R otalia clIvillieri 90 TODD- Rf

Poignant) is erected in the family Discorbid ae. trated. For Victoria, a sequence of 10 foram On the evidence of the pl anktonics combined zones is proposed: 3 in the Eocene, 2 in the with that of the larger Foraminifera, the age Oligocene, and 5 in the Miocene, the sequence is interpreted as Chattian. ending below the top of the Miocene.

BYRN E, JOHN V., FOWLER, G ERALD A., and CASTELAIN, J . Aper~u strati graphique sur la mi­ MALONEY, NEIL J. Uplift of the continental cropaleontologie et la palynologie des sed i­ margin and possible continental accretion off ments secondaires et tertiaires des bassins de Oregon.-Science, v. 154, No. 3757, Dec. 3D, l'Ouest Africain.- Assoc. African Geol. Sur­ 1966, p. 1654-1656, text fig. 1 (map), tables veys, Sedimentary basins of the African coasts, I, 2.-Pliocene and middle Miocene Foram­ part I, Atlantic Coast, symposium edited by inifera in rocks dredged from the continental D . Reyre, Paris, 1966, p. 40-51 , text fi gs. 1-4 shelf and slope indicate depths of deposition (diagram, correl. chart, occur. tables) .- A more than 1,000 meters deeper than their list ing of Foraminifera species that are re­ present depths. garded as significant of various levels from Lower Jurassic to Quaternary in 5 coastal CARALP, MICHELLE, and GAVOILLE, D AN IELE. basins. Etude des Miogypsinidae de la coupe Oligo­ Miocene du forage de Saucats (Gironde).­ CHAROLLAIS, J., BRONNIMANN , P., and ZANINETTI, Actes Soc. Linn. de Bordeaux, v. 100 (Ann. L. Troisieme note sur les Foraminiferes du 1962-63), 1963, p. 85-126, pi s. 1-7, text pIs. Cretace inferieur de la region genevoise. Re­ I, 2, 12 text figs., tables 1-4.-Five species. marques strati graphiques et description de Pseudotextulariel/a salevell sis n. sp. ; Haplo­ Les Miogypsinidae de la coupe profonde de Salles phragmoides joukowskyi n. sp.; Citael/a? fav­ (Gironde).-Bull. Soc. Borda, 1964, p. 239- rei, n. sp.-Archives des Sciences, v. 19, fasc. 275, pIs. 1-7, occur. chart.-Eleven species. I, Jan.-Apr. 1966, p. 23-48, pis. 1-5, text figs. 1-6 (drawings), photo of thin section. CARALP , MICHELL E, REC HINIAC, ALAIN, and VI G­ NEAUX, MICHEL. Utilization du microscope a C HRI STI ANSEN, BENGT O. Notes of the littoral rayons X dans l'etude des structures internes fauna of Bear Island.- Astarte, No. 26, Jan. des microfossiles.-Jour. de Microscopie, v. 1965, p. 1-15, text figs . 1-3 (map, drawings of 4, No.4, 1965, p. 451-460, pi s. 1-3 , text figs. copepnd and amphipod) .-Pateoris hauerill­ 1-4 (diagrams, graph) .-X Ray Microscope aides and Cassidulilla crassa living in associa­ allowing direct observation without the medi­ tion with algae in a rocky bay on Bear Island um of photography. (between Norway and Spitzbergen).

CA RON, MICHELE. Globotruncanidae du Cretace CONIL, R., and Lys, M. Foraminiferes et algues Superieur du synclinal de la Gruyere (Pre­ du Tournaisien Superieur et du Viseen de la alpes medianes, Suisse).-Revue de Micro­ Belgi que.- Ann. Soc. Geol. Belgique, tome paleontologie, v. 9, No.2, Sept. 1966, p. 68- 89, Bull. No. 6, Nov. 1966, p. 207-221, pi s. 1- 93, pIs. 1-6, text fi gs. 1-6 (map, columnar sec­ 3.-Ten species of Foraminifera, Archae­ tion, phylogenetic diagram, drawings, range spJwera barbata nov. sp. chart).-Twenty-six species ( I new) and 6 CRESP IN , IR ENE. Foraminifera in Cabawin No. 1 subspecies. wei I.-Australi a Bureau Min. Resources, CARTE R, A. N . Tertiary Foraminifera from Gipps­ Geol., and Geophysics, Publ. No. 43, 1964, p. land, Victoria, and their stratigraphical sig­ 39-49.-Lists of lower Albian, Aptian, and nificance.-Geol. Survey of Victoria, Mem. Permian species. No. 23, 1964, p. 1-154, pIs. 1-1 7, text figs. 1- DERI N, B., and REISS, Z. Jurassic microfacies of 36 (maps, columnar sections, geol. section, Israel.-Israel Instit. of Petro!., Spec. Pub!., range charts, correl. charts, drawings, graphs, Oct. 1966, 43 p., 27 pis. (photomicrographs), phylogenetic diagram), tables 1-9 .-The pres­ tables I, 2 (correl. table, columnar sections). ent study is based on 38 sa mples making up a -Three hundred and twe nty thin-section illus­ composite standard sequence, covering 12 rock trations with their organic remains identified. units of Oligocene to early Pl iocene age. All but the lowest 3 (Eocene) units of II previ­ DI EN I, IGINIO, MASSARI, FRANCESCO, and MONT­ ously-defined faunal units are present at Gipps­ ANAR I, LORIS. II Paleogene dei dintorni de land. Descriptions and distribution of 102 spe­ Orosei (Sardegna) .-Mem. Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat., cies (18 new and 1 given a new name) from v. 14, fasc. 3, 1966, p. 139-183, pis. 8-11, text Gippsland are included and many are illus- pi s. 1-4, text figs. 1-5 (maps, correl. diagram, CON TR IBUTIONS F R OM THE CUSHlI.tA N F()UNDATION F OR FORAMIN IFERAL RES EARCH 91

photomicrograph, geol. section) .-Includes an of Cenomanian, Turonian, Campanian, Mae­ illustrated systematic catalog of nummulites, strichtian, and Dano-Paleocene age. alveolines, and di scocyclines (29 species, none new) by which the Cuisian section is sub­ GORBATCHIK, T. N. The first discovery of the fo­ divided. raminiferal genus 5iphonillella in the Valangin­ ian of the Crimea (in Russian): Paleont. EICHER, DON L. Foraminifera from Belle Fourche Zhurnal, No.3, 1966, p. 133-135, 1 text-fig. Shale and equivalents, Wyoming and Montana. -5. antiqua, sp. nov. -Jour. Paleontology, v. 41, No. I, Jan. 1967, p. 167-188, pis. 17-19, text figs. 1-6 (map, GRIG ELlS, A. , and GARUNKSTI ENE, S. New data range charts, correl. charts) .-Thirty-four on two genetic groups of Foraminifera of the species (I new) and 1 subspecies. Upper Cretaceous deposits of Lithuania (in Russian) , ill Palaeontology and Stratigraphy EL-NAGGAR, ZAGHLOUL RAGHIB. Stratigraphy and of the Baltic and Byelorussia, No.1 (6).­ planktonic Foraminifera of the Upper Creta­ Ministry of Geol. of U.S.S.R., Vilnius, 1966, ceous-lower Tertiary succession in the Esna­ p. 377-411 , pis. 1-4, text figs . 1-10 (phylo­ Idfu region, Nile Valley, Egypt, U.A.R.­ genetic diagrams, drawings) .-Five species (I Bull. British Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Geol., Supple. new), in the genetic group Gavelillella am­ 2, 1966, p. 1-291 , pis. 1-23 , text figs. 1-18 monoides extending from Cenomanian to (maps, correl. diagrams, correl. charts, colum­ Maestrichtian, and 6 species (1 new) in the nar section, illustr. range charts, range charts, genetic group Reussella kelleri extending from phylogenetic diagram, distrib. and abund. Turonian to Campanian. table) .-In a succession extending from Cam­ panian to lower Eocene, a disconformity hav­ GRIGORJAN, S. M. Assiliny Paleogenovykh Ot­ ing reworked Cretaceous fossils was found lozhenij Armjanskoj SSR i ikh Stratigrafiches­ separating the Maestrichtian part of the Esna koe Znachenie.-Akad. Nauk Armjanskoj Shale from the Danian part and representing SSR, Izvestija, tom 19, no. 5, 1966, p. 3-19, uppermost Maestrichtian and lower and mid­ pis. 1-3 .-Five species of Assilina, one having dle Danian. Originally zoned on macrofossils, 2 new varieties. the section can be subdivided into 10 plank­ tonic zones by which a world-wide correlation GROISS, J. TH. Das Problem der Maim Alpha/ Beta­ can be made. Systematic part includes 119 Grenze in mikropaHiontologischer Sicht.­ species and subspecies (20 species and 6 sub­ Erlanger geol. Abh., Heft 62, Dec. 5, 1966, p. species new) in the planktonic genera A bath­ 92-104, text figs. 17-22 (graphs), tables 4, 5. omphalus, Globotrullcalla, Rugoglobigerilla, -Boundary identified by Foraminifera in 17 Trinitella, Hedbergella , Globigerilla, and profiles. Globorotalia. GROZDILOVA, L. P. Foraminifery Verkhnego Kar­ GANEL INA, R. A. Foraminifery Turnejskikh i bona Severnogo Timana, ill Mikrofauna SSSR, Nizhnevizejskikh Otlozhenij Nekotorykh Rajo­ Sbornik 14.-Russia Vses. neft. nauchno-issl. nov Kamsko-Kinel'skoj Vpadiny, ill Mikro­ geol.-razved. instit., Trudy (n. ser.), vyp. 250, fauna SSSR, Sbornik 14.-Russia Vses. neft. 1966, p. 254-331, pis. 1-15, tables I, 2.-De­ nauchno-issl. geol.-razved. instit., Trudy (n. scriptions and illustrations of 56 fusulinids, 47 ser.), vyp. 250, 1966, p. 64-151 , pIs. 1-12, species and 1 forma new, from the Upper map, check list.-Illustrated systematic catalog Carboniferous. of 59 species (23 new) , classified in 19 genera (3 new) , mostly in the families Tournayellidae GUDlNA , V. 1. Foraminifery i Stratigrafija Chet­ and Endothyridae. New are Uvatoumayella vertichnykh Otlozhenij Severo-Zapada Sibiri. /Iva gen. et sp. n. and Uvie!la aborigella gen. -Akad. Nauk SSSR, Sibirskoe Otdel., Institut et sp. n., both in the Tournayellidae and Geol. Geofiz., 1966, 132 p., 13 pis., 27 text Corrigotubella posll eri gen. et sp. n. in the figs. (map, drawings, well correl. diagrams, Lituolidae. graphs, paleogeographic maps) , 6 tables-De­ G ,woR-BIEDOWA , EUGENIA . The Upper Cretaceous tailed study of Quaternary in numerous shal­ deposits in north east Poland in the light of low well sections near Obskaya Guba in north­ micropaleontological researches (English sum­ western Siberia. Systematic section on Foram­ mary of Polish text) .-Poland Instyt. Geol., inifera includes 31 species (9 new) and 2 sub­ Kwart. Geol., tom 10, No.3, 1966, p. 809- species (1 new). Plallocass;dulina gen. nov. 819, fig. 1 {occur. and abund. table).-Occur­ (type species Cassidulina norcrOss; Cushman) rence of 76 species of Foraminifera in sections is erected. 92 T ODD- RgCENT LITERAT t.: R}<~ ON THE FORA.M IN IFERA

H EEZEN, BRUCE C., and SHERIDAN, ROBERT E. Maestrichtian, Danian and Paleocene Foramini­ Lower Cretaceous rocks (Neocomian-Albian ) fera. The Foraminifera of the type-Mae­ dredged from Blake Escarpment.--Science, v. strichtian in South Limburg, Netherlands, to­ 154, No. 3757, Dec. 30, 1966, p. 1644-1647, gether wi th the Foraminifera of the underly­ text figs. 1-3 (map, profile, photos), table 1.­ ing Gulpen Chalk and the overlying calcareous Foraminifera and nannoconids found in 4 sediments; the Foraminifera of the Danske places on the escarpment: those between 3,000 Kalk and the overl yi ng greensand s and clays and 5,000 meters indicating shallow deposition; as found in Denmark.-Palaeontographica, those from 2,375 meters laid down near their Suppl.-Band 10, Sept. 1966, p. 1-376, pIs. 1- present depth. 86, text fi gs. 1-178 (diagrams, maps, columnar sections, drawings, outcrop sketches, graphs), HILTERMANN, H EINRI CH. Klassifikation rezenter tables 1-69 (check li sts) .-A compilation of Brack- und Salinar-Wasser in ihrer Anwendung faunal lists, illustrations, and some brief spe­ fiir fossile Bildungen.-Zeitschr. Deutsch. cies descriptions from 17 zones in Holland (5 Geol. Gesellschaft, Jahrg. 1963, Hannover, in the Gulpen Chalk of late Campanian and Band 115, teil 2, 3, July 1966, p. 463-496, pI s. Maestrichtian age; 7 in the Maestricht Tuff II, 12, text fi gs . 1-7 (graphs, map), tables 1-4. Chalk of Dano-Maestrichtian age; 4 in the Fossil examples illustrated. Paleocene; and I in the Kunrade Chalk prob­ ably of Paleocene age) and also from the Fortschritte der MikropaIaontologie in Deutsch­ Danske Kalk and beds at the Danian-Paleo­ land mit einer Bibliographie fUr das Jahr 1965 . cene boundary in Denmark. Species character­ - Palaont. Zeitschr., Stuttgart, Band 40, Nr. istic of each zone are listed and check lists 3/ 4, Oct. 1966, p. 277-294. are included for numerous localities. Over 900 VAN HI NTE, J. E. Some Foraminifera and correla­ species are involved; 21 are described as new tion of the type Campanian.-Proc. Second and Vacuovalvulina nov. gen. (genotype Mars­ West African Micropaleont. Colloquium, Ibad­ SOil ella keyzeri va n Bellen ) is erected in the an, June 18-July 1, 1965, Leiden, 1966, p. 86- Valvulinidae. 91, text fi gs. I, 2 (zone chart, graph) .-By H OFKER, JAN JR . Studies on the family Orbitolini­ planktonics. dae.-Palaeontographica, Band 126, Abt. A, HOFK ER, J . Foraminifera of the Cretaceous of 1966, p. 1-34, pIs. 1-10, text figs. I-II (draw­ South-Limburg, Netherlands. LXXX. Poly­ ings, phylogenetic diagrams, graphs).-Twen­ morphinidae from the holes in the hard ground ty-two species ( I new) are classified in 3 gen­ covering the Md in the quarry Curfs near era: Orbitolina, Dictyoconlls, and Lituonella. Houthem , South-Limburg.-Natuurhist. Maandblad, 54' Jrg., No. 9, Sept. 29, 1965, p. Zur Evolution der Cenoman-Orbitolinen. Eine 111-117, text fi gs. 1-32.-lIIustrations of 23 Entgegnung an R. SC HROEDER.- Neues J ahrb. Geol. Palaont. Mh., Stuttgart, Band 4, April species mostl y from the Paleocene. 1966, p. 193-207, text figs. 1-5 (graphs, photo­ LXXXI. Coleites reticulosus (Plummer) .­ micrographs, drawings, diagram ). Natuurhist. Maandblad, 54' Jrg., No. 10, Oct. 27, 1965, p. 136-1 38, text fi gs. 1-7. H UANG, TUNYOw. Planktonic Foraminifera from the Somachi Formation, Kikai-Jima, Kago­ LXXXII. Once again Linderina visserae Hofker. shima prefecture, Japan.-Trans. Proc. Palae­ -Natuurhist. Maandblad, 55 ' Jrg., No. I, ont. Soc. Japan, n. ser., No. 62, June 30, 1966, Jan. 26, 1966, p. 13-15, text figs. I , 2. p. 217-233, pIs. 27 , 28 , text fi gs. 1-3 (map, LXXXIII. Tremastegina roestae (Visser ) .­ columnar secti on, graph), table l.- IJIustra'ed Natuurhist. Maandblad, 55 ' Jrg., No. 2, Feb. catalog and quantitative record of 37 specie 25, 1966, p. 24-26, text fi gs. 1-9.-ln tbe Up­ and 3 subspecies, none new, of early Plio­ per Cretaceous, Higb Md. cene age. LXXXIV. The structure of Karreria fallax Huss, FELlCJA. Les Foraminiferes agglutinants Rzehak.-Natuurhist. Maandblad, 55 ' Jrg. , de Ia serie soussilesienne de I'unite petrolifere No.4, April 27, 1966, p. 58-60, I pl.--Speci­ de Weglowka ( Karpates Flyscheuses Polon­ mens from the type locali ty and from Den­ aises) (French resume of Polish text).-Polska mark and Holland are compared as to ag­ Akad. Nauk , Prace Geol. 34, 1966, p. 1-71 . glutination and secondary thickening by ad­ pI s. 1-9, tables I, 2.-Fifty-four species, 4 new. dition of cbalky or clear calcitic material to from Lower and Upper Cretaceous, Paleo­ chamber walls. cene, and Eocene. CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE CUSHMAN FOUNDATION FOR FORAMINIFERAL RESEARCH 93

JURKIEWICZ, HENRYK. Foraminifers of the Lower LE CALVEZ, Y. l:.tude des Foraminiferes de la Zechstein in the vicinity of Galezice and Kajet­ carotte C24 (Baie de la Vilaine).-Bull. Bu­ anow in the Swietokrzyskie Mountains (Eng­ reau Recherches Geo!. et Min., No.5, 1966, lish summary of Polish text).-Poland Instyt. p. 63-72, pis. I, 2, tables I, 2 (check list, Geo!., Biu!. 195, 1966, p. 159-200, pis. 1-5, abund. table) .-List of species in 16 samples text figs. 1, 2 (map, corre!' diagram), table I. from a 3.8-meter core, with some species -Three Foraminifera zones. Twenty-eight spe­ illustrated. cies described and illustrated (4 species and a subspecies new). LIDZ, LOUIS. Deep-sea Pleistocene biostratigraphy. -Science, v. 154, No. 3755, Dec. 16, 1966, p. KA ESLER, ROGER L. Quantitative re-evaluation of 1448-1452, text figs. 1-5 (graphs, drawings) , ecology and distribution of Recent Foramini­ tables I , 2.-Based on a Caribbean Sea core fera and Ostracoda of Todos Santos Bay, Baja previously estimated to contain a sedimentary California, Mexico.-Univ. Kansas Paleont. record of 225,000 years. Detailed paleontolog­ Contribs., Paper 10, Oct. 31, 1966, p. I-50, ical analysis, insuring a 5 percent error limit, text figs. 1-23 (maps, graphs), tables 1-14.­ showed temperature oscillations that correlated To show that use of numerical taxonomic well with oscillations obtained by oxygen iso­ method of biofacies analysis may give results tope method. closely similar to results based on qualitative interpretation. LIPPS, JERE H. Wall structure, systematics, and phylogeny of Cenozoic planktonic Foramini­ KENNETT, J. P. Biostratigraphy and paleoecology fera.-Jour. Paleontology, v. 40, No.6, Nov. in upper Miocene-lower Pliocene sections in 1966, p. 1257-1274, p!. 155, text fi gs. 1-5 Wairarapa and southern Hawke's Bay.-Trans. (drawings, diagrams, phylogenetic diagram), Roy. Soc. New Zealand, Geol., v. 4, No.3, tables I, 2.-Because gross morphologic char­ June 30, 1966, p. 83-102, text figs . 1-12 (maps, acters of tests probably have developed re­ columnar sections), tables 1-5 (range chart, peatedly by convergent evolution, a better cor reI. charts) .-Zonation of the deep-water basis for classification and phylogeny is micro­ facies by Foraminifera and the shallow-water structure of wall. Through thin-section study facies by Mollusca. 3 kinds were found: (a) fine crystals perpen­ dicular to the test wall, resulting in a smooth KOCHANSKY-DEVIDE, VANDA . Die altesten Fusul­ surface; (b) short prominent crystals sur­ inidenschichten Sioweniens.-Bull. Geo!., In­ rounded by finer ones within the wall, result­ stit. pour Recherches Geol. a Zagreb, tome 18, ing in a pitted surface; and (c) crystals elon­ No.2, 1965, p. 333-336, pI. I.-A new sub­ gated into spines and surrounded by finer species in Protriticites. crystals within the wall, resulting in a hispid surface. Microstructure combined with type of KOHLER, EDUARD. Les Alveolines du Paleocene de chamber coiling is the basis for classification la zone des klippes de la Vallee du Viih.­ and phylogeny: 4 families, 4 subfamilies, and Geo!. Sbornik, Geo!. Carpathica, Siov. Akad. 33 genera. vied, v. 17, No.2, Dec. 1966, p. 265-270, figs. 1-6 .-A /veolilla (Glomalveolilla) primae va and LYNTS, GEORGE W. Variation of foraminiferal subspecies ludwigi . standing crop over short lateral distances in Buttonwood Sound, Florida Bay.-Limnology ' RAEVA, E. lA . On the scope of the species Mar­ and Oceanography, v. II, No.4, Oct. 1966, p. gillulilla bell"'i (Reuss) (English summary of 562-566, text figs. I, 2 (map, table), tables 1- R u s s ian t ext) .- Mezhvedom. Respublik. 5.-Foraminiferal colonies and microenviron­ Nauchn. Sbornik, Paleont. Sbornik No.2, vyp. ments vary in size; under the unstable condi­ 2, Izdate!. L'vov. Universit., 1965, p. 3-7 , I tions of Buttonwood Sound they range to at p!.-Marginulilla be"",i and M. illfracompres­ least 30 m2. sa are distinct and stable and thus separable. MACGILLAVRY, H. J. Variability of larger Foram­ LESEDEVA, N. S. Foraminifery Srednego Karbona inifera. Part I: Natural position of zero val­ Severnogo Timana, ill Mikrofauna SSSR, ues.-Proc. Kon. Nederl. Akad. Wetenschap­ Sbornik 14.-Russia Vses. neft. nauchno-iss!. pen, seL B, v. 68, No.5, 1965, p. 335-355, geo!.-razved. instit., Trudy (n. seL), vyp. 250, text figs. 1-4 (graphs), tables 1-7. 1966, p. 176-229, pis. 1-12, tables I, 2.-De­ scriptions and illustrations of 40 fusulinids, II MAISURADZE, L. S. New species of Quinquelocu­ species and I subspecies new, from the Mid­ lina from middle Sarmatian deposits of Meg­ dle Carboniferous. relia (western Georgia) (English summary of 94 TODD-RECE fT LITERATU RloJ ON THE FORAMINlFERA

R u s s ian t ext) .-Mezhvedom. Respublik. VII Congress, Sofia, Sept. 1965, Repts., pt. 2, Nauchn. Sbornik, Paleont. Sbornik No. 2, vyp. v. I, 1965, p. 37-41. 2, Izdatel. L'vov. Universit., 1965, p. 16-23 , pis. 1, 2.- Three species and 3 subspecies, MONTANARI , LOR1S. Geologia del Monte Pelle­ all new. grino (Palermo) . Parte I.-Stratigrafi a e tet­ tonica. Parte 2.- Documentazione paleonto­ MAMONTOVA, YEo V. A new genus of large Fo­ logica.-Riv. Min. Siciliana, v. 15, Nos. 88-90, raminifers from the lower Barremian of Turk­ July-Dec . 1964, p. 173-197, pi s. 1-4, text figs. menia (translation) .- Paleont. Zhurnal, 1966, 1-17 (geol. maps, columnar sections, photo­ No. I, p. 145-147, text fi gs. I, 2.-Ba/klwllia, micrographs, geol. sections); v. 16, Nos. 91- gen. nov., in the Meandropsinidae. 93, Jan.-June 1965, p. 72-106, pis. 5-20.-1n­ cludes an illustrated catalog of 63 species, MARSH, OW EN T. Geology of Escambia and Santa none new-mostly orbitolines, alveolines, and Rosa Counties, western Florida Panhandle.­ nummulites. Florida Geol. Survey Bull . No. 46, 1966, p. 1-140, pis. 1-5, text fi gs. 1-28 (maps, colum­ MO ULLADE, M. Elude stratigraphique et micro­ nar section, geol. sections, fence diagram, iso­ paleontologique du Cretace lnfe rieur de la pach maps, correl. diagrams, outcrop photos, "Fosse Vacontienne."-Documents Lab. Geol. topographic profiles, paleogeographic maps, Fac. Sci. Lyon, No. 15, fasc. 1, 2, 1966, p. I- fault map, fault di agrams, gravity anomaly 369, pis. 1-17, text figs. 1-27 (drawings, range map) , tables 1-16.-Smaller Foraminifera re­ charts, maps) .-Includes beautifully illustrated ported from several Eocene, Oli gocene, and systematic catalog of about 100 species and Miocene formations and some are illustrated subspecies of smaller and larger Foraminifera from the lower member of the Pensacola -13 species and 2 subspecies new and 1 sub­ Clay (Miocene). species given a new name. Parallel biozonation of Foraminifera and ammonites in the interval MCCRONE, ALlSTAtR W., and SCHAFER, CHARL ES. Valanginian to Vraconian is indicated on charts Geochemical and sedimentary environments of showing ranges of species of both groups. Foraminifera in the Hudson River estuary, New York.-Micropaleontology, v. 12, No.4, MULDI NI-MAM UZIC, SLAVICA. The microfauna of Oct. 1966, p. 505-509, text figs. I, 2 (loc. map, limestones and of the clastic development in salinity diagram) , tables 1-4.- 0nly Miliam­ the Paleogene of central Istria (English sum­ milia and A mmomargillulilla survive at 5%0 , mary of Jugoslavian text ) .-Bull. Geol., In­ but chitinous specimens of A mmollia and stit. pour Recherches Geol. a Zagreb, tome 18, Trochammina occur in low salinities. No.2, 1965, p. 281-289. MCGOWRAN, BRIAN . Bilamellar walls and septal MURRAY, J. W. The Foraminiferida of the Persian flaps in the Robertinacea.-Micropaleontology, Gulf. 5. The shelf off the Trucial Coast.­ v. 12, No. 4, Oct. 1966, p. 477-488, pis. 1-4. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeo­ - Demonstrated by thin-section photographs. ecology, Elsevier Publ. Co., Amsterdam, v. 2. 1966, p. 267-278, text figs. 1-4 (map, graphs). MEN DEZ, IGNACIO A. Foraminiferos, edad y cor­ -Quantitative study based on 28 sa mples relacion estratigrafica del Salamanquense de from 3 profiles across the shelf. Miliolids and Punta Peligro (45 ' 30'S; 67 ' II'W), Provincia textu lariids are dominant: operculinids, pen­ del Chubut.- Rev. Asoc. Geol. Argentina, v. eroplids, elphidiids, Ammollia , R osa/ina, and 21, No.2, April-June 1966, p. 127-157, pis. Loxoslomul11 are minor elements. Dead speci­ 1-4, text fig. 1 (columnar section), map, tables mens, some black, were abundant but living 1, 2 (check list, correl. chart).-Eighteen spe­ specimens were not found. Bl ack specimens cies correlated with middle-upper Danian. constitute large proportions of the population MERIC, ENGIN. A propos de la reproduction des in some places and are interpreted as older Orbitoididae (Deuxieme partie) .-Bull. Min. than white ones. They are larger, worn, in­ Res. Explor. Instit. Turkey, No. 66, April clude more broken forms and show less species 1966, Foreign Ed., p. 147-153, pis. 1-3, text diversity but include more peneroplids. fig. I (map) , 1 table.- Comparisons between 3 species. NEST EROV ITCH, V. Several species of lagenids of the Upper Cretaceous deposits of Byelorussia MICHAILOVA-JOWTCHEVA, P., and TRIFONOVA, EK. (in Russian), ill Palaeontology and Stratig­ Les zones microfauniques du Trias et du Cre­ raphy of the Baltic and the Byelorussia, No_ tace inferieur entre Ie village Dolen Dabnik et 1 (6).-Ministry of Geol. of U.S.S.R., Vilni us. Ie Danube.-Carpatho-Balkan Geol. Assoc., 1966, p. 413-427, pI. 1, text fig. 1 (map), table CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE CUSHMAN :F'QUNDATION FOR FORAl\l1NlFERAL RESEARCH 95

l.---Six species and 4 subspecies in the genera PHL EGE R, FRED B., and BRADSHAW, JOH N S. Sed­ Frofldicularia, Citilarifla, Neoflabellitw, and imentary environments in a marine marsh.­ Palmula, having narrow stratigraphic ranges. Science, v. 154, No. 3756, Dec. 23 , 1966, p. 1551-1553, text figs. 1-3 (range chart, graphs). NORLING, ERIK. On the genus [eiltyolaria Wede­ ---Continuous recordings in Mission Bay, Cal­ kind 1937.-Sver. Geo!. Unders., ser. C, Nr. ifornia, show diurnal and seasonal variations 613 , Arsbok 60, Nr. 8, 1966, p. 1-20, pis. 1-4, related to tidal flu shing, air temperature vari­ text fi g. I (map).-Four Liassic species from ations, sunlight duration, and marsh pl ant southern Sweden, none new, and a new diag­ metabolism. nosis of this Permian to Jurassic genus (type species Frolldieularia bieostata d'Orbigny). PISCHVA NOVA, L. S. On the correlation of the Mi­ ocene of the western districts of USSR and ODRZYWOLSKA-BI EN KOWA , EWA . Micropalaeonto­ Italy by means of pl anctonic Foraminifera logical stratigraphy of the Miocene in the (English summary of Russian text).-Mezhve­ north-eastern margin of the Carpathian fore­ dom. Respublik. Nauchn. Sbornik, Paleont. deep (English summary of Polish text) .­ Sbornik No.2, vyp. 2, Izdatel. L'vov. Univer­ Poland Instyt. Geo!., K wart. Geo!. , tom 10, sit., 1965, p. 8-15 , 2 pis., tables I, 2.-ln ad­ no. 2, 1966, p. 432-441 , text figs. I, 2 (map, dition, 2 new benthonic species are described. corre!' diagram ), tables I, 2.-Upper Tortoni­ an and Sarmatian Foraminifera. POAG , C. W. Paynes Hammock (Lower Mio­ cene?) Foraminifera of Alabama and Missis­ OMARA, SAYED, VANGEROW, ERNST FRIEDRICH , and sippi.-Micropaleontology, v. 12, No.4, Oct. KENAWY, ABBAS. Neue Fund von Foramini­ 1966, p. 393-440, pis. 1-9, text-figs . 1-12 (loc. feren im Oberkarbon von Abu Darag, Agypten. map, columnar sections, tables, check list, -PaHiont. Zeitschr., Stuttgart, Band 40, Nr. graphs, line drawing) .-lIIustrated systematic 3/ 4, Oct. 1966, p. 244-256, p!. 24, text figs. I, catalog includes 138 species, 32 new and 14 in­ 2 (map, columnar section) .-Eighteen species determinate. A reaflispira (type species A. bac­ and 1 new subspecies. ata n. sp.) is erected in the family Rotaliidae. The formation is correlated with planktonic D'ONOFRIO, SARA. I Foramini feri del neostratotipo zones of the Cipero Formation of Trinidad. del Messiniano.-Ann. Mus. Geo!. Bologna, ser. 2, v. 32, fa sc. 2, 1964, p. 409-461, pIs. 55- PODOB INA, V. M. Foraminifery Verkhnego Mela 59 (assemblages), text fig. I (columnar sec­ Zapadno-Sibirskoj Nizmennosti .-Akad. Nauk tions ), table I (occur. table) .-Includes a SSSR, Sibirskoe Otde!., Instit. Geo!. i Geofiz., micropaleontologic appendix (100 species) and 1966, p. 1-148, pI s. 1-19, text figs. 1-18 (maps, photomicrographs of assemblages typical of drawings, phylogenetic diagrams, paleogeo­ Tortonian, Messinian, and lower Pliocene. graphic maps) , 3 tables (correl. charts).­ Thirty-five species (7 new) and 14 subspecies PHLEGER , FRED B. Patterns of living marsh Fo­ (7 new) from Turonian and lower Senonian, raminifera in south Texas coastal lagoons.­ mostly lituolids and trochamminids. Bo!. Soc. Geo!. Mexicana, tomo 28, No. I, 1965 , p. 1-44, text figs. 1-22 (maps, range POROS HIN A, L. A. Novye Predstaviteli Discorbis chart, histogram), tables l-IO.-Quantitative Neokomskikh Otlozhenij Severo-Vostochnogo analyses of specimens are recorded and distri­ Azerbajdzhana.-Izvestija Akad. Nauk Azer­ bution patterns studied in 10 areas of marine bajdzhan. SSR, ser. nauk 0 zemle, no. 3, 1966, marsh; 26 species, plus II rare ones, are in­ p. 8-1 4, 1 pl.-Five species and a subspecies, volved. Five zones are recogni zable by their all new, from the Neocomian. distinctive assemblages. Living populations range from 2 to 20 species per sa mple; fewer PORTNAJA, V. L. New data in structure and dis­ in the marsh than in the bay and mud fiat areas. tribution of Diseoeyclifla shell and methods of stu d y (in Russian) .-Biu!. Moskovskogo Li ving Foraminifera from coastal marsh south­ Obshch. Ispytat. Prirody, nov. ser., tom 71, western Florida.-Bo!. Soc. Geo!. Mexicana, Otde!. Geo!., tom 41 , vyp. 4, 1966, p. 129-137, tomo 28, No. I, 1965 , p. 45-59, p!. I, text figs . text figs. 1-8. 1-3c (maps), table I.- In mangrove bay areas calcareous Foraminifera are dominant over PTUKHJAN , A. E. Materialy k Stratigrafii Sredne go arenaceous ones. Miliammilla !usea is rare and Eothena Armenii.-Akad. Nauk Armjanskoj. is found in only a few sa mples. Twenty-nine SSR, Izvestija, tom 19, no. 5, 1966, p. 26-37, species are recorded quantitatively from 25 pis. I, 2.-Four species of Nummulites from samples. middle Eocene of Armenia. 96 TODD-RECENT LITERATURE ON THE FOR~llNJFERA

RAU , WELDON W. Stratigraphy and Foraminifera catalog includes 197 species and subspecies, of the Satsop River area, southern Olympic none new, and their local stratigraphic ranges Peninsul a, Washington.- Washington Div. are indicated. Typical assemblages of 56 fau­ Mines and Geol., Bull. No. 53 , 1966, p. 1-66, nas from Valanginian to upper Maestrichtian text figs . 1-9 (map, geol. map, columnar sec­ are illustrated by photomicrographs. tions, check lists, range chart) , tables I, 2.­ In 13,000 feet of section, ranging from Ulati­ SANDERSON, G. A. A bibliography of the family sian (middle Eocene) through Narizian, Ref­ Fusulinidae, addendum 3.-Jour. Paleontol­ ugian, and Zemorrian to Saucesian (lower ogy, v. 40, No.6, Nov. 1966, p. 1402-1408. Miocene ), 170 species of Foraminifera are re­ SARTONI, SAMUELE. Osservazioni sullo studio delle corded as to their ranges and occurrences in Globotruncanidae in sezione sottile.-Giornale 4 measured sections. di Geologia, Ann. Mus. Geo!. Bologna, ser. 2, v. 33 , fasc. I, 1965, p. 147-158.-Better to REISS, Z., and GVIRTZMAN, G. Subsurface Neo­ identify only groups of forms when studying gene stratigraphy of Israel.-Internat. Union globotruncanids in thin section in order to Geol. Sci., Proc. Third Sess. in Berne 8-13 avoid misidentification and its resulting con­ June 1964, Leiden, 1966, p. 312-3 46, pis. 88- fusion. 99, text figs. 83-87 (isopach map, range chart, paleogeographic map, geol. section, diagram). Stratigrafia dei terreni sedimentari del Foglio - Includes illustrations of planktonic species 208-Dorgali.-Giornale di Geologia, Ann. used in age determinations between late Eocene Mus. Geo!. Bologna, ser. 2, v. 33, fasc. I, and Pliocene in Israel. 1965, p. 159-173, pis. 15, 16.- Jurassic-Cre­ taceous microfacies illustrated in thin section. ROCHA , A. TAVARES, and UOALDO, M. LOURDES. Foraminiferos do Terciario Superior e do SCHROEDER, ROLF, and CHAROL LAIS, J EAN. Quatri­ Quaternario da Provincia Portuguesa de Timor. erne note sur les Foraminiferes du Cretace in­ -Mem. Portuga l Junta Invest. Ultramar, 2nd terieur de la region genevoise. Sur quelques ser., No. 51 , 1964, p. 1-1 80, pis. 1-19, text figs. Orbitolinidae des facies urgoniens.-Archives 1-3 (geo!. map, pie di agrams), tables 1-3 des Sciences, v. 19, fasc . I, Jan.-Apr. 1966, p. (range chart, check lists) .-IIIustrated system­ 93-1l4, pis. 1-3, text-fig. 1 (map) . atic catalog includes 247 species, varieties, and SCORZIELLO, RAF FAELE. Osservazioni sulla distri­ formae, none new-203 from late Tertiary buzione batimetrica nel Golfo di Napoli di beds of medium-depth facies and 48 from AmphicorYlla scalaris (Batsch), Foraminifera. Quaternary beds of shallow, coral-reef facies, - Pubbl. staz. zoo!. Napoli, v. 35, 1966 , p. from the eastern part of the island of Timor. 1l5-129, text figs . 1-10 (map, graphs, photo­ SADA, K1MIYOSHI , and YOKOYAMA , TSURUO . Up­ micrographs) , tables I, 2.-0ptimum bathymet­ per Permian fu sulinids from the Taishaku ric distribution is between 200 and 450 meters Limestone in West Japan.-Trans. Proc. Pa­ for both micro- and megalospheric forms. laeont. Soc. Japan, n. ser., No. 63, Sept. 30, Scorr, G . H. Utility of Haeuslerella Parr (Fo­ 1966, p. 303-315, pi s. 33, 34, text ti g. I (map) , raminifera) in New Zealand Middle Tertiary tables 1-5.-Four species and a subspecies. stratigraphy.-New Zealand Geo!. Survey Pa­ SAIDOVA, KH. M. Distribution of species of ben­ leont. Bull. 38, June 1965, p. 1-48, text figs. thic agglutinating Foraminifera in the Pacific 1-78 (drawings, scatter diagrams, histograms, (translation ) .-Oceanology, Acad. Sci. USSR, graphs, carrel. diagram), tables I, 2.-Haeus­ v. 6, No. I, 1966, p. 117-120, text fi gs. 1-4 lerella progresses from a regularly biserial (graphs) .-Quantitative analyses of 420 ag­ (textul arian) habit in the upper Oligocene to glutinating species in terms of numbers of spe­ an irregularly biserial-uniserial (bigenerine ) cies at depth and latitudinal ranges. habit in the lower Miocene. Precise measure­ ment of "attachment index" (degree of uni­ SALAJ, JOS EF, and SAMUEL, ONDREJ. Foramini­ seriality of final chamber) can be used to fera der Westkarpaten-Kreide (Slowakei).­ locate stratigraphic position. Bratislava, 1966, 291 p., 48 pis., 18 text figs. , 37 tables, 6 Beilage (geo!. maps, lithologic Discrimination within Haeuslerella Parr (Fo­ profiles, geo!. sections).-The Cretaceous se­ raminifera) .-N ew Zealand Jour. Geo!. Geo­ quence between upper Hauterivian and Mae­ phys., v. 9, No. 3, Oct. 1966, p. 203-211, text strichtian is subdivided by 19 zones and 14 figs. 1-9 (drawings, graphs) .- Measurements subzones based on smaller Foraminifera, most­ of width, thickness, and proloculus diameter ly planktonic kinds. An illustrated systematic are useful aids to identification in instances CONTRIBliTIONS FROM THl<::; CUSHMAN F"OUN DATlON F OR F ORAM1 N IFERAL RES EARCH 97

where the major basis of discrimination (wall cene, and Recent are recorded and some spe­ structure) is difficult to use. cies illustrated. Correlation by pl anktonics of some Tertiary fau nas from the western Pacific SKIPP, BETTY, HOLCOMB, L. D., and GUTSCHICK, is discussed. R. C. Tournayellinae, calcareous Foramini­ fera, in Mississippian rocks of North America, UJII E, HIROS HI. "Evolutionary Line" of Miocene with translations from the origin al Russian of Miogypsinid Popul ations- Restudy of tbe Ja­ descriptions of several key genera and species panese Miogypsinids Part 2.-Bull. Natl. Sci. by IVAN MITTIN and BETTY SKIPp.--Spec. Mus., Tokyo, v. 9, No.3, Sept. 20, 1966, p. Publ. No. 9, Cushman Found. Foram. Res., 413-430, pis. 1-6, text figs . \-6 (graphs, m ap, Dec. 30, 1966, p. 1-38, pis. 1-7, text figs. \ -7 diagram). (chart, range charts, evolution diagram, draw­ ings, map).-Ten species (4 new) and 1 new UPSHAW, CHARLES F., CREATH, WILGUS B., and subspecies, classified in 5 genera, mostly from BROOKS, FRANK L. Sediments and micro­ Arizona. Translations of original descriptions fauna off the coasts of Mississippi and adja­ of 6 genera, I subgenus, 6 species, and a forma cent states.- Miss. Geol., Econ., and Topo. are given. Survey, Bull . 106, 1966, p. 1-127, pis. 1-8, text figs. 1-42 (maps, landscape pbotos, equip­ SOBAT, MOHAMMED R EZA . Sem;lexlular;a Ihomas; ment pbotos, distrib. maps, grapbs), graphs Miller & Carmer (Foram. ) aus dem Wissen­ 1-12, tables 1-5.-Quantitative analyses of the bacher Scbiefer (Eifel-Stufe) von Meggen im contribution made to tbe sediment by arena­ Sauerland (Rbeinisches Schiefergebirge).­ ceous, calcareous benthonic and planktonic PaHio nt. Zeitschr., Stuttgart, Band 40, Nr. 3/4, Foraminifera in marsh and bay, sound, inner Oct. 1966, p. 237-243 , pI. 23 , text fi gs. 1-3 sbelf, middle shelf, and outer shelf. (map, graphs).-New occurrence in Germany. VERVLOET, C. C. Stratigraphical and micropa­ SOUAYA, FERNAND JOSEP H. Miocene Foraminifera leontological data on tbe Tertiary of southern of the Gulf of Suez region, U.A.R. Part 4- Piedmont (nortbern Italy).--Schotanus & Jens Paleoecology and age.-Micropaleontology, v. N.V., Utrecbt, Marcb 1966, p. 1-88, pis. 1-12, 12, No.4, Oct. 1966, p. 493-504, text-figs. \ , text figs. 1-6 (map, geol. secti on, correl. chart, 2 (loc. map, r ange chart) .--Seven assemblage biostratigrapbic chart, graphs, measurement zones (one in upper Burdigali an, 4 in Hel­ table), tables I-II (columnar sections, distrib. vetian , and 2 in Tortonian) are establisbed. and abund . tables, cor reI. di agram ) , maps 1-5. Five subzones and 10 zonules provide furtber - In 5 geologic sections studied, a composite subdivisions. Ranges of 21 significant pl ank­ sequence of 10 pl anktonic zones between up­ tonic species are shown. per Eocene and upper Miocene (Messinian) are recognized. In tbe lower part of the se­ SZOTS, ENDRE. Sur la limite entre la partie in­ quence, zonation by larger Foraminifera is ferieure ("Paleocene" ) et la partie moyenne based on associations and on lineages. ("Eocene" ) du Paleogene.-Bull. Soc. Geol. France, ser. 7, tome 7, No. 5, 1965 (Oct. VEZZAN I, LIVIO. La sezione strati grafica di Cali­ 1966), p. 773-776, table.-Witb respect to the andro nel Pliocene medio-inferiore della Val lIerdian, a new zonati on based on planktonics. d'Agri (Lucania).-Riv. Ital. Pal. Stratig., v. 72, No. 2, 1966, p. 461-488, pIs. 24-27.­ TOCORJESCU, MARIA. Studiul micropaleontologic Twenty-seven species and 1 variety, none new. al depozitelor succesiunii Cretacic Superior­ Paleogen de pe Valea Mitoii-Reg. Laicai.­ WADDELL, D WIG HT E. Pennsylvanian fusulinids Assoc. Geol. Carpato-Balkanique, Veme Con­ in the Ardmore Basin, Love and Carter coun­ res, 4-19 Sept. 196 1, Bucarest, Communica­ ti es, Ok.lahoma.-Oklahoma Geol. Survey tions Sci., IIeme Sec.: Stratigraphie, 1963, p. Bull. 113 , 1966, 128 p., 13 pis. (thin section 257-293, text figs. 1-5, tables 1-3, range chart. photographs, columnar section), 11 text figs. - Ranges between lower Turonian and Lute­ (map, correl. chart, range chart, columnar tian sbown for 44 planktonic species; the section, drawings, diagram), 8 tables.--Seven­ interval being subdivided into 12 zones. teen species (4 new) and 7 fusulinid biozones.

TOOD, RUTH. Smaller Foraminifera from Guam. WEBB, PETER NOEL. New Zealand Late Cretaceous -U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 403-1, Nov. Foraminifera and Stratigrapby.--Schotanus & 23, 1966, p. 1-41 , pi s. 1-19, text fi gs. 1, 2 Jens N .V., Utrecht, 1966, p. 1-18, text figs. (map, correl. chart), tables 1-4.-Assemblages 1-4 (correl. chart, maps, zonal diagram) .­ from upper Eocene, lower Oligocene, Mio- Proposing 2 arenaceous assemblage zones (fa- 98 TODD-RECENT LITERATURE ON THE FORAMINIFERA

cies controlled ) and 1 planktonic zone (cor­ median type is selected, with lateral types related with Maestrichtian). showing differences in all directions.

WEZEL, FORESE CA RLO. Descrizione neottp.ca di La sezione tipo del Flysch Numldico: stratigrafia preliminare della parte sottostante al Comples­ Foraminiferi delle argille subetnee illustrati da Seguenza: introduzione metodologica e studio so Panormide. (Membro di Portella Colla) .­ di Bolivina (Bolivina) a/ala.-Geol. Romana, Atti Accad. Gioenia Sci. Nat. Catania, ser. 6, v. 18, 1966, p. 71-92, pI. I, text figs. 1-3 (map, v. 5, 1966, p. 215-248, pis. I, 2, text figs. 1-8 graph, range chart).--Correlated by plank­ (graphs, drawings), tables 1-6.-Because the tonics with late Oligocene. Seguenza 1862 types are dispersed, neotypes need to he established. Bolivina a/ala illus­ Ruth Todd trates a proposed new method of establish­ U. S. Geological Survey ment of neotypes. Using biometric methods a Washington, D. C.