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Contents PAO. No. 363. Annotated bibliography of Paleozoic nonfusulinid Foraminifera, Addendum 6 Donald F. Toomey and B. Mamet ...... 45- GIf- No. 364. Globocassidulina nipponensis, new name for Cassidulina orientale, 1925, pre- occupied J. V. Bade ...... 65 -'-b No. 365. Cibicides, Caribeanella and the polyphyletic origin of Planorbulina Detmar Schnitker ...... 67 -(;1 Correction :k. .. J>. .,G: . ./ 1.~ .~~\.. .. ~~ .., ..

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ABS TR ACT erature evaluations will appear in every other ad­ Thi s a d dendu m i n cludes 116 ann otated r eferences per­ dendum. This will permit a larger literature ~ am­ t a ining to Pal eozoi c non fusulinid Fora m inifer a . and can con s id ered r eason ably complet e thr ou gh t he year 1967. pIing (at least 225 references) and hence, a more As i n previ ou s bib l iograph ies. (T oomey. 1959. 1961. 1963, accurate evaluation of apparent literature trends. 1965. 1966. and T oomey and l\'Iamet. 1967. a n d 19( 8). 1. the aims are unchan ged : (1 ) to su m m arize briefly the perti­ ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY nent dat a contained in each a r ticl e ; ( 2) t o l ist a ll new A. PRECARBONIFEROUS FORAMINIFERA gener a a n d species d escribed t h er ei n ; and (3) to denote. w ith in b r ackets. a ll t axonom ic ch anges n oted from cur­ I. BOUCKA ERT, J ., CONIL, R., and THOREZ, M., ren t a n d subsequen t pu blication s. and to inc lude pertin en t 1967, Position stratigraphique de quelques com m ents when possible. t hus mak in g the b ibliog r aph y a gites famenniens a Foraminiferes: Geol. Soc. more u sefu l wor kin g tool. BeIge, Bull., v. 75, pI. 2 (1966), p. 159-175, 4 pI. , [in French]. INTRODUCTION The writers report the stratigraphic occur­ This annotated bibliography consists of 22 ref­ rences of a number of previously described species erences containing original descriptions of genera of smaller foraminifers from the Upper Devonian and species and taxonomic nomenclature of Pale­ (Famennian) rocks of the Dinant Synclinorium ozoic nonfusulinid Foraminifera. An additional of Belgium. Two new species, Seplabrullsiil1a 94 references that utilized smaller foraminifers in bae/elli and Seplag/om ospiral1ella ( ? ) gosse/eli, are uatigraphic subdivision and that mention inciden­ described from the Famennian Fmlc interval and lal occurrences are also included for completeness. illustrated by thin-section photomicrographs. A The 116 references have been annotated by the simple key for the identification of characteristic ompilers. These annotations include geologic age, Upper Devonian Belgium foraminifers is also in­ geographic locality, type of illustrations, original cluded, as is a table showing the comparison of language, new forms described, and comments in the Belgium foraminiferal horizons to the Soviet brackets on taxonomic changes from the annotated foraminiferal biozones, and the German conodont article or noted from subsequent publications. It zones. [The legend for Plate 1 is in error; the ex­ should be noted that Professor Mamet is actively planation for figure 1 should be for figure 3.] engaged in research on the Lower Carboniferous smaller foraminifers of the World, hence, many of 2. CHUBASHOV, B. I., 1963, Iron deposits between the notations enclosed within the brackets, espe- the Devonian and Carboniferous in the Chus­ ia lly in reference to Lower Carboniferous articles, sovaya Basin: Sovietskaia Geologia, v. 7, p. are comments made by him and based upon his 127-130, [in Russian]. onsiderable experience working with these forms. The writer reports the occurrence of 3 char­ This bibliography may be considered to be rea­ acteristic foraminiferal assemblages, composed of sonably complete through the year 1967. Including previously described species, from the Upper Devo­ this addendum, the total number of annotated Pale­ nian (Famennian), the Etroeungt, and the Lower ozoic nonfusulinid foraminiferal references has Carboniferous (Tournaisian) beds of the Chus­ reached 1081. The compilers would greatly appre­ sovaya Basin of the Soviet Union. ciate the effort and cooperation of all Paleozoic fo raminiferal workers in keeping them current on 3. EIS EN ACK, A., 1966, Dber Cill/aria !Vimalli all new works that appear by sending pertinent re­ Brotzen: Neues lahrb. f. Geol. u. PaUion!. prints and separates when available. Monalsh., no. I , p. 52-56, 3 text-fig., [in The compilers have decided to forego literature German]. evaluations in each yearly addendum. Instead, lit- The writer suggests that the microfossil Chuari wimal1i Brotzen, found in the Precambrian 1 Contt'. Cu sh man Found. Foram. R esear ch , V. 10. p. 71 - 105; v . 1 2. p . 33-46; v. 14. p . 7 7- 94 ; v. 16. p. 1-21; v. Visingso Formation of Sweden, is probably a chi­ 17 . p . 46-66 ; v . 18. p . 55-83 ; v , 19. p . 41-69 . tinous foraminifer. C. wimalli closely resembles 46 TOO!'..IEY AND l\.IAl\lET-BIBLIOCRAPHY OF' PALEOZ0 1C NOKFU SUL1I\' I D FOHAl\U K JF'EHA. ADD. G younger forms found in the Brioverien of Nor­ Monte Zermula. No new taxa are described, and mandy. This questionable form is described in de­ only a few representative foraminifers are illus­ tail and illustrated by excellent whole-specimen trated by rather poor thin-section photomicro­ photomicrographs. graphs. The Middle Devoni an (Givetian) assem­ blage contains: A rchaesplwera sp., Bisplwera sp. cf. 4. EISENACK, A., 1967, Foraminiferen aus dem B. malevkell sis, Paralhurammilla ex. gr. da gmarae, Ordovizium und Gotlandium des baltischen P. sp. cf. P. magll a, Irregularilla sp., Rauserilla sp., Gebietes: Neues J ahrb. f. Geol. u. PaHion!. Eovolulilla sp. , and Um bellilla sp. The Upper Abh., v. 128, no. 3, p. 244-274, pI. 24-28, 10 Devoni an (Frasnian) foraminiferal assemblage text-fig., [in German]. contai ns: Archaesphaera sp., Radiosphaera sp., The present work concerns agglutinated fo­ Bisphaera sp., Parathllrammilla suleimallovi, P. sp. raminifers with or without organic cement and cf. P. suleimall ovi var. slellata, P. sp. cf. P. cush­ purely chitinous forms. It involves three reports. malli, P. sp. cf. P. spillosa, P. ex. gr. dagmarae, The first is a supplement to a paper that appeared Rauserilla sp., i rregularilla sp., ?Uslollia sp., Cal­ in 1954 and concerns Ordovician foraminifers from igella sp., and Eovolutina sp. Estonia. The neotype of Psammosplwera micro­ gralla is di scussed, and one new species, Slegllam­ 6. FILIPPOVA , M. F ., 1959, On the correlation of diverse facies of the upper Famennian milia microgralla , plus a few previously described forms are tabulated, described, and illustrated. (Upper D evonian). I N: Stratigraphy of the The second portion consists of a contribu­ lower part of the Lower Carboniferous in the Volga-Ural district of the Russian Pl atform : tion on the smaller foraminifers of the Baltic Sea limestones (Upper Ordovician glacial boulders) V.N.I.G.R.I., No. 14, p. 137-145, 1 text-fig., which carry species of the genera Ordovicilla, [in Russian]. Blaslammilla, Pseudaslrorhiw, Amphilremoida, The writer notes that the Septatoumayella Thurammilla, Saccammilla, and the newly estab­ rauserae and Elldothyra commullis-E. kobeitusalla lished genus Pachyammilla for A II1philremoida? assemblage Zones are recogni zed in the Melekess pachylheca Eisenack, 1954. Newly described spe­ and Ulianov boreholes (Volga-Ural Basin). Both cies are: Pseudaslrorhiza slella, P. lelraedrica, A /11- zones are included in the Upper Devonian (Famen­ philremoida lubulosa, A. fusifo rma, A. millula, A .? nian) . [In the original type-region of Belgium the lelluissima, Pachyamll1illa 10llga n. gen., and P. Elldothyra commullis-E. kobeilusalla assemblage is polyedrica. The most common species in the Baltic characteristic of the Lower Carboniferous (Tour­ Sea limestones is Pa chyammina pachylheca. naisian) .] The third part is a contribution on the small­ er foraminifers from the Silurian rocks of Gotland 7. IR ELAND, H . A., 1967, Regional depositional Island and consists of descriptions of 21 species basins and correlation of Siluro-Devonian representing the following genera: Blaslammilla, beds using arenaceous Foraminifera and acid Slegllammilla, Psammosphaera, Sorosphaera, A m­ residues. I N: Tulsa Geol. Soc., Digest, v. 35, philremoida, Thurammina, Saccammilla, Hyper­ Symposium: "Silurian-Devonian rocks of am min a, Archaechilinia, and Archaeochilosa. Oklahoma and environs," Edited by D. F. Among the new species described are : Blaslam­ Toomey, p. 99-118, 6 text-fig., 1 table. milia haploida, B. slriala, B. aSlrophora, Slegllam­ The carbonate beds of Silurian and Devo­ mina rhabdomorpha, Psammosplwera IIUX , A m phi­ ni an age in the central Midcontinent are known as Irem oida robusla, A . elollgala, and Thurammilla the "Hunton Group" in the subsurface and at their visbyellsis. outcrop area in the Arbuckle Mountains of south­ Representative forms from all three mi crofau­ ern Oklahoma. The agglutinated Foraminifera nas are illustrated by excellent thin-section and whole­ found in the subsurface of Kansas, and similar specimen photomicrographs and / or line drawings. microfaunas previously described from Oklahoma, Mi ssouri, and elsewhere provide information for 5. FERRARI, A ., and VAl, G. B., 1965, Ricerche identification and correlation of the Silurian-Devo­ stratigrafiche e paleoecologiche al Monte ni an rocks locally and regionall y. The lithologic Zermula (Alpi Carniche) : Giornale di Geol­ samples lack diagnostic criteria, but the acid resi­ ogia, Ann. del Mus. Geol. Bologna, ser. 2, v. dues and especiall y the contained agglutinated Fo­ 33, no. 2, p. 389-406, 5 pI. , 3 text-fi g., 1 table, raminifera make it possible to zone the beds, iden­ [in Italian with German abstract]. tify faults, pinchouts and other stratigraphic char­ The writers report the occurrence of Middle acteristics that previously have not been determined. and Upper Devonian (Givetian-Frasnian ) foramin­ The study of lithologic samples, acid residues, and iferal assemblages in the biocalcilutites of the Ital­ the Foraminifera define zones that can be correl­ ian Carnic Alps of northern Italy, near the town of ated with outcrops. CONTRIBUTIONS Jo"' R Ol\I THE CU SHMAN F OUNDATION F OR l<"'ORAl\1IN IFERA L RESEAR CH 47

8. KUZN ETSOV, S. S., and MIKLUKHO-MAKLAY, Taxonomic modifications include the follow­ A. D., 1955, On the presence of Devonian on ing: ( I) the genus A rc/we/agena is proposed to the main Caucasus ridge: Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., supercede the Paleozoic Eo/agella and Lagellam­ Doklady, v. 104, no. 6, p. 890-891, [in Russian]. milia [the type species of A re/we/agella, A. how­ From the Upper Devonian rocks of the chinialla Brady, belongs within the botanical realm, Caucasus Mountains, Soviet Union, an assemblage while Eo/agella is a bilayered secreted form, and of 14 taxa of smaller foraminifers and questionable Lagenammina an agglutinated pseudochitinous for­ forms is reported. Most have been previously de­ aminifer], (2) Archaesphaera su/eimanovi Vissari­ scribed, however; 3 forms are reported as new but onova is transferred to A re/we/agena [to the re­ are to the compilers' knowledge 11 0m ina nuda: these viewers' knowledge this taxon is from Bogush and are A rchaesp/wera gigalllea, Irregu/arilla granda, Juferev, 1962], (3) a new subgenus, Bullella, is pro­ and LageltOll1milla 111illima. posed on Bisphaera (Bullella) ucha/ellsis, for the monolayered Devonian bisphaerids [this new taxon, 9. MOURAVIEFF, N., and BULTYNCK , P., 1967, Bullella, is preoccupied by Bullella Simpson, 1900; Quelques Foraminiferes du Couvinien et du in addition, its holotype is a lI om ell lIudum], (4) Frasnien du board sud du Bassin de Dinant: the species Bisp/wera COllca llalllS Vissarionova in Geol. Soc. BeIge, Bull., v. 75, pt. 2, p. 153- Bykova 1955, is transferred to Paralhurammilla [the 156, 1 pI. , [in French]. compilers are unaware of the formal description of The writers report the occurrence of Middle this taxon], and (5) the type descriptions of the (Couvinian) and Upper (Frasnian) Devonian ag­ genera irregu/arilla and Eo vo/ulilla are emended, glutinated and calcareous foraminifers from the and the forms I. Iches/a vkellsis Bykova and I. /ollga southern portion of the Dinant Basin of Belgium. Konolipina are transferred to the genus Cribro­ The microfauna was derived from acid residues sphaeroides. and consists mainly of pyritized steinkerns refer­ able to the genera Semilexlu/aria, Pseudopa/mu/a, 12. SPASSOV, H., and FILIPOVIC, 1. , 1966, The con­ Paralexlu/aria, M ora vammilla, and Nanicella . Rep­ odont fauna of the older and younger Palae­ resentative forms are illustrated by whole-specimen zoic in southeastern and northwestern Bosnia: photomicrographs. Geol. Glasnik Br. II., p. 33-53, 3 pI. , 1 text­ fig ., [in Serbo-Croatian with English summary]. 10. PFLUG, H . D., 1965, Organische Reste aus der A study of the conodonts of the Silurian Belt-Serie (Algonkium) von Nordamerika : ( upper Llandovery-lower Wenlockian) amorphog­ Paliiont. Zeit., v. 39, no. 1/ 2, p. 10-25, 4 pI. , Ilalhoides Zone in Bosni a, Yugoslavia, has also [in German with English summary]. yielded the agglutinated foraminifer lll vO/Ulina sp. Numerous organic remains, all regarded as [probably A mmodiscus or G /omospirella]. This ill cerlae sedis, are described from the Upper Pre­ foraminifer is illustrated on Plate 1 by whole-speci­ cambrian Belt Series of Montana. One problemat­ men photomicrographs. [Noteworthy is the occur­ ical microfossil, Tricellaria delyiellsis n. gen and rence of the same foraminifer in the amorphog­ sp. , exhibits several structures similar to Forami­ lIalhoides Zone of the Silurian Clarita Formation nifera. All forms are illustrated by whole-specimen of the Arbuckle Mountains of southern Oklahoma.] photomicrographs and line drawings. 13. STANTON, R. J., JR., 1967, Radiosphaerid cal­ II. PRONINA , T. V., and CHUVASHOV, B. I., 1965, cispheres in North America and remarks on On the development of the systematics, pale­ calcisphere classification: Micropaleontology, oecology, and stratigraphic significance of the v. 13, no. 4, p. 465-472, I pI., 1 table. family Parathuramminidae: Akad. Nauk S.S. In hi s discussion of the ca1cispheres found S.R., Voprosy Mikropaleontologii, No.9, p. in the Upper Devonian ( Frasnian) Valentine Mem­ 71-82, I text-fig., [in Russian]. ber of the Sultan Limestone in southern Nevada Deals mainly with the systematics of a dozen (Arrow Canyon Range) the writer notes that calci­ forms of illcerlae sed is, here regarded as Forami­ spheres occur in a pellet, lithoclast, fossil-fragment, ni fera (Parathuramminidae). The Parathurammin­ lime grainstone. The associated biota consists of . ae, as envisioned by the writers, range from stromatoporoids, ostracodes, gastropods, and small­ Cambrian to Carboniferous, with an acme of devel­ er foraminifers of the genera Umbellilla, Irregu­ opment during the Devonian. They exhibit a wide /arilla, alld Paralhurammilla. range of habitats, running the gamut from plank­ to nic to attached benthonic forms. It is thought 14. TSCHERNICH, Y. Y., 1967, New Late Silurian iliat their various ecologic adaptations are reflected Foraminifera of the Urals: Akad. Nauk S.S. their wall structure, which varies from pseudo­ S.R., Paleont. Zhur., No. 2, p. 37-43, I text­ chitinous agglutinated to calcareous secreted. fig ., I table, [in Russian]. 48 TOO MEY AND l\JAMET-BIB LIOC R APHY OF P A LEOZOIC KOKF CSULI !\" l D F ORAl\ IL N JF'ERA , A DD. 6

The writer describes 2 new genera and 5 17. AI ZENBE RG, D. E., BRAZ HNIK OVA , N. E., new species of Late Silurian agglutinated smaller ISHEN Ko, T. A., and LAG UTIN, P. K., 1963, foraminife rs from the Ural Mountains region of On tbe characteristics of tbe basal layers of the Soviet Union. A new subfamil y, Ammovolo­ the Lower Ca r bo nif~ rou s in tbe Donetz Basi n: lummininae, is erected under the family Ammo­ Akad. Nauk R.S.R. (Ukraine), Geol. Zbur., discidae and the foll owing new taxa are described v. 23, no. I , p. 73-78, [in Russian]. within it: Ammovolummina recla n. gen., A . saum­ The writers present a lucid discussion of tbe ensis, A. pseudolllba, A . sphae rica, and Serpenulina microfauna present in tbe transition beds between uralica n. gen. All of the above forms are illus­ the U pper Devoni an (Famenni an) and tbe Lower trated by representative line drawings . Carboniferous (Tournaisian). The Ukraini an po­ siti on of placing the systemati c boundary at the base 15. WILSON, J. L., 1967, Carbonate-evaporite of tbe Quasiendolilyra kobeilusana Zone is strongly cycles in lower Duperow Formation of Willis­ defended. [This is one of tbe very rare instances in ton Basin: Bull. Canadian Petrol. Geol. , v. tbe Soviet literature in wbicb tbe strict application 15, no. 3, p. 23 0-3 12, 22 pI. , 14 text-fig., of a pertinent rule of zoological nomenclature is I appendix. applied, i.e., Quasiendothyra konensis forma sym­ In a comprehensive study of the Upper metrica is considered as non-Linnean and is Dot Devonian (Frasnian) carbonate-evaporite cycles in italicized.] the lower Duperow Formation of the Williston 18. AI ZEN BERG, D. E., BRAZHNIK OVA, E. V., and Basin region (North Dakota, Montana, and Sas­ RosTovcEvA, L. F., 1966, On tbe C . (a Zone katchewan) tbe writer reports the pre, ence of the of tbe Donets Basin . IN : The fa una of the questionable foraminifer Umbel/ina within this in­ lowest part of the Tournaisian (Zone Clta) terval. Tbe writer notes that Um bel/ina is fairly in the Donets Basin : Akad. Nauk U.R.S.R. abundant in botb the normal marine and restricted (Kiev), Inst. Geol. nauk, p. 3-42, 18 pI. , I marine lime wacke stones of tbe Duperow. Within text-fig., [in Russian]. this formation it is unknown in tbe stromatoporoid The writers present an excellent revision of reefoid faunas. It is speculated that tbe organism's botb tbe mega- and microfauna of tbe uppermost distri bution pattern suggests that it was pelagic and Devonian-Lo\ver Carboniferous Etroeungt transi­ could bave existed in surface layers of bypersaline tional beds in tbe Soviet Donets Basin. Tbe micro­ water or that it drifted over a wide area and was fa una suggests a distinctive Lower Carboniferous deposited in sedi ments of greatl y diffe rent environ­ aspect for tb is biota, although certai n Devoni an ments. [See Toomey, 1965; Rich, 1965; Teicbert, elements are still conspicuous. The microfauna of 1965 ; and Bykova & Polenova, 195 5, for further calcareous secreted foraminifers is composed of 9 discussions relati ve to tbis problematical form .] species wbich had previously made their appear­ ance in the Upper Devoni an; 22 taxa are specific to tbe horizon, whereas II species grade upward into B. LA T E PALEOZ OIC FORA MIN IFERA tbe Lower Carboniferous. 16. AI ZENBE RG, D ., and BRAzHNIKovA, N . E., The microfauna is described in detail and il­ 1959, On tbe stratigraphy of tbe lowe r part of lustrated by excellent thin-section photomicro­ the Lower Carboniferous in the occidental graphs. This publication has the fi nest plates, both part of tbe Greater Donbass. IN: Stratig­ in quality of the photography and in reprod ucti on, raphy of the lower pa rt of tbe Lower Carbon­ ever seen in a Soviet foramini feral paper. The val­ iferous in tbe Volga-Ural di strict of the Rus­ ue of this remarkable compendi um is onl y marred sian Platform: V.N.I.G.R.I., No. 14, p. 156- by its sli ghtly archaic and errati c taxonomy. Two 168, [in Russian] . subspecies are descri bed as new; these are: Cribro­ Tbe writer notes that in the occidental por­ spilaeroides simplex Reitlinger donaica, and Para­ tion of tbe Greater Donbass region of the Soviet likhinel/a cannula Bykova kajalica. Six other taxa Union tbe base of the Lower Carboni fe rous (Tour­ do not follow the Rul es of Zoological Nomencla­ naisian) is pl aced at tbe base of tbe Endolil yra ture and are here reported conditionall y. These communis-E. kobeilusana assemblage Zone. are: Cribrosphaeroides simplex Reitlinger donaica jorma magna, Bisplwera m alevkensis Birina jorllla The Tournaisian-Visean boundary is char­ magna, B . malevkensis Birina jorma nana, R auser­ acterized by reli ct tournayellids in association witb ilia nolala Antropov jorma polycel/ala, Paracalig­ Lilllolubel/a, Quasiendolil yra [now Urbanel/a and el/a all lropov; Lipina jorma incur va, Cilem ysilin­ Dainel/a], Endolilyra ex. gr. globulus [now Globo­ ella dispulabilis Dain jorma prim iliva. endotilyra], and tbe fusulinids Eoparaslafjel/a and Eoslafjel/a. [One nom en nudum, Endolilyra micula 19. ALExANnRovlcz, S. W., and SIEnLEcKA, A., Vdovenko, is cited by the writers.] 1964, A lithological profil e of the Dinantian CONTRfBUTIONS FROM THE CUSHl\ I A.J.~ F OUNDATION FOR FORAMINIFERAL RES EARCH 49

limestones at Czerna near Krzeszowice: Ann. San Pedro, Nacimiento, Jemez, Sandia, Manzanita, Soc. Geol. Pologne, v. 34, no. 3, pI. 17-18,7 Manzano, and Sange De Cristo Mountains of text-fig., [in Polish with English summary]. north-central New Mexico. Three carbonate cycles Lower Carboniferous ( upper Vi sea n) lime­ are recognized; all contain previously described stones exposed on the eastern slope of the Czernka smaller fo raminifers and can be referred to the Valley, Poland , are predominantly detrital lime­ Elldothyra spinosa and E. spiroides Zones of Skipp stones or intraformational limestone conglomerates. et al., 1966. In a section on systematic paleontol­ Some of the limestone units contain abundant EII­ ogy 6 species of endothyrids are described ; one of doth yra sp. in association with algae and calcareous these, Elldothyra skippae, is a new name to replace spheres (Calcisphaera spp.) . Pl ate 18 contains Plectogyra ill fla ta Zeller, preoccupied by Endo­ photomicrographs of representative carbonate rock th yra illflata Lipina, 1955. Plates 8-10 contain ty pes in which some foraminifers are present. rather poor photomicrographs of representative Arroyo Penasco smaller foraminifers. 20. ALV ARADO DE, A ., and SAMPELAYO, A. H., 1945, Zona occidental de la cuenca del Ruba­ 23 . ARsovsKl, M. N ., GRUM-GRJIMALJO, O. S., gon. Datos para su estudio estatigraphico: . GAFT, D. E., and STRATCHKOV, M. M., 1957, Inst. Geol. Min. Espana, Boll. No. 58, p. 1-43 , Stratigraphy of the Devonian and Carbonifer­ 6 text-fig., 2 cross-sections (foldouts) , [in ous of the Great Karatau, IN : Resolutions for Spanish]. the unified stratigraphic scheme of the pre­ The wri ter reports the occurrence of the Paleozoic and Paleozoic of the eastern part of sma ll er foraminifers Textularia [probably Palaeo­ Kazakhstan: p. 79-82, [in Russian]. /e xllIlaria] and Endothyra sp. aff. E. bowmalli from The writers recogni ze five microfaunal as­ the Lower Carboniferous limestones of the Pena semblages ranging in age from Upper Devonian (As turias), Spain. (Famenni an) to Middle Carboniferous from the Great Karatau region of western Asia, U.S.S.R. 2 1. ANtSGARD, H., and CAM PAU, D. E., 1963, All assembl age zones are based upon previously Paramillerella thompsolli n. sp. from Michi­ described taxa. The writers consider that the EII­ ga n and a redefinition of Paramillerella: Con­ dothyra commullis Zone [now Quasiendothyra ko­ trib. Cushman Found. Foram. Res., v. 14, pt. beitusalla Zone] is uppermost Devonian in age. 3, p. 99-108, pI. 9-11, 3 text-fig. Primarily a discussion of the systematic po- 24. BELOV , A. A ., and REITLI NGER, E. A., 1966, -ti on of Paramillerella, Endothyra, and Eostanella. A paleontologic description of the lower tuf­ The genus Elldothyra, sensu Zeller, is considered fites of the Khram Mass, southern Georgia: s~ no n y mou s with the primitive fusulinoid Paramil­ Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Doklady, v. 170, no. I , nella . A new species, Paramillerella thompsoni, is p. 152-154, [in Russian; English translation Jescribed and illustrated by thin-section photomi­ IN: Doklady ESS, v. 170, p. 44-46, American Jographs and drawings. The new form is from the Geol. Inst.] . lower Bayport Formation (Pennsylvanian) of The lower tuffite sed iments present in the ~ [ ic hi ga n. [The genus Paramillerella Thompson, vicinity of the Khram Mass, southern Georgia, 195 1, 11 0 11 sell Su Anisgard and Campau, is con- U.S.S.R., previously thought to be of Triassic age, 1"neric with Eostanella Rauser-Chernoussova, 1948, have been dated as Lower Carboniferous (lower .lIId should therefore be dropped. Moreover, the Namurian) on the basis of previously described lC.Z.N . has designated the type of Elldothyra as species of smaller Foraminifera. The foraminifers - . bO ll'malli Phillips in Brown emelld. Brady, occur in thin lenses of limestone; in addition to the - nee, Elldothyra sensu Zeller is therefore invalid. Foraminifera, the limestones contain rather abun­ addition it has been renamed Eoelldothyrallop­ dant alga l remains (Calcifolium, ungdarellids, be­ JU by Reitlinger in 1966. Paramillerella sellsu rezellids, and girvanellids). _-\nisgard and Campau does not adhere to the I.C . L '< . ruling and is to be considered as an Eoelldo- 25. BETELEv, N. P., ROSTOVCEVA, L. F., and . " lIl opsis]. YO UC HKO, L. A., 1959, Some data on the stratigraphy, lithology and the facies of the - , ARMSTRONG, A. K., 1967, Biostratigraphy and Tournaisian and lower Visean in the Tartary carbonate facies of the Mississippian Arroyo territory, IN : Strati graphy of the lower part Penasco Formation, northcentral New Mexi­ of the Lower Carboniferous in the Volga-U ral co : New Mexico Bur. Mines and Min. Res., region of the Russian Platform: V.N .l.G.R.I., Mem. 20, 80 p., 12 pI. , 45 text-fig., 4 tables. Trudy, v. 14, p. 224-244, 2 text-fig., [in Russian]. A comprehensive study and synthesis of the Three facies realms are recogni zed in the '. Osage to Meramec (Lower Carboniferous) Lower Carboniferous rocks of the Tartary territory, .oyo Penasco Formation which outcrops in the U.S.S. R. In each the marine Tournaisian and 50 TOOMEY AND MAMET- B IBLIOC R APH Y OF' P AL EOZOIC !\'ON F CSULI N ID F ORAMIN IF8R A, ADD . C

Visean portions are biostratigraphically zoned on by two di stinctive complexes primarily composed the basis of smaller calcareous foraminifers, prin­ of smaller foraminifers referable to the Archae­ cipally based upon previously described species of di scidae. These are: ( I) a lower complex domi­ Endothyridae and Tournayellidae. A zonation nated by a Plalloarchaediscus assemblage and based on spores is also included. thought to be of Lower Carboniferous (Visean) age and, (2) an upper complex characterized by a 26. BIRINA, L. M., 1948, A detailed scheme of Planospirodiscus-Neoarchaediscus assemblage which the stratigraphy of the passage beds between suggests a Middle Carboniferous (Bashkirian) age. the Devonian and the Carboniferous (Etro­ The Tiksinsk Series is correlated with the Marak­ eungt) in the southern part of the Pod mosco­ ovsk Series of western and central Taimyr, which vian region : Sovietskaia Geologia, No. 28, p. also carries a similar microfaunal assemblage that 146-153, 1 text-fig., [in Russian]. ranges in age from Lower Carboniferous (Visean) The writer discusses the rocks and their con­ to Middle Carboniferous (Bashkirian). tained faunas of the passage beds between the U p­ per Devonian and Lower Carboniferous beds in the 29. BOGUSH, O. 1. , and lUFEREV, O. V., ./966, southern part of the Podmoscovian region of the Carboniferous and Permian Foraminifera of Soviet Union. It is suggested that the D evonian­ the Verkhoyansk Range: Akad. N auk S.S.S.R., Carboniferous boundary be placed above the EII­ Sibirskoe Otdel., Instil. Geol. i Geofiz., Izdat. dothyra-bearing Ozerko-Khovansk beds (that is, at "Naucha," Moskva, 208 p., 14 pI., 18 text­ the base of the Bisplwera Horizon). fig ., 7 tables, [in Russian]. 27. BOGUSH , O. I., and l EFEREV, O. V., 1957, Fo­ The writers describe 170 species of smaller raminifera and stratigraphy of the Carbonif­ foraminifers from the Carboniferous and Permian erous of the Karatau and the occidental slope rocks of the Verkhoyansk Range of the Soviet of the Alatau-Talass : Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. , Union. All forms a re illustrated by thin-section Doklady, v. 112, no. 3, p. 487-489, [in Russian]. photomicrographs. Of the total microfauna, 19 Nine foraminiferal assemblages ( based upon species, I subspecies, and 2 names are regarded as previously described species) are recognized and new. The new taxa are: Vicillesphaera irregularis, tabulated for the Upper Devonian to Middle Car­ Brullsia {lu ctata, B. tiksin ensis, B. lImbilicata, B. boniferous sediments of central A sia. These are: lata, B. crassa Bogush and luferev 11 0m. nov., B.? (1) an upper Devonian horizon characterized by sibirica, B.? lenell sis, Tolypammina glom ospiroides, Uralillella-Syniella, (2) an Etroeungt horizon with Septaglom ospirallella (5 .) verkhojallica, Toumay­ Endothyra communis and E. kobeitusana [now ella? verkhojanica, Carboll ella jakutica, Elldoth yra Quasielldothyra], (3) a lower Tournaisian assem­ abramovi, E . oldae, E. verkhojallica, E. settedaban­ blage with abundant monolocular forms (mainly ica, Plectogyrina lell ellsis, Quasiendothyra (E.) parathuramminids), (4) a high Tournaisian inter­ tchugutchallica, Plalloelldothyra rotcli bastakhellsis val characterized by Endothyra tuberculata, E. n. subsp., P.? kharaulakhell sis, P.? verkhojanica, rjausakensis, Brunsiina kraillica and others, (5) a Planoarchaediscus altus, and Tetrataxis? brazhllik­ lower Visean interval with A rchaediscus spirillin­ ovae nom. /lO V. oidea [now Planoarchaediscus] , (6) a high Visean Important taxonomic changes include the sequence characterized by E. omphalota, (7) the following : Bisphaera minima and B . grandis Lipina, highest Visean interval which carries A rchaediscus 1955 = B. irregularis Birina, 1948; Parathuram­ bashkiricus [now asteroarchaediscus] and Endoth y­ milia gekkeri Antropov, 1950 = P. tuberclliata ra samarica [such an assemblage present in western Lipina, 1950; Hyperammilla m oderata Malakhova, Europe would be considered as lower Namurian 1954 = Earlalldia m oderata (Malakhova) ; Hyper­ (Eumorphoceras Zone)], (8) a lower Namurian al71mina ? lingulata Malakhova, 1959 = Paracalig­ sequence which carries A rchaediscus postrugosus ella lillgulata (Malakhova); Turritellella grail dis [now Asteroarchaediscus], Globivalvulina ex. gr. and T. spirans Cushman and Waters, 1927, Trepeil­ m oderata and others, and (9) a Bashkirian interval opsis mississippiana Cooper, 1947, T. spiralis Gut­ which is characterized primarily by its fusulinid schick and Treckmann, 1959, Conkin, 1961 , Conkin content, i.e., PseudostafJella alltiqua. and Conkin, 1964, T. recurvidens Gutschick and Treckmann, 1959, Conkin, 1961 , and Conkin and 28. BOGUSH, O. I., and lUFEREV, O. V., 1965, Conkin, 1964, all = Trepeilopsis grandis (Cush­ Questions concerning the age of the Tiksinsk man and Waters); Glom ospirallella elldothyroides Series and its analogues in the River Lena var. quadriloba Dain, 1953 = Septaglol71 ospiranella lowlands : Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Doklady, v. (5.) quadriloba (Dain) ; Plectogyra tUl11ula Zeller, 165, no. 4, p. 891-893, [in Russian]. 1957, pars = Carbonella tumula (Zeller) ; Endo­ The Tiksinsk Series, which outcrops in the thyra explicata Ganelina, 1956, pars = E. amplis lowlands of River Lena, U.S.S.R., is characterized Schlykova, 1951 ; Quasielldothyra communis (Raus.) CONTRIBUTIONS FRO1\{ THE CUSHMAN FOU NDATION FOR FORAMINIFERAL RESEARCH 51 va r. turbida ReitIinger, 1961 = Daillella turbida ( Maroc): Soc. Geol. France, c'R.S., pt. 4, p. (Durkina); Quasielldothyra kedrol'ica Durkina, 166-167,4 text-fig., [in French]. 1959 = Plafloelldothyra rotai rotai (Dain); Quasi­ The writer reports the occurrence of the elldothyra umbonata Bogush and luferev, 1960 = smaller foraminifer Eolasiodiscus sp. in rocks of Plalloelldothyra umbollata (Bogush and Juferev); Lower Carboniferous (Vi sean) age from the coal Plectogyra crassitheca Bogush and luferev, 1962 = producing area of Djerada, Morocco, North Africa. Planoendothyra? crassitheca (Lipina); A rchaedis­ The foraminifer is described and illustrated by thin­ eus m onstrallIs Grozdilova and Lebedeva, 1954 = section photomicrographs. Planoarchaediscus monstratus (Grozdilova and Lebedeva); A rc!wediscus postrugosus ReitIinger, 33. C HANTON, N., 1967, Etude micropaleontol­ 1949 = Neoarchaediscus postrugosus (ReitIinger); ogique du Viseen Superieur de Djerada and Archaediscus borealis Reitlinger, 1949 = Neo­ (Maroc): Soc. Geol. de France, Bull., 7th orchaediscus borealis (ReitIinger). ser. , v. 8, p. 36-39, pI. 2, [in French]. The writer presents a summary of the biota 30. BONDARENKO, S. P., LAPKIN, Y. Y., and (algae, smaller foraminifers, fusulinids, ammon­ SHAMEV, M. 1., 1966, Carboniferous lime­ oids) present in the Lower Carboniferous (upper­ stone pebbles in Permian deposits of the most Visean) limestones of western Morocco, Donetz Basin: Moscow Soc. Nat., Bull., geol. North Africa. The microfauna is represented by ser. , v. 41, no. I, p. 154-156, 1 text-fig., [in previously described taxa and confirms the age pre­ Russian]. viously establi shed on the basis of ammonoids. A A microfauna found in limestone pebbles few representative smaller foraminifers are illus­ and containing a Middle Carboniferous (Bashkiri­ trated by thin-section photomicrographs. an ) microfauna of previously described smaller "oraminifers and fusulinids is described from a fu­ 34. CHERM NYK H, V. A., YESEVA, V. I., and MIK­ su li nid-dated sequence of Permian rocks from the HAYLOVA, Z. P., 1966, Middle Carboniferous Donetz Basin region of the Soviet Union. stratigraphy of the western side of the north­ ern Urals: akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Doklady, v. 31. BRAnY, H. B., 1870, Notes on the Foraminif­ 170, no. 4, p. 919-922, 1 text-fig., [in Russian; era of mineral veins and the adjacent strata. English translation IN: Doklady ESS, v. 170, IN: Moore, C., Report on mineral veins in p. 112-117, 1 text-fig., American Geol. Inst.]. Carboniferous limestone' and their organic The following Middle Carboniferous hori­ contents: British Assoc. for the Advancement zons are paleontologically identified (previously of Sci., London, Rept. 39, Exeter Meeting described species of smaller foraminifers and fusul­ 1869, p. 381-382. inids) and located at sections east of the Pechora The writer presents a di scussion and descrip­ River, on the western side of the northern Ural :lOn of ten "new species" of smaller Foraminifera Mountains, U.S.S.R. The delineated intervals are rved in the upper part of the Lower Carbon­ those above the Lower Carboniferous Protva Hori­ ::erous rocks of England. The "neW species" are: zon: Krasnaya Polyana; North Kel'tma; Kama .-ailitilla cylindrica [now Earlandinel/a cylindrica ], ( Prikamskiy Horizon) ; upper Bashkirian-Vereya; incerta [transferred to Trochammina celltriluga Kashira; Podol'sk; and Myachkovo. Text-fig. I _ Brady, 1876; this form is probably an advanced shows the correlation of these sections along the urrnayellid], 1. recta [now Endothyrallel/a recta], right bank of the middle Pechora River. lobata [considered synonymous with Endothyra '/1w ni by Brady in 1876] I. radiata [now Eostal­ 35. CHERNlAK, G. Yu., 1960, On the stratigraphy radiata], I. crassa [now Elldothyranopsis crass­ of the Middle and Upper Carboniferous of I. obliqua [probably an archaediscid], I. sub­ the Taimyr Peninsula : Inst. Geol. Arctic, nda [systematic position unknown], I. I'ermi­ Leningrad, Sbornik, Stat. Pal. i Biostratig­ is [placed in synonymy with Trochammina raphii, Bull. 18, p . 16-22, [in Russian]. by Brady in 1876; systematic position un­ The writer presents a microfaunal and mega­ wn], and I. macel/a [a crushed endothyroid of faunal biostratigraphic zonation of the Carbonifer­ group Elldothyra omphalota ; systematic posi­ ous rocks of the Russian arctic region. All foramin­ unknown]. [Most of these so-called "new spe- iferal identifications are referred to previously ;es- were later illustrated by Brady in 1876, and described forms. of the types are deposited in the British um.] 36. CHERNIAK, G. Yu., and D EDOK , T. A., 1959, New data on the Upper Paleozoic of the Taree CHANTON, N ., 1967, A propos de la presence River (central Taimyr): Inst. Geol. Arctic, de Lasiodiscidae (Foraminiferes) dans Ie Leningrad, Sbornik, Stat. Pal. i Biostratig­ Viseen terminal du bassi n houiller de Djerada raphii, Bull. 13 , p. 20-28, [in Russian] . 52 TOOMEY AND :l\'JA:l\:lET- B IBLIOG RAPHY OF PALEOZO IC X'01'\FUS ULI !\" ID F ORA:l\U N IFERA . A DD, 6

The writer presents a microfaunal and mega­ the boundary between the V I a and V I b substages faunal biostratigraphic zonation of a Lower to of the lower Visean. Several epeirogenic move­ Middle Carboniferous sequence of rocks from the ments affected the bio- and lithofacies of the lower T aree River area (central Taimyr) of the Russian Visean in the Dinant and Namur Basins. arctic region. 39. CON IL , R., and Lvs, M. , 1967, Aper~u sur Ies 37. C HUKINA , V. IA. , 1961 , On the Visean, Namu­ associati ons de Foraminiferes Endothyroides rian, and Middle Carboniferous stages of du Dinantien de la Belgique : Geol. Soc. Bel­ northern Kirgiztan: Akad. Nauk S.S.R. Kirgi z, gium, Ann., v. 90, 1966-67, Bull . 4, p. 395- Izvestia, ser. estes!. i technik nauk , v. 3, no. 4, 412, 4 pI. , [in French]. p. 5- 14, 4 tables, [in Russian]. The writers report the occurrence and faunal The writer presents a comprehensive survey associations of certain smaller foraminifers useful of the boundary detinitions of the Vi sean, Namuri­ in biostratigraphically subdividing the Lower Car­ an (Lower Carboniferous) and Bashkirian (Middle boniferous (Tournaisian-Visean ) rocks of the Din­ Carboniferous) Stages based on the biostratigraphic ant synclinorium of Belgium. Ten species of small­ zonation of brachiopods, corals, and smaller fora­ er fo raminifers are described and illustrated by thin­ minifers. section photomicrographs; of these, 5 species and I In Kirgiztan, U .S.S.R., the foraminiferal as­ subspecies are regarded as new. The new forms semblage Asteroarclwedisclis-GlobivalvlIlilltl is con­ are: "Mstillia" modavell sis, Septatourllayella(?) COIl­ sidered as upper Visean in age. [Tn western Europe, specta , Plectogyra hirsu/a, P. parakosvellsis (Lipina ) such a foraminiferal assemblage is considered as cla vaesepta, P. praetubercu/ata, and P. scabra. lower Namurian.] The Bashkirian Stage is characterized by the 40. CRES PI N, r. , 1962, Foraminifera in cores Nos. tirst appearance of the fusulinid PselidosttlOelltl 1,2& 3 from Meda No. I. IN : Pudovski s, V .. tllltiqutl associated with Bradyilltl aff. B. cribro­ Meda No. I well, Western Australia: Austral­ stomata and A rchaediscus ex. gr. mosquellsis. [In ian Bur. Min. Res., Geol. and Geoph., Petro­ western Europe, this foraminiferal assemblage leum Search Subsidy Acts Pub. No.7, p. 25-26. would be regarded as high Namurian in age.] In Western Australia, Permian Foraminifera 38. CON IL, R. , 1967, Problemes du Viseen inferi­ occur commonly in cores Nos. I and 3, with only eur dans Ie Condroz: Geol. Soc. Belgium, fragmentary tests of Hyperammilla in core No. 2_ Ann., v. 90, 1966-67, Bull. 4, p. 413-429, 2 The microfauna in core No. I consists of a rich as­ text-tig., I table, [in French]. semblage of well preserved Foraminifera, chieHy The writer discusses the stratigraphic and calcareous species previously described by Crespin micropaleontologic problems relative to biostrati­ ( 1958). Many tests of Frolldicularia and Nodo­ graphicall y subdividing the Lower Carboniferous saria were unusuall y large. The assemblage of spe-' (Visean ) rocks of the Condroz region of Belgium. cies is characteristic of subsurface sections of the Table I shows the stratigraphic occurrence of cer­ Noonkanbah Formation of the Canning Basin.. tain characteristic small er foraminifers (all previ­ Core No. 3 yielded numerous tests of calcareous ously described) that are useful in recogni zing diag­ imperforate Foraminifera, many of which were eo­ nostic strati graphic intervals. The distribution of tirely replaced by clear calcite, and others partial,­ the microfossil associations and the position of the replaced by glauconite. These forms are: Henri­ Productus humerosus beds in the principal refer­ gordills schlumbergi (Howchin ), N odosaria irwin­ ence sections of the Dinant Basin region, from ellsis Howchin, Tetra/axis sp., and Trepeilopm Dinant to the Vesdre Massif, indicate that at Dinant australiensis Crespin. The above assemblage is char­ the "black marble of Dinant" is stratigraphicall y acteristic of the Call ytharra Formation of the Carn­ higher than the "Sovet Dolomite." The appearance arvon Basin and its equivalents in the Irwin and of primitive Archaediscid ae is regarded as marking Canning (including Fitzroy) Basins of Australia.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE 13 FIGS. PAGE I. Globocassidulill(( Ilippoll ellsis new name. Holotype, after Cushman, 1925. IA-C, opposite sides and edge view...... 2. Globocassidulilla Ilipponell sis new name. From Recent, off Japan. 2A-C, opposite sides and edge view (N.Z.G.S. Cat. No. FP 202 1)...... 6j 3. Globocassidulill(( Ilippoll ell sis new name. From Recent, off Japan. Side view of juvenile (N.Z. G.S. Cat. No. FP 2022)...... 4. Globocassidulilla Ilippoll ell sis new name. From Recent, off Japan. Side view with most of last chamber removed, showing internal apertural lip and tooth-plate attached to penultimate cham- ber wall near septal foramen (N.Z.G.S. Cat. No. FP 2023)...... 65 CONTRIB. CUSHMAN FOUND. FORAM. RESEARCH, VOL. 20 P LATE 13

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41. DANILOV , B. I. , 1965, On the age of the terrig­ 45. D OUGLASS, R. c., 1967, Permian Tethyan fu­ enous strata in the Kama-Kinel region : Geol­ sulinids from California: U. S. Geol. Survey ogia Nefti i Gasa, v. 9, p. 20-24, 2 text-fig., Prof. Paper 593-A, 13 p., 6 pI., 4 text-fig., [in Russian] . 3 tables. A Lower Carboniferous (Tournaisian) ter­ Primarily a paper presenting faunal evidence ri ge nous series of rocks intercalated with normal (fusulinids) to show the existence of a shallow ~ ea­ marine carbonates from the Kama-Kinel region of way from Japan to California during Earl y Per­ the Soviet Union is biostratigraphically zoned on mian time. One smaller foraminifer, a rather high­ the basis of previously described species of am­ coned Tetrataxis sp. , is described and illustrated by monites, brachiopods, corals, and smaller foramin­ thin-section photomicrographs. This form is from ifers. The reported smaller foraminifers appear to the Early Permian Calaveras Formation of Amador be a characteristic Tournaisian Ki zel microfauna County, in the western foothills of the Sierra which grades into the lower Visean. [A good many Nevada, California. of the listed generic and specific names are mis­ spelled]. 46. D URK INA, A. V., 1959, On the Devoni an and Carboniferous limits in tbe Timan-Petchora 42. D AUG IN, F., 1929, Et ude stratigraphique et pale­ region. IN: Strati grapby of tbe lower part of ontologique du Carbonifere de la rive droite the Lower Carboniferous in the Volga-Ural de l'Oued Guir (Confins Algero-Marocains de district of the Russian Platform: V.N.I.G.R.I., Sud): Service des Mines et de la carte Geol­ No. 14, p. 200-215, 2 text-fig., [in Russian]. ogique du Maroc, Notes et Mem. No.4, 47 p. , The writer notes tbat in tbe Timan-Petchora 8 pI., 4 text-fig ., [in French]. region of the Soviet Union the lower boundary of The writer reports the occurrence of a Low- the Lower Carbonife rous is pl aced at a sli ght dis­ er Carboniferous (Visean) microfauna (ValvlIlilla conformity underlying tbe Elldotilyra coml11l1l1is­ p. [now T etrataxis], Climacammilla, and Endo­ E. kobeitllsalla assemblage Zone. Tbe Tournaisian Ih yra) from Algeria, North Africa. The above Stage is further divided into 7 microfaunal assem­ iorms are illustrated by random thin-section photo­ bl ages based upon previously described smaller mic rographs. [This stratigraphic interval was re­ foraminifers. ce nt ly re-studied by Pareyn (1960) who found that :his unit stradd les the Visean-Namurian boundary.] 47. D URKINA, A. V., 1959, Resolutions of the col­ -13. DAV IS, A. G., 1945, Micro-organisms in the loquium on stratigrapbic problems of the base Carboniferous of the Alpor! boring. Appen­ of the Lower Carboniferous. IN: Stratigraphy dix I, p. 312-318, 1 table. IN: Hudson, of the lowe r part of tbe Lower Carboniferous R.G .S. , and Cotton, G., the Lower Carboni­ in tbe Volga-Ural district of tbe Russian Plat­ fe rous in a boring at Alport, Derbyshire: form : V.N.I.G.R.I., No. 14, p. 216-223, [in Yorkshire Geol. Soc., Proc., v. 25 , pI. 4, p. Russian] . 254-330, pI. 19, 6 text-fi g. Tbe writer notes tbat 3 boundaries are com­ The writer reports the occurrence and strat­ monly used in tbe Soviet Union to cbaracterize tbe _ phic distribution of a variety of micro-organ­ base of tbe Lower Carboni ferous, tbese are : (I) :srns in the Lower Carboniferous (middle and up­ tbe first appearance of Ell dolilyra com m lillis (base :xr Visean) rocks encountered in a cored interval of the Ozerko-Kbovansk Beds), (2) tbe acme of en at Alport Dale, north Derbyshire, England. E. commullis and first appearance of E. kobeitllsalla ·rty-five previously described smaller foramin­ (base of Etroeungt), and (3) tbe extinction of the """'= are identified and their strati graphic range E. com mUllis-E. kobeilusalla assemblage (base of ...nhin the cored interval shown on Table 1. No fora­ tbe Malevka). No majority agreement is found - iferal systematics or illustrations are included. among the micropaleontologists working in tbe va­ rious regions of tbe Soviet Union, bence it is be­ .!...; . D ELEPIN E, G., and LECOINTRE, G., 1933, lieved tbat additional studies are needed to be able Etudes geologiques dans la region paleozoique to resolve tbe problem. Tbey generall y agreed on comprise entre Rabat et THiet: Ser. des Mines tbe need for coincidence in tbe stages and in tbe et de la Carte Geol. du Maroc, Notes el. systems. Tbe Famennian-Tournaisian boundary Mem. No. 28, 80 p., 14 pI. , 3 fi g., [in French]. should be fixed at the Devoniw-Carboniferous level. The writer illustrates (pI. 8) an Elldothyra t thin-section photomicrograph ) from the Low- 48 . EFIMOVA, N. A., 1961 , On the Foraminifera :.- Carboniferous (Visean) rocks of Tiftet, Moroc­ of tbe Upper Permian and Lower Triassic of :-Iorth Africa. The endothyroids occur in an Armenia and Nachitchevan: Bull. M.O.I.P., ·tic rock in which bryozoans are a conspicuous otdel geol. , n.s., v. 36, no. 6, p. 116-117, [in . component. Russian]. 54 TOOMEY AND l\,IAMET-BIBLIOG RAPHY OF P ALEOZO IC NOl'\FUSULIN ID FORA1\Ill'\ lFERA , ADD. 6

The writer briefly summarizes the occur­ upon previously described species of Archaediscid­ rences of smaller foraminifers ( previously described ae, Bradyinidae, Lasiodiscid ae, Endothyridae, and taxa) from the Upper Permian-Lower Triassic pas­ Fusulinidae. sage beds, and in particular that of the Djulfiskian Stage, from Armenia and Nachitchevan, U.S.S.R. 53. E LiSEEV, A . I., 1958, The stratigraphy of the Carboniferous of the southern part of the 49. EINOR, O. L., 1953, Materials of the All-Union Chernychev Ridge : Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Paleontological Society concerning the pas­ Doklady, v. 121 , no. 2, p. 339-342, I text-fig., sage beds of the Lower to Middle Carbonifer­ [in Russian]. ous: All-Union Paleont. Soc., Ann., v. 14, p. From the region of the Chernyshev Ridge, 264-272, [in Russian]. near the Petchora River, U.S.S.R., a complete se­ The Namurian rocks of the Second Baku quence of rocks ranging in age from Upper Devo­ region of the Soviet Union are subdivided into two ni an to Lower Permian is subdivided into 17 bio­ microfauna horizons based upon previously de­ stratigraphical units, characterized by previously scribed smaller foraminifers and Fusulinidae. The described forms of smaller foraminifers or fusulin­ lower horizon is characterized by Endothyra crassa id s. The base of the Lower Carboniferous is here var. sphaerica [now Elldothyranopsis], Bradyina regarded as the base of the acme Endothyra com­ cribrostomata, and A rchaediscus baschkiricus [now munis [now Quasiendothyra]. Asteroarchaediscus]; the upper horizon is character­ ized by A rchaediscus gregorii. 54. FEDOROVA, T., 1959, On the Devonian-Car­ boniferous limit in the Saratov region. IN: 50. EINOR, O. L., 1954, New data on the stratig­ Stratigraphy of the lower part of the Lower raphy of the Middle Carboniferous in the Carboniferous in the Volga-Ural district of southern Fergan: Geol. Sbornik, Lvovskoe the Russian Pl atform: V.N.I.G.R.I., No. 14, Geol. Obschestvo, No. I, p. 180-190, [in p. 127-130, [in Russian] . Ukrainian]. In the Volga region of the Soviet Union, the The writer describes four Middle Carbonif­ base of the Lower Carboniferous is pl aced at the erous microfaunal assemblages from the carbonate first appearance of the foraminifer Elldothyra com­ rocks of Turkestan, U.S.S.R. The biostratigraphic munis. However, the writer notes that an appreci­ zonation is based upon previously described species able hiatus could be present in the Upper Devonian of Endothyridae, Palaeotextulariidae, Bradyinidae, sequence of this region. Archaediscidae, and Fusulinidae. 55. FI EBIG, H ., 1954, Der neue Richtschichten­ 51. EINOR, O. L., 1955, On the stratigraphy of the scbnitt fUr die Wittener (Esskohlen) Schicht­ Visean of the upper Bashkiria: Akad. Nauk en 1m niederrheinisch-westfalischen Stein­ S.S.S.R., Doklady, v. 103, no. 4, p. 689-692, kohlengebiet: Gliickauf, v. 90, no. 9/10, p. [in Russian]. 260-270, 9 text-fig., [in German]. From the upper Bashkirian region of the The writer reports the occurrence of al!­ Soviet Union, an incomplete Lower Carboniferous glutinated Foraminifera (A mmodiscus, Gl o m ospir~ . (Visean) sequence rests unconformably on the Glomospirella, and Hyperammina) in the marine Tournaisi an interval and can be subdivided into and limnic Middle Carboniferous cycles of We seven foraminiferal assemblages. The smaller for­ Germany. The distribution of the foraminifers, in aminifers, all previously described, indicate correla­ addition to pelecypods and ostracodes, is shown on tion with the Stalinogorsk-Protvae interval of the graphic sections. One thin-section photomicro­ Russian Platform. [It is noted that the reported oc­ graph of a hyperamminid foraminifer is shown on currences of A rchaediscus ex. gr. bashkiricus, G 10- text-fig. 8. bivalvulina, and Eostaffella paraprolvae would sug­ gest a lower Namurian age for the upper portion 56. FRANSSEN , L., 1967, Donnees nouvelles sur les of this sequence.] Foraminiferes du Tournaisien et du ViSeeD: Geol. Soc. Belgium, Ann., v. 90, 1966-6 . 52. EINOR, O. L., 1955, On the Bashkirian Stage Bull. 4, p. 571-583, I pI. , 1 text-fig., 2 tables, in the mountainous Bashkiria: Akad. Nauk [in French]. S.S.S.R., Doklady, v. 104, no. I, p. 130-133, An examination of the Lower Carboniferous [in Russian]. (lower and middle Tournaisian) of the Combl . From the mountainous region of Basbkiria, region, in the eastern part of the Dinant synclinori­ Soviet Union, the writer reports that four Middle um, Belgium. establishes a relationship between the Carboniferous (Bashkirian) microfaunal assem­ rock lithology and foraminiferal content. The ap­ blages are utilized in biostratigraphically subdivid­ pearance, growth, and extinction of tbe smaller ing this interval. The microfaunal zonation is based foraminifers are correlated witb the decrease of CONTRIBUTIONS FRO)'1 THE CUSHMAN FOUNDATION FOR FORA l\1LNIFERAL RESEA.RCH 55 terrigenous deposits and the petrographic character are also described. All described forms (Permian­ of the limestone units. This relationship is pro­ Lower Mesozoic) are illustrated by whole-specimen nounced for the lower and middle Tournaisian drawings. The Permian form Pseudoglandlilina QlIasiendothyra and Chemyshinella faunal Zones. pygmae/ormis Miklukho-Makl ai is transferred to the During extinction of these faunal zones, an associa­ genus R ectoglandlililla. [The genus R ectoglandul­ tion of Plectogyra? ex. gr. rudis and single-cham­ ina is currently considered to be synonymous with bered foraminifers appeared. The form Palaeo­ Pseudonodosaria Boomgaart.] spiroplectammilla tchernyshinensis was discovered in the Tournaisian substages Tn I a and Tn3a. Pre­ 60. GOLUBSOV, V. K., and K EDO, G. 1, 1959, On liminary data from examination of the middle and the discovery of the Yasnapoliansk Substage upper Tournaisian and the lower Visean in the Wal­ of the Lower Carboniferous in the Chernogov court region of the Dinant synclinorium reveal ,he borehole: Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Doklady, v. presence of two associations of lower Visean as­ 127, no. I, p. 159-161 , I text-fig., [in Russian]. pect. A few foraminifers are illustrated by repre­ The writers report a sparse microfauna of sentative thin-section photomicrographs on Plate I , Lower Carboniferous age (Visean) consisting prin­ and all of the Visean forms are listed on table 2. cipally of Archaediscidae and Endothyridae (all previously described) from the Chernigov bore­ 57. FROMAGET, J., 1952, Etudes geologiques wr hole, U.S.S.R. This microfauna is equivalent to Ie Nord-Ouest du Tonkin et Ie Nord du Haut­ that from the upper Tula horizon of the Russian Laos: Servo Geol. Indochine, Bull., v. 29 , pI. Pl atform. 6, 198 p., 8 pI. , 22 text-fi g., I map, [in French]. A microfauna of ValvlIlina blilloides [now 61. GRAY, R. S., 1967, Cache Field- A Pennsyl­ GlobivalvlIlina], Spirillina chinensis, Textularia vanian algal reservoir in southwestern Colo­ textlilari/ormis [now PalaeotexllIlaria], Endothyra rado: Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists, Bull., parva, E. globllllls [now Globoendothyra] and E. v. 51, no. 10, p. 1959-1978,27 text-fig. bowmani is reported from the Carboniferous ( Pennsylvanian) Moscovian limestones of Indo­ The writer notes that smaller foraminifers are fairly common in the Pennsylvanian (Des­ china, southeast Asia. From the Permian rocks of this region the moinesian) foraminiferal-pell etal limestones asso­ occurrence of the smaller foraminifer Pachyphloia ciated with algal-plate carbonate mounds present f. P. pedicullis is a lso noted. in the Cache Field of so uthwestern Colorado. It is stated that foraminifers are plentiful (50% or more 58. GALITSKAIA-GLADCHENKO, A, IA. , 1960, On of the rock) and diversified. Encrusting calcareous the stratigraphy of the Carboniferous in north­ types such as Tuberitina, Tetrataxis and Hedrailes, ern Kirgiztan: Akad. Nauk Kirgiz., Izvestia, and calcareous mobile types such as Climacam­ ser. est. i teknik nauk, v. 2, no. 9, p. 5-22, I mina, Bradyina, Globivaivulina, Endothyra, and chart, [in Russian]. fusulinids are abundant. Agglutinated mobile and The writer describes 8 foraminiferal assem­ encrusting types such as Hyperammina and Minam­ blage zones from the Carboniferous rocks of north­ modytes? are also present. Text-figs. 14 and 16 il­ ern Kirgiztan, U.S.S.R. All taxa appear to be pre­ lustrate some of the above forms. \'iously described and range in age from Lower Carboniferous (upper Tournaisian) to Middle Car- 62. GROZDILOVA, L. P., 1959, On the lower limit niferous (middle Namurian). [A number of the of the Carboniferous. IN: Stratigraphy of the listed taxa appear to be nomina Illida. These in­ lower part of the Lower Carboniferous in the -Iude the following: Tuberitina reitlingeri var. ten­ Volga-Ural district of the Russian Platform: uissima, Quas;tuberit;na In;nima, Hyperammina V.N.I.G.R.I., No. 14, p. 82-84, [in Russian]. param;n;ma, H. parwl1illima var. crassa, H. para­ The writer notes that considerable doubt n tlgaris, Eotuberitilla crassa var. minima, Quasi­ exists concerning the correlations of the calci­ luberi!illa magna var. millor, and Plectogyra para­ sphaerid-rich Khovansk beds of the central part of rurrestallica]. the Russian Platform and the Endothyra communis­ E. kobeilusana beds of the Urals. She therefore 59. GERKE, A. A., 1961, R ecloglandlilina in the believes that the base of the Lower Carboniferous Permian and the Lower Mesozoic of north­ should be drawn at the base of the Bisphaera beds, central Siberia: Leningrad Nauch.-Issled. Inst. which is the base of the Malevka Horizon. Geol. Arktiki, Sbornik Stat. pal. i biostrat., Bull. 23, p. 5-34, 6 pI., [in Russian]. 63. GUMBEL, C. W., 1879, Geognotische Be­ The author presents a complete revision of schreibung des Fichtelgebirges mit dem Frank­ :he foraminiferal genus Rectoglalldlilina Loeblich enwalde und dem westlichen Vorlande. Pt. 3 1nd Tappan. Three Lower Mesozoic new species of Geognostische Beschreibung des Konig- 56 TOOl\II!:Y A ND MAUET-B1B L1 0CRAPH Y O F PALEOZOI C. 1\'ONFUSUL1 N ID F O H A"l\ U l" IFERA, ADD. C

reichs Bayern: 698 p. , numerous text-figs. ( un­ 67. ILY NA, N. S., 1953, New data on the stratig­ numbered) and tables, 2 maps, [in German] . raphy of the Lower Carboniferous deposits in From the Lower Carboniferous rocks of the tbe Surs-Mokchinsk Uplift: Akad. Nauk S.S. Fichtelgebirge (in East Germany) the writer re­ S.R., Doklady, v. 91 , no. 5, p. 11 91 -11 94, ports the occurrence of the following foraminifers: [in Russian]. Trochammina illcerta, Valvulilla palaeotrochus, V. The writer reports an abbreviated Lower bul/oides, Endoth yra bowmalli, E. omata, E. am­ Carboniferous (Tournaisian ) rock sequence from mOll oides, Nodosillel/a digitata, and N . cylindrica. the Surs-Mokchinsk Uplift region of the Soviet [Most of these early names have been placed in Union. This section is subdivided into 3 foramin­ synonymy by later workers.] iferal horizons based upon the bi sphaerids, tour­ From the Permian Zechstein rocks near nayellids, and problematical forms of unknown af­ Burggrub, the writer reports the occurrence of finity . An important hi atus separates the Cherny­ Nodosaria geillitzi, Trochammina pusilla, and forms shinsk from the overlying Visean sequence whicb referred to the genera Nodosaria, Delltalilla, and is subdivided into 4 zones based on Archaediscidae Textularia. and Endothyridae. These are tentatively correlated with the Tula-Serpukhev interval of tbe Russian 64. G UBLER, J., 1934, Traits generaux de la struc­ Platform. All taxa have been previously described . ture du Cambodge Nord-Occidental. Sa posi­ tion tectonique dans Ie bati de I'Tndochine du 68. J ODOT, P., 1932, Sur Ie bassin dinantien de la Sud: Bull. Soc. Geol. France, 5eme ser. , v. 3, Tour Margine ruinee dit de Capitello (Corse no. 7-8, p. 583-596, I map, [in French]. NW): Soc. Geol. France, Bull., ser. 5, v. 2, Smaller foraminifers referred to the genus p. 605-6\1 , [in French]. Endothyra are reported (p. 586) from the Lower The writer reports a microfauna of A mmo­ Carboniferous phtanites of Cambodia, southeast Asia. discus, Nodosillella, A rchaedisclls, and Elldothyra sp. ct. E. bowmalli, from the Lower Carboniferous 65. GUVENC, T., 1966, Representants des Beresel­ Capitello Limestone of northwest Corsica. [The leae (Algues calcaires) dans Ie Carbonifere de Capitello Limestone is now regarded as Upper Turquie et description d'un nouveau genre: Devoni an (highest Famennian) or lowermost Tour­ Goksuella n. g.: Bull. Soc. Geol. France, ?erne naisian (Lower Carboniferous) .] ser., v. 7, p. 843-850, pI. 32, I text-fig., 3 tables, [in French]. 69 . KAISIN , F., 1926, Les Roches du Dinantien de Primarily a paper describing Late Paleozoic la Belgique: C.R., I3 th lnt. Geol. Congo algal floras, however two Middle Carboniferous (1922), Bel gium, v. 3, p. 1237-1269, pI. 27- microfaunas are reported from algal-bearing hori­ 32, [in French]. zons in the Taurus Mountains, Turkey. A Bash­ The writer reports the following smaller kirian (Lower Pennsylvanian) horizon is character­ Foraminiferal genera as occurring in rocks of the ized by Bradyilla sp. atf. B. lIautili/ormis, B. Lower Carboniferous (Tournaisian) Waulsortian venusta, B. sphaeroidea, A rchaedisclls sp., Mora­ facies of Belgium: Elldothyra, Lagella [probably vammilla carbollica, and Eotllberitilla reitlillgera e. Earlandia or Earlalldillita], Textularia [now Palae­ A younger Moscovian (Middle Pennsylvani an) otextularia] , Saccammilla [now Saccammillopsis], horizon contains Bradyilla splweroidea, N eotuber­ Climacammilla, and ValvlIlilla [now Tetrataxis]. itilla maljavkilli, Palaeonubercularia f/u xa, and The problematical form Calcisphaera atf. C. Tetrataxis lIumerabilis. /imbriata Williamson is referred to the Foraminif­ era, and it is noted that these forms commonly oc­ 66 . GUVENC, T., 1966, Description de quelques cur in sapropelic and lagoonal rock facies. especes d'algues calcaires (Gymnocodi acees Excell ent microfacies photomicrographs are et D asycladacees) du Carboni fere et du Per­ included, and a few foraminifers are identified in mien des Taurus occidentaux (Turquie): Rev. some of the photomicrographs. Micropaleontol., v. 9, no. 2, p. 94-103, 3 pI., 3 tables, [in French]. 70. KILIGINA, M. L., and CHELNOVA, A. K., 1959, Primarily a paper describing a number of On the Devonian-Carboniferous limit in Ta­ new Upper Paleozoic algae from the Taurus Moun­ tari a and on the zonation of tbe terrige nous tains of Turkey. The writer notes that the strati­ sediments of the Lower Carboniferous. IN: graphic age of the algae-bearing beds is disclosed Stratigraphy of the lower part of the Lower by the characteristic microfacies associations: Carboniferous of the Volga-Ural district of Geillitzilla, Glomospira , Glom ospirella, Eotuberit­ the Russian Platform: V.N.I.G.R.I., No. 14, ilia, Pachyph/oia, and Agathammilla for the Per­ p. 97-103, 1 text-fig., [in Russian]. mian, and Plectogyra for the Visean (Lower Car­ The writer notes that the base of tbe Lower boniferous) . Carboniferous (Tournaisian) in Tataria, Soviet CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE CUSHMAN F OUND ATION F OR F ORAMINIFERAL RES E AR CH 57

Union, is drawn at the first appearance of Endo­ Table I shows the stratigraphic distribution of the thyra commullis, E. alltiqua, and E. primae va. The Capitello Limestone microfauna on Corsica. Kizel Horizon, characterized by E . latispiralis [now Latiendothyra), E. spinosa [now Spinoelldothyra), 74. LIBROVlTCH , L. S., 1961, The lower boundary and Spiroplectammilla tchernyshillensis [now Palae­ of the Carboniferous System and criteria for ospiroplectammilla), is considered as Tournaisian age. its determination: IV Congres pour l'advance­ ment de la stratigraphie du Carbonifere, Heer­ 71. KNUPFER, 1., 1967, Zur Mikrofauna aus dem len (1958), C.R., v. 2, p. 375-379, [in English). unteren Teil des Zechsteins von RUgen: Frei­ The Etroeungt Zone in the Ural region of berger Forsch., C-213, p. 73-99, 5 pI., 2 text­ the Soviet Union contains the foraminifers Sepla­ fig., [in German). tau may ella, Quasielldothyra kobeitusana, numerous Four wells drilled on Ruegen Island (Meck­ Elldotflyra commullis [now Quasielldothyra), as well lenburg, north Germany) encountered the Zech­ as rare Tournayella, Brunsiina, Brunsia, Cherny­ steinkalk Member of the Upper Permian Zechstein shillella, Glomospiranella, Spiropleclammina [now Formation in different facies. Three wells found Palaeospiroplectammilla), Klubovella, and Cribro­ soft, calcareous, shaly, clayey deposit containing endothyra. ostracodes, foraminifers, scolecodonts, conodonts, It is emphasized that the Devonian-Carbon­ and bryozoans. The northeastern-most location had iferous boundary is to be placed at the base of this unfossiliferous red-brown and green-gray, clayey zone. However, on the Russian Platform the lower sandstone, indicating non-marine Zechstein. The boundary of the Carboniferous should not be drawn writer lists 22 previously described smaller fora­ higher than at the base of the Khovansk Beds. minifers from the marine Zechsteinkalk Member Whether the Ozerko Horizon belongs to the Devo­ re presenting the following genera: Ammodiscus, nian or to the Lower Carboniferous remains un­ AlIIlI1 obaculites, Agathammina, Aschemollella, Am­ settled. mO l'erlel/a, Calcitomella [now Hedrailes), Fron­ dicularia, Geillitzina, Glomospira, Glomospirella, 75. LiPINA , O. A., 1959, On the Devonian-Car­ LilJ gulilJa, LUflucammilJa, Lituotuba, N odosaria, boniferous boundary in the oriental part of the and Spalldelilloides. Russian Platform and the western slope of the southern Urals. IN: Stratigraphy of the 2. KOCHANSKY-DEVIDE, V., 1967, Neoschwager­ lower part of the Lower Carboniferous of the inenschichten einer Tiefbohrung in Istrien Volga-Ural district of the Russian Platform: (Jugoslawien): N. Jb. Geol. PaHiont. Abh., v. V.N.I.G.R.I., No. 14, p. 31-50, I text-fig., 2 128, no. 2, p. 201-204, pI. 15-16, [in German). tables, [in Russian). A deep borehole near Rovinj (south of The writer presents a comparison of various Trieste), Jugoslavia, penetrated a section of Juras­ biostratigraphic sequences used in discussing the ' -. Triassic, and Permian rocks. The writer studied biostratigraphy. of the Ural region of the Soviet rocks of the Permian interval and from two Union. The Upper Devonian-Lower Carboniferous . cipal foraminifer-bearing beds she has listed a boundary (Famennian-Tournaisian) is drawn at ber of previously described genera of smaller the acme of Endolhyra com mUllis, which usually Foraminifera and fusulinids. Some of the micro­ coincides with the first appearance of E. kobeitus­ a is illustrated by rather poor thin-section alia. It is noted the E. commullis appears early omicrographs of randomly oriented specimens. within the Seplatournayella rauserae Zone. The Malevka horizon is drawn at the disappearance of -:l. KRYLATOV, S., and MAMET, B. , 1966, Don­ Elldothyra commullis, which usually coincides with nees nouvelles sur les terrains paleozoiques de the appearance of Bisplwera. The Cherepet hori­ I" Argentella-Tour Margine (Corse). Attribu­ zon is recognized with the appearance of Cherny­ lion a la limite devono-carbonifere du calcaire shillella glomi/armis. de Capitello: Soc. Geol. de France, Bull., 7th ser. , v. 8, p. 73-79, 2 text-fig., I table, [in 76. LUCAS, G., 1942, Description geologique et French). petrographique des Monts de Ghar Rouban et The Capitello Limestone of Corsica, orig­ du Sidi el Abed: Serv. Carte Geol. Algerie, __ described as Lower Carboniferous (Visean) Bull. 2eme ser., No. 16, 538 p. , 34 pI. , 13 text­ . is shown to contain a microfauna dominated fig., [in French) . 2 Quasielldothyra of the group Q. commullis-Q. A lower Carboniferous microfauna of Val­ ...... u ll is commullis. This microfauna appears to Vlililla [= Telralaxis), Ammodiscus [Brullsia?) , -::orrelative with assemblages observed in the Trochammilloides [now Forschia and/or Forschi­ Devonian (Famennian)-Lower Carbonifer­ ella), and Elldothyra is briefly noted and illustrated Tournaisian) passage beds of northern France. by line drawings. The foraminifers are from the 58 TOO"EY A"D " IA"I ET- BIBLIOGRAPH Y OF PALEOZOIC KO:

Visean Ain Tiliouine Limestones of North Africa S.S.S.R., Doklady, v. 74, no. 2, p. 349-352, (border region of Algeria and Morocco). [in Russian]. Five foraminiferal assemblages are reported 77. LUDBRooK, N. H., 1965, Minlation and Stans­ from the limestones of the Shartymbo River region bury stratigraphic bores, subsurface stratig­ of the southern Urals, U.s.S.R. These microfaunal raphy and micropalaeontology. IN: Crawford, assemblages are composed of previously described A. R. , The geology of Yorke Peninsula : Geo!. species of Archaediscidae, Biseriamminidae, Palaeo­ Survey South Australia, Bull ., No. 39, Appen­ textulariidae, and Endothyridae. [Analysis of the mi­ dix, p. 83-96, 2 tables. crofaunal lists indicates that these assemblages range The Minlaton Bore on Yorke Peninsula, in age from Lower Carboniferous (upper Visean ) South Australia, penetrated 596 feet of Lower Per­ to Middle Carboniferous (middle Namurian).] mian (lowermost? Sakmarian) glacigenes contain­ ing a typical Permian smaller foraminiferal assem­ 81. MALAKH OVA , N . P., 1951, Foraminifera of the blage, principally agglutinated forms (all previ­ Carboniferous complex in the western slope ously described) . of the middle and northern Urals: Akad. Nauk The Stansbury Bore, in the same general lo­ S.S.s.R., Doklady, v. 81 , no. 6, p. 1117-1120, cation, penetrated Lower Permian (lowermost? Sak­ [in Russian]. marian) glacigenes 776 feet thick and contained a The writer reports that the Lower Carbonif­ microfauna similar to that noted in the Minlaton erous (Visean) terrigenous sequence of the western Bore. It is noted that the foraminiferal assemblage slope of the northern and middle Ural Mountains, appears to be most nearly related to that recorded U.S.S.R., can be subdivided into four microfauna! by Crespin (1958) from a section in the Lower assemblages. These microfaunal assemblages are Permian Quamby Mudstone from near Oonah, composed of both fu sulinids and smaller foramin­ Tasmania. ifers; all taxa have been previously described.

78. MALAKHOVA, N. P., 1941 , The stratigraphic 82. MALAKHOVA, N. P., 1953 , Some new data con­ section of the deepest bore-hole in the center cerning the age of the Carboniferous in the of the Russian Pl atform: Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Sikhai Log region, on the eastern slope of the Izvestia, ser. geo!. No. 4-5, p. 97-111, [in middle Urals: Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. , Doklady Russian, with English summary]. v. 88 , no. 3, p. 535-537, [in Russian]. A borehole in the Polometsk Uplift, in the The writer reports two foraminiferal assem­ center of the Russian Platform, U.S.S.R. , has dis­ blages, composed principally of previously described closed a complete Permo-Carboniferous section. taxa of the Archaediscidae and Endothyridae, from The upper portion is zoned on fu sulinids and mega­ the Carboniferous rocks of the middle Urals, U.S. fauna. The lower portion of the section is zoned S.R. [Evaluation of the microfaunal lists suggests on smaller foraminifers; two Vi sean, one Namuri­ a probable middle to upper Visean age for this an, and one Bashkirian horizon are recognized and group of rocks.] zoned on the basis of the enclosed Endothyridae 83. MALAKH OVA , N. P., 1956, The most important and Archaediscidae. [All taxa have been previously stages of evolution of the foraminifers in the described, with the exception of the foraminifer Lower Carboniferous of the Urals : Akad. H y perammina inlermedia, which, to the compilers' Nauk S.S.s.R., Doklady, v. 106, no. 6, p. knowledge, appears to be a nomen nudum.] 1076-1079, [in Russian]. 79. MALAKHOVA, N. P. , 1949, On the Chernyshin The writer reports that the Lower Carbonif­ Limestone of the western slope of the middle erous rocks of the Ural Mountains, U.S.S.R., can Urals: Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R ., Doklady, v. 65, be stratigraphicall y zoned and characterized by dis­ no. 3, p. 349-351 , [in Russian]. tinctive foraminiferal assemblages. The Upper De­ The writer notes that the lower limits of the vonian ( Famennian) displ ays abundant forms of Chernyshin horizon (Lower Carboniferous) along Calige l/a, Bispftaera, and Arcftaespftaera. The up­ the western slope of the Ural Mountains, U.S.S.R., permost Devonian (Famennian) and lowermost is conveniently placed at the first appearance of the Carboniferous (Tournaisian) passage beds are foraminifer Spirop/eclammina Icft em ysftinensis [now zoned on species of Quasiendolftyra. The Tour­ Pa/aeospirop/eclammina]. The upper limit of the naisian is recognized by the presence of Spirop/ec­ unit is placed at the first occurrence of Endolftyra lammina [no Pa/aeospirop/ec lammina], T oumaye/­ spinosa [now Spinoendol/lyra]. la, and Biseriammina. The lower Visean carries Hap/opftragm el/a, Liluolubel/a, and Telralaxis, 80. MALAKHOVA, N. P., 1950, Some new data on whereas the middle and upper Vi sean are charac­ the limestones of the Shartymbo River region terized by the development of the Archaediscidae , of the southern Urals, U.S.S.R.: Akad. Nauk Cribrospira, Cribroslomum, and M onolaxis [now CONTRIBUTI ONS FROM THE CUSH:'U A:-\ FOUN D ATION FOR FORA~UN I FERAL RESEARCH 59

HOlVchil/ia). The upper limit of the Visean is dif­ 87. MARUC HKIN, I. A., 1962, New data on the ficult to ascertain with certainty. [The Visean­ stratigraphy of the Upper Paleozoic sediments Namurian boundary should perhaps be chosen in a of the basin of the Koksu River (Alai Ridge) : higher horizon, e.g., at the EostafJella protvae level, Univ. Visnyk, Lvov, ser. geol., No. I , p, 25- since such a level is known to occur hi gh in the E~ 3 1, 2 text-fig ., [in Ukrai nian). of western Europe.) The writer reports the occurrence of at least five different microfaunal assemblages (fusulinids 84. MALAKH OVA, N . P. , 1957, New Lower Carbon­ and smaller foraminifers) from the Middle and iferous foraminiferal species of the Urals: Upper Carboniferous and Lower Permian sedi­ Akad. Nauk S.s.S.R., Ural Filial, Gorno ments of the Koksu River basin of central Asia. Geol. lnst., Trudy, Bull . 28 , p. 3-8, 2 pI., [All taxa have been previously described, wi th the [in Russian). exception of the foraminifer Bisphaera tireoularis Nine species of ~ maller foraminifers are de­ Birina, which appears to be a I/ om en nudum; or scribed from the Lower Carboniferous (Tournaisian perhaps, it is a misprint of B. irregularis? ) and Visean ) rocks of the Ural Mountai ns, U.S.S.R. Of the 9 described species 7 are new. The new 88. M URRAY, F. N., and CHRON IC, J., 1965, Penn­ forms are: Forschiella mikhailovi, Lituotubella sylvanian conodonts and other fossi ls from eil/ori, Permodiscus reftus, EI/dothyra(?) tschik­ insoluble residues of the Minturn Formation mal/ica, E. superlata, Quasiel/dotllyra(?) tu/el/sis, ( Desmoinesian), Colorado: Jour. Paleontol­ and Rectocon/uspira cumulata. All described spe­ ogy, v. 39, no. 4, p. 594-610, pI. 71-73, 2 cies are illustrated by thin-section photomicrographs. text-fig. One new fusulinid is also described and illustrated. A stud y of the conodont microfauna derived from acid residues has shown that a thin limestone 85 . MALAKHOVA , N . P., 1959, On the lower and interva l within the Miniturn Formati on, exposed in upper limits of the Tournaisian in the Urals. northwestern Colorado, is of Middle Pennsylvanian I N : Stratigraphy of the lower part of (he ( Desmoinesian ) age. Associated with the cono­ Lower Carboniferous of the Volga-Ural dis­ donts are agglutinated foraminifers referred to the trict of the Russian Pl atform: V.N.l.G.R.l., genera Ammodiscus, Tolypammina [now Minam­ No. 14, p. 146-155, I text-fig., I table, [in modytes), and A mmovertella. Russian) . T he writer notes that the base of the Lower 89. OR LOV, Y u. A., RA USER-C HER NOUSSOVA , D. Carboniferous (Tournaisian ) is placed at the base M., and FURS EN KO , A. V., 1959, Fundamen­ of the EI/dothyra commul/is-E. primae va-E. kobeit­ tals of paleontology (Osnovy Paleontologii ), usal/a assemblage Zone in the Ural region of the General Part-Protozoa, Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Soviet Union. The upper limit of the Tournaisian Moscow, [English translation published for pl aced at the top of the C hikman Horizon, the National Science Foundation by the Israel marked by the appearance of Toun/ayella molleri Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusa­ and Palaeotextularia diversa. [The microfauna of lem, 1962, 728 p. , 13 pI., 1088 text-fig.). the lower Visean, sel/ su Malakhova, is observed in Primarily a manual for the use of Soviet e upper Tournaisian of the type-locality; see paleontologists and geologists. Included are a num­ ~ [ a met , 1965 and Ganelina, 1966.) ber of new Paleozoic family and subfamil y designa­ tions, these include the following; (A) for pre-Car­ 6. MAM ET, B., CHOUBERT, G., and H OTTINGER , boniferous smaller foraminifers: a new Upper De­ L., 1966, Notes sur Ie Carbonifere du jebel vonian ge nus, Gribrosp/weroides Reitlinger, for Ouarkziz Etude du passage du Viseen au Na­ Gribrosphaera Reitlinger, 1954; erection of the new murian d'apres les Foraminiferes: Notes du family Cali gellidae Reitlinger to include 6 Upper Servo geol. du Maroc, v. 27 (Notes et memo Devoni an genera (Ga ligella , Evlania, Paracaligella, no. 198 ), p. 6-21 , 4 pI. , 4 text-fig., [in French). Baituganella , Paratikhinella, and Tikhinella ); erec­ The writers report and discuss the foramin­ tion of the new subfamil y Colaniellinae Fursenko 'eral assemblages and associations present in the to include 3 Upper Devonian to Upper Permian Lowe r Carboniferous (Visean and lower Namuri­ genera (M ultiseptida, Golaniella, and Wangal/ ella); ) rocks of North Africa. T he North African erection of the new subfamily Nanicellinae Fursenko :oraminiferal sequence is compared and contrasted to include 5 Upper Devonian to Upper Permian that present in northern England and at the genera (Nanicella, Gourisina, R obuloides, Para­ localities in Belgium, and both si milarities and robuloides, and Eocristellaria) ; erection of the new -erences noted. Four plates of characteristic famil y Pse udopalmulidae Bykova to include 3 De­ - '-Iypes (low-power photomicrographs) present vonian genera (Pseudopalmula, ParatexlUlaria, and - the North African sections are also included. Semitextularia) ; ( B) for Late Paleozoic smaller 60 T OOl\IE Y A N D MAi\!E T - B I B LIOGRAP H Y O F PALEOZOI C !\'ONFUSL"LI N I D F'ORAi'lI U\I F8R A , ADD . 6 foraminifers : a new name, Turrispiroides Reitlinger, recogni zed. The strati graphic section exposed in for Turrispira Reitlinger, 1950; erection of the new the Richelle Quarries comprises the Upper Devo­ subfamily Haplophragmellinae Reitlinger to in­ nian (Frasni an) and the Lower Carboni fe rous clude 4 Carboniferous genera (Mstillia, Ell do­ (lower Vi sean, parts of the middle Visean and up­ th yrilla, Haplophragm ella, and Ha plophragmilla); per Visean) . The Tournaisian and the Famennian erection of the new famil y Lasiodiscidae Reitlinger are absent in the quarries, but are present on the to incl ude 5 Carboniferous and Permian genera Vise Massif and at the "Ia Folie" Quarry near the (HolVehillia, M Oll otaxil/oides, Eolasiodiseus, Lasio­ vill age of Berneau. The Vi sean rests unconform­ discus, alld Lasiotrochus) ; erection of the new gen­ ably on the Devonian of the Vise Massi f. A list of us Plalloendothyra Reitlinger with the type species the smaller foraminifers and their stratigraphic Endothy", aljutoviea Reitlinger, 195 0; erecti on of range is given on table 2. the new subfa mily Chernyshinellinae Reitlinger which includes 2 Lower Carboniferous genera 92. POTI EVSKAIA, P. D., 1964, Some fusulinids and (Chem yshillella, and Chem yshillellilla); erection of small Foramini fera in the Bashkir sediments the new genus Chem yshillellilla Reitlinger with of the greater Donets Basin : Akad. Nauk A mmobaculites pygm eus Malakhova, 1954, as the U .S.S.R. (Kiev), Trudy, Inst. Geol. Sci ., type species; erection of the new subfamil y Plecto­ Trans., Strat. & Paleontol. Ser., No. 48, Ma­ gyrinae Reitlinger which includes 5 Carboniferous terials on the U pper Paleozoic fa una of the to Permian genera (Pleetogyra, Pleetogyrilla, Clo­ Donets Basin , v. 2, p. 31-59 , 5 pI. , [in Russian) . boendoth yra, Mikhailovella, and Elldothyrall ella) ; Primaril y a paper describing the fusulinid erection of the new genus Pleetogyrilla Reitlinger microfa una of the Bashkir sediments (lower Mid­ with Elldoth yra? fomiehaellsis Lebedeva, 1954, as dle Carboni ferous) of the greater Donets Basin of the type species; erection of the new genus C lobo­ the Soviet U ni on, however, 5 smaller foraminifers ell dothyra Reitlinger with C . pseudoglobulus Reit­ are also descri bed and illustrated by excellent thin­ linger 11 0m . 11 0 1' . as the type species ( = Elldothyra section photomicrographs. Three of the smaller globulus Moeller, 1878, 1I 01l Eichwald ); and erec­ foraminifers are new: Pleetogyra basehkirica, Tet­ tion of the new subfamil y Endothyranopsinae Reit­ rataxis extellsa, and Eolasiodiscus dilatatlls. linger which includes 2 Devonian to Lower Carbon­ iferous genera (Elldoth yrall opsis, and Rhell othyra ) . 93. POYARK OV , B. V., 1957, On some Foraminif­ Representati ve thin-section photomicrographs are era from the Famenni an and Tournaisian de­ given for each of the new forms. posits of the western spurs of the Tian-Shan Mountains: Leningrad Uni v., Vestnik,ser. geol. 90. P ETRYK , A. A., 1967, Mi ssissippian Forami­ & geograph. No. 12, p. 26-4 1, I text-fig., 8 ni fe ra of southwestern Alberta: Geol. Survey tables, [in Russian with brief Engli sh summary) . Canada, Rept. Acti vities, Paper 67-1 , pt. A, Thi s article deals with the distri bution of 9 p. 105. fa milies, 23 genera, and 56 species of smaller fo­ The writer announces the beginning of a raminifers present in the U pper Devonia n (Famen­ study of the systematics and di stribution of Foram­ ni an) and Lower Carboniferous (Tournaisian ) car­ inifera within the Mississippian rocks of south­ bonates of the Tian-Shan Mountains, asiatic Soviet western Alberta, Canada. Preliminary examination Union. F ive foraminiferal assemblages are recog­ of about 700 samples from the Livingstone, Mount nized and compared with the previously establi shed Head, and Etherington Formations indicates that microfaunal zones of European Russia. [The writer species of the following genera are represented notes two new genera, Quasituberitilla and Exsero­ within these units: Earlall dia, Elldothyra, Stacheia, am m odiscus, plus a number of new spec ies; all are Stacheoides, Tournayella, BrUllsia , Palaeotextularia?, not properly described or illustrated and hence must and Tetrataxis? be regarded as 11 0m ilia IIl1 da . Some of these forms were properly described in a later publication by 91. PIRLET, H., 1967, Nouve lle interpretation des Purkin, et al., 1961 .) carrieres de Richelle: Ie Viseen de Vise: Geol. Soc. Belgium, Ann., v. 90, 1966-67, 94. RAGGATT, H . G ., and CRESP IN, I., 194 1, Geo­ Bull. 4, p. 299-328, 1 pI. , 2 text-fig., 2 tables, logical notes on Natural Gas and Oil Corpo­ [i n French]. ration's bore at Balmain , city of Sydney, New The microfossils (principall y algae and South Wales: Austra li an Jour. Sci., v. 4, p. smaller foraminifers, all previ ously described ) from 102-103. a composite secti on of the Lower Carboniferous A bore hole into the Permian U pper Coal ( Visean ) in the Richelle Quarries at Vise, Belgium, Measures at Balmain , Sydney, New South Wales, indicate that the region underwent several epeiro­ Australia, penetrated a va ried sequence of strata. ge nrc movements. Five strati graphic breaks are Smaller Foraminifera have been found in a few in- 'ONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE CUSHMAN F OUNDATION FOR FORAMINIFERAL RESEARCH 61 tervals; at 4,750 feet Hyperammilloides sp., produc­ G.R.I., No. 14, p. 51-73, 3 text-fig., 1 table, tid brachiopod spines, and ostracodes are common, [in Russian] . whereas, at 4,760 feet the foraminifer Trocham­ The writer stresses the difficulties encoun­ milia sp. is a commonly occurring consti tuent. tered in extending the Quasiendothyra zonation into regions outside the Urals. It is noted that the lime­ 95. RAILEANU, G., and Rusu, A. , 1963 , Contribu­ stones of the central part of the Russian Platform tion it la connaissance du Carbonifere inferi­ are devoid of multilocular foraminifers, hence the eur dans la zone de Drencova (Banat): Re­ zonation in this region must, by necessity, be based vue de Geologie et de Geographie, Acad. Rep. entirely on calcisphaerids and simple monolocular Pop. Romine, v. 7, no. 1, p. 401-408, 4 pI., foraminifers. I text-fig., [in French]. The writer advocates that the Devonian­ The writers briefly describe and illustrate a Carboni ferous boundary should be drawn at the Lower Carboniferous (Visean) smaller foraminifer stratigraphic interval in which Quasielldothyra ko­ (P/ectogyra sp.) occurring in a limestone pebble in beitusalla-Endothyra commullis become extinc!. lhe Drencova zone, Banat region of Rumania, eastern Europe. 99 . REITLINGER, E. A., 1965, On the development of the Foraminifera of the Upper Permian 96. RAZNITSIN, V. A., 1959, The lower Tournai­ and Lower Triassic in Transcaucasia: Akad. sian in the southern Timan. IN: Stratigraphy Nauk S.S.S.R., Voprosy Mikropaleontologii of the lower part of the Lower Carboniferous No. 9, p. 45-70, 2 pI., 4 text-fig., 2 tables, of the Volga-Ural district of the Russian Pl at­ [in Russian] . form : V.N.I.G.R.I., No. 14, p. 177-199, 5 A lucid discussion of the development of text-fig., [in Russian]. foraminiferal assemblages from Late Permian time The writer notes that in the southern Timan into the Lower Triassic as seen in the Transcaucasia region of the Soviet Union the Lower Carbonifer­ region of the Soviet Union. It is noted that the ous (Tournaisian) is subdivided into two m1cro­ Lower Triassic is characterized by the elimination fa unal assemblages. Both of the assemblages are of most Paleozoic foraminiferal genera, although equivalent to the Etroeungt of western Europe and there are a few genera that cross the Permo-Triassic are characterized by the Elldothyra commullis-E. boundary, among which are: Eoelldothyra, Cornu­ kobeitusalla assemblage. [The reported presence of spira, Hemigordius, N odosaria, Delltalilla, Lillgu/­ we foraminifer Forschia in the lower Tournaisian ilia, Geilltzilla, and Spalldelilla. is probably due to confusion wi th a tournayellid]. Four new genera and 5 new species are de­ scribed and illustrated by thin-section photomicro­ 97. REDtCHKtN, N .. A., 1966, Lower Carboniferous graphs and some whole-specimen photomicro­ sediments on the southeastern flank of the graphs. The new forms are: Neoendothyra reicheli Azov Swell: Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Doklady, in the Endothyridae, Dagmarita chanakciliellsis and v. 170, no. 1, p. 186-188, [in Russian; English Paraglobiva/vu/illa mira in the Bi seriamminidae, translation IN: Doklady ESS, v. 170, p. 179- Baisalilla pulchra in the Miliolidae, and Pseudo­ 181, American Geol. Ins!.]. tristix salida in the Lagenidae. In 1953 , the Peschanokopskoye test hole No. 100. REtTLING ER, E. A., 1966, Some problems of was drilled 00 the southeastern fl ank of the Azov classification and evolution of endothyrids and we ll of Precambria'l1 rocks, U.S.S.R. This well primitive fusulinids: Voprosy Mikropaleontol­ pe netrated terrigenous to extrusive rocks and highly ogii, Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Otdel, nauk 0 metamorphosed and deformed rocks with thin part­ zemle, Geol. Insti!. , v. 10, p. 39-67, 3 pI., 3 . gs of limestone at a depth of 2516.0 to 2737.9 m. text-fig., 2 tables, [in Russian] . The foraminiferal microfauna from this interval The writer presents a lucid discussion of the ronsists of previously described species of smaller problems involved in the systematic classification -oraminifers that tend to suggest a Lower Carbon- and stud y of evolutionary lineages of Lower Car­ - erous (middle Visean) age for thi s horizon. These boniferous endothyroid smaller foraminifers and deposits can be correlated with the middle Visean Lower and Middle Carboniferous fusulinid fora­ Bobrikovka Horizon of the standardized scheme minifers. Significant forms are illustrated by thin­ or the Carboniferous. section photomicrographs. REtTLINGER, E. A., 1959, On the Ozerkho­ 101. RENz, C., and TRIKKALlNOS, J., 1948, Foram­ Khovansk beds in the central part of ihe Rus­ iniferenfunde im Oberkarbon und Perm des sian Platform. IN : Stratigraphy of the lower Agaleos-Gebirges bei Athen: Schweiz. Natur­ part of the Lower Carboniferous of the Volga­ for. Gessel. Verhand., v. 128, p. 147-148, Ural district of the Russian Platform: V.N.1. [in German]. 62 TOOMEY AND 1\ I A1\[ET- B I BLIOGRAPHY OF PALEOZO I C XONF C' SC'LI KID F ORA)IlXIFERA , ADD. 6

The writers report an Upper Carboniferous Member ) of the Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of fauna of smaller foraminifers (Bradyilla, Globi­ St. Lawrence. [The form Nodosill el/a c1arkei, orig­ valvulilla, H emigordius, Elldolhyra, G lom ospira, inall y identified by Beede in 19 10 and mentioned in C fimacammina, Agallwmmina, and Telralaxis) and the present paper, is probably not a foraminifer.] fu sulinids, and a Lower Permian fauna of both 106. SAURlN, E., 1935, Etudes geologiques sur smaller foraminifers (Colalliel/a, Padallgia, Pachy­ l'Indochine du Sud-Est (Sud Annam-Cochin­ p"'oia, and Hemigordius) and fusulinids from the chine-Cambodge orittal) : Servo Geol. Indo­ rocks of the Agaleos Mountains near Athens, Greece. chine, Bull., v. 22, pt. 1, 419 p., 15 pI. , 50 text­ 102. RZEHAK, A., 1884, Palaontologische Notiz: fig. , 1 map, [in French]. Verhandl. des naturforsc henden Vereins in The writer mentions the occurrence of the BrUnn, v. 21 , p. 36, [in German]. smaller foraminifers Spiril/if/a cf. S. plallo, Troch­ A brief note mentioning the occurrence of ammilltl in certa, C limaCa l11mill(l sp. , Endoth yra sp., the smaller foraminifers Endolhyra sp., Climacam­ and Lagella sp., from the Moscovian (Pennsylvani­ milia sp., Tetrataxis sp. , and A rchaediscus sp. in an) rocks of Kratje Province, French Indo-C hina, the Lower Carboniferous (upper Visean) rocks southeast Asia. (Kohlenkalk ) of Krakau, Poland . 107. SHRUBSOLE, G. W. , 1885, On the occurrence 103. SADA, K., 1964, Carboniferous and Lower of Caicisphaera (Williamson) in the Moun­ Permian fusulines of the Atetsu Limestone in tain Limestone of the Eglwyseg rocks, near west Japan: Hiroshima Univ., Jour. Sci ., ser. Llangollen: C hester Soc. Nat. Sci., Lit., and C, v. 4, no. 3, p. 225-269, pI. 21-28, 23 tables. Art, Proc., v. 3, p. 106-110. Primarily a paper on the fusulinid micro­ The writer discusses the origin and affinity fauna of the Carboniferous and Permian rocks of of the problemati c form Calcisphaera that he found the Atetsu Limestone of western Japan. One small­ in the Lower Carboniferous Mountain Limestones er foraminifer identified as QlIasielldothyra sp. , of north Wa les. He attempts to refute the argu­ from the Lower Pennsylvani an Kodani F ormation, ments expressed by Williamson who regarded these is illustrated by thin-section photomicrographs on small spherical bodies as radiolarians. Quite pro­ plate 21 . [The genus Quasielldolhyra Rauser­ phetica ll y the writer notes: "that among the species Chernoussova is restricted to rocks of Upper De­ of Calcispiwera which he has described [William­ vonian-Lower Carboniferous age. The Japanese son], future research will show that there are in­ form noted above appears to be misidentified; most cluded both Foraminifera and Radiolaria." [The likely, it is a random section through an Elldolllyra] . exact type locality of Williamson's material is un­ known, hut rock samples from the region of Mold, 104. SADA, K. , 1967, Fusulinids of the Mil/erel/a Flintshire, show that the original Calcisphaera in­ Zone of the Taishaku Limestone (Studies of clude Calcisphaera, Parathurammilla, and "Radio­ the stratigraphy and the microfossil faunas of sphaera."] the Carboniferous and Permian Taisha ku The writer also notes the occurrence of the Limestone in west Japan, No. 1) : Palaeont. foraminifer Saccammillopsis in a hi gher Mountain Soc. Japan, T rans. Proc., n. s., No. 67, p. 139- Limestone horizon at Minera, north Wales. 147, pI. 13-14, 4 tables. From the Lower Pennsylvanian Mil/erel/a 108. SOLOVIEVA, M. N., and KRA SHEN INIKOV, V. A ., Zone of the Taishaku Limestone of western Japan, 1965, Some genera l comparisons of foramin­ the writer reports the occurrence of the smaller fo­ ife ral complexes and strati graphy of the Mid­ raminifers Endolhyra sp. , and Chemyshillef!a sp. , dle Carhoniferous of Africa and of the Rus­ illustrated by representative tbin-section photomi­ sian Platform: Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Voprosy crographs. [To the compilers' knowledge the fora­ MiIuopaleontologii, No.9, p. 3-44, 3 pI., minifer Chernyshillel/a is a characteristic Tournai­ range chart, correl. table, [in Russian]. sian genus; it is believed that reported occurrences The Um-Bogma Formation near Suez of this form in Upper Carbonife rous rocks result Egypt, formerly dated as Lower Ca rboniferou ~ from mis-identification.] (Visean) is now thought to be Middle Carbonifer­ ous Westphali an C and correlative to the Kachira 105. SANSCHAGRIN , R. , 1964, Magdalen Islands: Horizon of the Moscovian. A microfaun a of 17 Geol. Rept. 106, Provo Quebec, Canada, 58 p., smaller foraminifers, of which 6 are new, is de­ 12 pI. , 5 text-fig., 3 tables. scribed and illustrated by thin-section photomicro­ The writer reports the presence of the small­ graphs. The new forms are: Trepeilopsis m ollis, er foraminifer Nodosillel/a sp. [misidentified; prob­ Glomospiroides lIu perus, Hemigordius saidi, H. ex­ ably an earlandiid-type] in the Lower Carbonifer­ sertlls, Plectogyra ililila, and Bradyilla pOf/ikarovi. ous Upper Windsor limestones (Bassin-aux-Hultres Some fusu linids are also described and illustrated. CONTR IBUT IONS FROM: THE CUSHMAN F OUND ATION F OR F OR AMIN IFER AL RES E AR CH 63

This microfauna shows many similarities to that The writer reports the occurrence of en­ observed on the Russian Platform. crusting agglutinated and calcareous smaller fora­ minifers (Hedraites, Plummerillella?, Tuberitina, 109. SOSIPATROVA , G. P., 1967, Complexes of Fo­ Poly taxis, Tetrataxis, Ammovertella, and Minam­ raminifera from the Upper Paleozoic depos­ modytes) epizoic on algal crusts in the sponge­ its of the Spitsbergen Islands: Akad. Nauk bearing Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian) Coal City S.S.S.R. , Doklady, v. 176, no. 1, p. 182-185, Member of the Pawnee Limestone exposed in 1 text-fig., [in Russian]. Nowata County, northeastern Oklahoma. Agglutin­ Upper Paleozoic deposits crop out in a wide ated hyperamminid foraminifers are also abundant, area in the Spitsbergen Archipelago. Age determi­ although no fusulinids and only rare calcareous nations have been based upon foraminiferal assem­ vagile smaller foraminifers are present within the blages, both fusulinids and smaller foraminifers. sponge horizon. Thirteen foraminiferal complexes (all previously described taxa) have been identified and used in the 113 . TURYK , O. S., 1966, The distribution of Fo­ biostratigraphic correlation of numerous measured raminifera in the Carboniferous deposits of sections. The foraminiferal microfaunas show sim­ Kharkov test hole: Mezhvedom. Respublick. ilarities with those described from the Ural Moun­ Nauchn. Sbornik, Izdatel. L'vov. Univ., Pale­ ta ins and the Russian Platform. on!. Sbornik No.3, vyp. vtoroj, p. 14-18, 6 pI., [in Russian with English summary]. 110. TCHERBACHOV, O. A., GARAN, I. M., POSTOI­ An assemblage of Middle Carboniferous ALKO, M. V ., BURYLOVA, R. V., VOSHAKIN, smaller foraminifers and fu sulinids from the M. A., and PIROZKHOVA, Z. A., 1964, On the Kharkov test hole, U.S.S.R., range in age from stratigraphy of the Tournaisian and Visean C14 -Ca2 . All of the taxa have been previously de­ boundary in the middle Urals (recent data on scribed and are illus,rated by thin-section photo­ the profile along the railway between the low­ micrographs. It is thought that this interval cor­ er and upper Gubakha) : Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., relates with the established foraminiferal assem­ Doklady, v. 158, no. I, p. 112-115, 1 text-fig., blages of the Bashkirian Stage of the western part [in Russian]. of the Donets Basin and of the Moscovian Stage of The writers present an accurate listing of the the Donbass and the Russian Platform. occurrences of previously described smaller fora­ 114. WILSON , J. L. , 1967, Cyclic and reciprocal mi nifers, corals, brachiopods, and spores encoun­ sedimentation in Virgilian strata of southern Ie red in the Lower Carboniferous passage beds of New Mexico: Geol. Soc. America, Bull., v. the Kizel and Kosva Formations, middle Urals, 78, no. 7, p. 805-818, 4 pI. , 4 text-fig. U.S.S.R. The lower Visean interval, previously The writer briefly notes the presence of cal­ Lhought to be restricted to the Kizel region, is now careous encrusting (Tuberitilla sp.) and vagile recognized within the Gubakha region. The lower­ smaller foraminifers in the Upper Pennsylvanian most Visean beds are characterized by the appear­ (Virgilian) cyclic carbonates of the Holder Forma­ ance of Haplophragm ella sp., Globoelldothyra sp., tion exposed in Beeman Canyon, Sacramento Daill ella chomatica, and D . elegalltula. Mountains, southern New Mexico. I I I. TOMLINSON, C. W., 1929, The Pennsylvanian 115. WOSZCZYNSKA, S. , 1967, Foraminifers of the System in the Ardmore Basin: Oklahoma Lower Carboniferous from Walbrzych and Geol. Survey, Bull. 46, 79 p., 20 pI., 3 from certain areas of Sowie Mountains: Po­ text-fig. land Insty!. Geol., Kwar!. Geol., v. 11 , no. 1, The writer presents an overall discussion of p. 76-90, 1 pI., 1 text-fig., [in Polish with Lhe Pennsylvanian rocks of the Ardmore Basin of English and Russian summaries]. south-central Oklahoma. Lists of occurrences of Fourteen previously described species of mailer foraminifers in some of the Pennsylvanian smaller foraminifers are reported from the Lower formations from this region are given in the Ap­ Carboniferous (upper Visean) marine deposits at pendix (p. 70-72). All of the foraminifers have Walbrzych and at certain locations in the Sowie been previously described. Mountains (Sokolec, Jugow, and Kamionki) of Poland. All of the foraminifers are described and 112. TOOMEY, D. F., 1967, Calcispongea (Sphinc­ illustrated by representative whole-specimen line tozoa) from the Pennsylvanian (Desmoin­ drawings. esian) Pawnee Limestone of northeastern Oklahoma (Abstract): Geol. Soc. America, 116. ZIEGLER, J. H., IN: HORSTIG, G., and VOGL ER, Program Annual Meeting, New Orleans, H., 1956, Die Alterstellung der Dolomite von Louisiana, p. 222-223. Hof an der Saale: Neues Jahrb. f. Geol. u. 64 TOOMEY AND MAMET-BIBLlOGRAPHY OF PALEOZOIC NONFUSULINID FORAMINIFERA. ADD. 6

PaHion!., Monatshefte B, No. 90, p. 471-488, D EVONIAN 4 text-fig., [in German]. I, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 18, 23 , The writers report the occurrence of the fol­ 26, 27, 47, 53, 54, 62, 68, 70, 73, 74, 75, lowing smaller foraminifers in the Lower Carbonif­ 83, 89, 93, 98 erous Hof Dolomite, Eastern Germany: Plectogyra sp., [probably Endothyra], Nummulostegina schu­ MISSISSIPPIAN 2, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, berti Lange [probably EostaUe/la], Placopsilina cis­ 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, coensis Cushman and Waters, Lagena plummerae 42, 43, 44, 46, 47, 49, 51, 53, 54, 56, 58, Harlton [probably mis-identified; Lagena ranges 60, 62, 63, 64, 66, 67, 68 , 69, 70, 73 , 74, from Mesozoic to Recent], Globivalvulina sp., Den­ 75, 76, 78, 79 , 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, talina sp. [probably mis-identified; usually regarded 89, 90, 91, 93, 95, 96, 97, 98, 100, 102, as a Permian form], and Psammosphaera sp. 105 , 107, 110, 115, 116

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CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE CUSHMAN FOUNDATION FOR FORAMINIFERAL RESEARCH VOLUM E XX, PART 2, APRIL, 1969 364. GLOBOCASSIDULlNA NIPPONENSIS NEW NAME FOR CASSIDULlNA ORIENTALE CUSHMAN, 1925, PREOCCUPIED JAMES V. EADE N. Z. Oceanographic Institute, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Wellington

ABS TRACT SYSTEMATICS Cllssiclulina orientale Cushman, 1925. from a byssal depths off J apan. is a sel)ar ale spec ies and belongs to a Family CASSlDULINlDAE tl iff el'ent genus from Cassiclulina orie nhtlis Cushman , 1922, Genus Globocassidulina Voloshinova, 1960 ( rom the co n tine ntal shel f off New Zealand and Chile ; it is he re given t he new name Globocassidulina niPllonensis. Globocassidulina nipponensis new name Plate 13, fi gures 1-4 INTRODUCTION Cassidulina orientale CUSHMAN , 1925, p. 37, pI. 7, In 1922 C ushman proposed the name Cassidul­ figs. 6a-c. ina orientalis n. sp. for specimens from 110 meters Cassidulina orientale ASANO and NAKAMURA , 1937, depth off Poor Knights Islands, New Zealand, pre­ p. 147, pI. 14, fi gs. 6a-c, text figs. 8a-b. viously recorded as the Atlantic species Cassidulina Cassidulina orientale MATSUNA GA, 1963 , pI. 48, figs . bradyi Norman (Cushman, 1919). He noted that 7a-b. the specimen figured by Brady (1884) as C. brady; Type Description.-"Test much compressed, the in the Challenge r Reports, pl ate 54, figure 10 (from periphery rounded; usually 5 or 6 pairs of chambers off West Patagonia, East Pacific ), was very si milar in the last-formed coil, tending in adult specimens 10 his New Zealand specimens. Without referring to show a slight uncoiling in latest growth; sutures to hi s 1922 species, C ushman later ( 1925) described di stinct but very sli ghtly depressed, nearly straight, Cassidulina orientale n. sp. from 3804 meters depth wall smooth finel y punctate, the periphery near the south of Japan. He considered this species to be aperture with a clear space without punctae; aper­ widespread in the Pacific and included in synonymy ture an elongate, narrow slit, parallel to the periph­ the same figured specimen of C. bradyi in the Clwl­ ery. Length, 0.4 mOl; Breadth, 0.32 mOl." lenger Reports ( plate 54, fi gure 10). Type Locality.-N ero station 1264, south of Ja­ Since then, the only references to C. orientalis pan (latitude 32' 22'N, longitude 141 ' 02'30"E), C ushman 1922 have been from the Tertiary and 3 804 meters. Rece nt of New Zealand (see Hornibrook, 1961 ; R emarks.-Four specimens, from a slide labelled Eade, 1967). Similarly restricted in its distribu­ " Recent, Japan" kindly loaned by Mr. N . de B. tion is C. orientale Cushman, 1925, which has only Hornibrook of the New Zealand Geological Survey, en recorded from the Upper Tertiary and Recent agree in all features with C ushman's type descrip­ of Japan (Asano and Nakamura, 1937; Matsunaga, tion and fi gure of C. orientale. Additional features 1963). However, in a study of New Zealand inter­ to those described by Cushman include wall struc­ tidal forms Hedley et al. (1967) include C. orien­ ture, apertural shapes in the juvenile stage and in­ lale in the synonymy of C. orientalis. ternal apertural structure. During a study of Recent New Zealand species of The wall structure of one specimen, examined the families Islandiellidae and Cassidulinidae (Eade, crushed under polarized light, is clearly granular. 1967), C. orientalis was found to be restricted to The other three, examined whole, also appear to the continental shelf off New Zealand between lati­ be granular. rudes 32' 30'5 and 50' 30'S. It also occurs off Chile The aperture in the juvenile is trifid consisting of 3 1 latitude 47 ' 48'S. C. orientale occurs in Recent a slit-like opening extending from the basal margin >ed iments at abyssal depths off eastern and south­ into the apertural face with similar slits on either ~m Japan. It is a separate species and belongs to a side of this along the basal margin. The peripheral different genus from C. orientalis. end of the basal-margin slit is present as a slight in­ The correct Latin form for the trivial name dentation which disappears in the adult. The areal - oriental" to agree with the feminine generic end- portion of the aperture is moderately short in the g ina is orientalis and not orientale (International juvenile but only just discernible in the adult. The Code of Zoological Nomenclature, 1961 , Example umbilical end of the basal-margin slit forms most _-\rI. 30a, ii). Cassidulina orientale is therefore a of the aperture in both juvenile and adult. JUIl ior homonym of Cassidulina orientalis and re­ The chamber wall along the upper part of the ",u ires a new name. basal-margin slit is folded into the test to form a 66 EADE-NEW NAME FOR CASSIDULINA ORmNTALE C USHMAN large lip. The tooth-plate, formed by an infolding CUSHMAN, J. A., 1919, Recent Foraminifera from of the peripheral end of the aperture, is attached off New Zealand: Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus. 56, to this lip and, at its base, to the penultimate cham­ pp. 593-640, pis. 74, 75. ber wall near the septal foramen. ---, 1922, The Foraminifera of the Atlantic G. nippollellsis is similar to species placed in Cas­ Ocean. Part III - Textulariidae: Bull. U. S. sidulinoides Cushman, 1927 and Evo/vocassidu/ina Natl. Mus., vol. 104, no. 3, pp. 1-149. Eade, 1967, in its tendency to uncoil in the adult stage. However, it differs from the former in being ---, 1925, New Species of Cassidu/illa from the granular instead of radial and from the latter in Pacific : Contr. Cushman Lab. Foram. Res., possessing an internal tooth-plate instead of an ex­ vol. I, no. 2, pp. 36-38, pI. 7. ternal one. G. nipponellsis possesses the three main EADE, J. V., 1967, New Zealand Recent Foraminif­ characteristics of the genus G /obocassidlllilla : a era of the families Islandiellidae and Cassidul­ globular non-keeled test, a trifid aperture, and an inidae : N. Z. Journ. Mar. Freshwater Res., internal tooth-plate attached to the penultimate I (4) : 421-454. chamber wall near the septal foramen. H EDLEY, R. H ., HURDLE, C. M., and BURDETT, G. lIippoll ensis differs from other species of I. D. J., 1967, The marine fauna of New Zea­ G /obocassidll/ina in its tendency to uncoil. Evo/vo­ land: Intertidal Foraminifera of the Corallina cassidu/ina orielltalis differs from G. lIippollellsis in officilla/is zone. Bull. N. Z. Dep. Scient. Ind. having a loop-shaped aperture covered by an ex­ Res. 180 (N. Z. Oceanogr. Inst. Mem. 38) , ternal plate-like tooth and in possessing a periph­ pp. 1-86, pis. 1-12. eral keel. REFERENCES HORNIBROOK, N. DE B., 1961 , Tertiary Foraminif­ ASANO, K., and NAKAMURA, M., 1937, On Japanese era from Oamaru District (N. Z.). Part I. species of Cassidu/illa: Jap. J. Geol. Geogr., Systematics and Distribution: Paleont. Bull., vol. 14, nos. 3-4, pp. 143-153, pis. 13, 14. Wellington, vol. 34, no. I, 1-192, pis. 1-28. BRADY, H. B., 1884, Report on the Foraminifera MATS UNAGA, T., 1963, Benthonic Smaller Forami­ dredged by HMS C!wllellger during the years nifera from the oil fields of Northern Japan: 1873-1876: Rep. Scient. Res. Challenger Ex­ Scient. Rep. Tohoku Univ. Geol., vol. 35, no. ped. Zool., vol. 9, pp. 1-814, pis. 1-115. 2, pp. 67-122, pis. 24-52. L'ONTRI B UTIONS FRO:\[ TH~ C USH MA N F OUN DATI ON FOR FO R A1\ ll N I F ~RAL R ESEAR CH 67

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ABSTRACT teristics and then their maximum diameter was re­ I n m a t el'ia l (rom t he Nol'th Car ol ina contin en tal sh elf, corded. The results of these measurements are t he genu s Cariheanella d evelo ps f r om a. CibicideJij-!ik e j u venil e fo rm a nd, in t u I'll , g i ves ri se t o a p l a nol'bulin id shown in text fig. I, in which the maximum diam­ iOl'm, T hese Plunorbulint" diffel' from material f r om the eter is plotted against the number of peripheral ~ I edi te l'l ' a n ea n and from forms descl'ibed by Nyho lm (196 1) apertures. Theoretically, this plot should result in a nd Cooper (1965), It i s assu med that the g en u s Plonor­ a sigmoid curve; all specimens with no peripheral bulitm is o f POl yph y l et i c origin . apertures (Cibicides) are telescoped into the first INTRODUCTION category, resulting in a small mean for the group. Cibicides Montfort is a well-known genus with a Then there should be an even increase of diameter cosmopolitan distribution and a long geologic his­ with the addition of chambers possessing peripheral lOry, dating from the Cretaceous to the Recent. apertures. The curve should flatten out where the Throughout geologic time this genus has given ri se maximum number of chambers per whorl is reached, as each additional chamber will still in­ 10 other genera, judging from the fact that numer­ ous genera possess a Cibicides-like juvenarium. crease the diameter of the specimen but also cover However, some of the genera which are normally up peripheral apertures of the preceding whorl. The considered to be descendants of Cibicides may be curve in text fig . I is an approximation to this sig­ regarded as merely morphological variants of cer­ moid curve. Since the sample was washed on a lain species of Cibicides, as was particularly well screen of 140," mesh diameter, a portion of the illustrated by Nyholm (1961). In the light of these "Cibicides" population was eliminated. Important seemingly conflicting concepts, it appeared oppor­ as an argument for the lineage problem is the fact tune to demonstrate the developmental sequence­ that seemingly all "Cibicides" make their transition which by deduction may be considered evolution­ into C. po/ys/oma, that there are none whose max­ ary-of three genera of the foraminiferal family imum diameter exceeds that of the following phase Cibicididae and to compare the results with previ­ of C. polys/oma. Besides this evidence based on a ous studies on members of the same group. series of separate specimens, other evidence was furnished by the dissection of large specimens of OBSERVATIONS During a survey of the foraminiferal fauna of the continental shelf of North Carolina Caribeallella 6 polystoma Bermudez was found together with a U1 5 _.--. small unidentified species of Cibicides. C. poly­ w IX tions and by the presence of supplementary aper­ ~ 4 0--.--...... w Q. ru res on the peripheral backward margin of each --.--...... -' small size, imperforate wall on the involute side

C. polystoma. Successive removal of chambers re­ vealed always the same developmental sequence, with a juvenile portion identical to the small "Cibi­ cides." A few stages of this developmental sequence ~ are shown in figs. I to 7 on plate 14. ~n (@ n Very large specimens of C. polystoma, in addi­ tion to the supplementary apertures on the evolute '[,~j side and on the periphery, develop supplementary @] apertures also on the involute side of the test ( pl ate 14, fi gs. 8-9) . The existence of this fourth aperture Y;;0 '~~J has not been noted either in the origi nal descrip­ 3 LJ 4 tion by Bermudez (1952) or in the generic diag­ nosis by Loeblich and Tappan (1964). Specimens TEXT FIGURES 2 - 4 of this type are rare; in the one sample that was Fig. 2. Section of C. polystoma, showing near­ counted out completely onl y 5% of the C. poly­ ly complete whorl of chambers with peripheral apertures; X 50. stoma population was composed of these specimens. Fig. 3. Section of "P. m editerrallellsis" frolll A small number of C. polys/om a specimens con­ the North Carolina shelf, showing intermediate tinue thei r development at a late stage by adding Ca ribea ll el/a stage; X 50. chambers that no longer fo llow the expanding series Fig. 4. Section of P. m editerrallellsis from of the coil (plate 15, figs. 1-3). This development Spain, showing no Caribea ll el/a stage; X 25. leads to specimens which are externally similar to Piall orblililla m editerrall ellsis d'Orbigny. Thin-sec­ tom vegetation was present in the North Carolina tions and observations in clarifying liquids of these sampling area or not (no ev idence of it was brought pl anorbulinids showed that they always incorpo­ up by the sampling mechanism ). rated about one whorl of regularly added chambers that possess the peripheral apertures of the inter­ DISCUSSION mediate Caribeanel/a stage (text fi gs . 2-3). Numer­ It was shown by Nyholm ( 196 1) that the specie:; ous specimens of P. m editerrallellsis from the Med­ Cibicides lobatlillis exhibited such a range of mor­ iterranean coast of NE Spain (Cadaquez) were ex­ phological va riation that it encompassed the con­ amined for comparison. These showed a Cibicides­ cept of several genera of the fa mil y Cibicididae, like early stage, followed immediately by the irreg­ e.g., Dyocibicides, A IIl1l1locibicides, Cyc/ocibicides, ularly added Piallorblililla-type chambers (text fi g. Stichocibicides, R ectocibicides, and Piallorblililla. 4). An additional dissimilarity between the two Cooper (1965) also reported on morphological va­ types of Piall orblililla is the development of the riants of Cibicides lobatllills, including a form periphery, which is always sharply angled in the which is Planorblilil/a-like. LeCalvez (1938), how­ Mediterranean specimens, of which about 200 were ever, observed that in laboratory cultures of P. examined. The nearly 80 specimens examined from mediterral/el/sis only planorbulinids were produced the North Carolina area possessed without excep­ during the life-cycles of successive sexual and asex­ tion a rounded periphery. But this dissimilarity ual ge nerations, with no indication of an interven­ may very well be accidental, depending on whether ing Caribeal/el/a-like form. In the material of this the specimens had been li vi ng attached to flat sub­ study, the regul arity with which the genus Carib/'­ stratum or not. The Mediterranean m aterial was al/el/a develops from its embryonic Cibicides stage collected from an area with abundant vegetation and the subsequent formation of Piallorblililla make (Posidollia), whereas it is not known whether bot- it unlikely that this development can be equated

EXPLANATION OF PLATE 14 FIGS. PAGE 1. Cibicides-like juvenile, imperforate involute side; X 200...... 68 2. Cibicides-like juvenile, beginning of Caribeal/ el/a phase indicated by perforations in wall of ultimate chamber; X 200...... 6 3-4. Intermediate growth stages; X 150. 4b, detail of imperforate juvenile and perforate adult wa ll type; X 570...... 6 5-7. Typical adult stages; X 100. 6b, detail of pe ripheral aperture; X 340...... 6 8-9 . Adult stages wi th supplementary apertures on involute side; X 100. 9b, detai l of supple- mentary aperture; X 210...... 68 10. Peripheral view of adult stage. lOb, X 100. lOa, detail of peripheral aperture; X 420. . 68 11-12. Evolute side of adult stages; X 100. 12b, detail of primary and supplementary apertures; X 200...... 68 CONTRIB. C USHMAN FOUND. FORAM. RESEARCH, VOL. 20 PLATE 15

Schnitker: Cibicid es, Caribeanella and Plan orbulina CONTRIB. CUSHMAN FOUND. FORAM. RESEARCH, VOL. 20 PLATE 14

Schnitker: Cibicides, Caribeanella and Planorbttlina CONTRIB UTiONS FROM THE C USHMAN FOUN DATION FOR F ORAl\I1 N IFERAL RESEARCH 69 with the type of variation observed by Nyholm tive environments. Even though this circumstantial and Cooper. evidence appears to be very strong, it seems to be It appears therefore that three types of Plall or­ best to await detai led biological studies before def­ bulil/a exist at present: I) Plall orbulilla s.s., with inite judgment is made. P. m editerral/el/ sis d'Orbigny as type, 2) Plallor­ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS bulilla in the sense of Nyholm and Cooper, which Samples from the North Carolina continental seems to be a variant of Cibicides lobatulus (Walk­ shelf were obtained through the use of the RjV er and Jacobs) , and 3) Plal/orbulil/a of this study, EASTWARD in the Cooperative Oceanographic a descendant of C. polystoma Bermudez. Program of the Duke University Marine Labora­ It may be significant that these thre ~ types of tory. This program is supported through NSF Pial/orbulina are widely separated geographicall y. Grant G-17669 to Duke University. The permis­ The studies of Nyholm and Cooper are based o n sion of the Societe Nationale des Petroles d'Aqui­ material from hi gh northern latitudes (Scandinavia taine to use their Scanning Electron Microscope is and the NW coast of North America), LeCalvez's sincerely appreciated. material came from the Mediterranean, and the REFERENCES material containing the Caribeallella sequence from BERMUDEZ , P. 1., 1952, ESl udio sistematico de los the shelf of North Carolina. Also, C. polystoma foraminiferos rotaliformes: Venezuela Minist. and its associated Plall orbulilla were found only Minas & Hidrocarb., Bull. Geol., v. 2, no. 4, south of Cape Hatteras, a region which is influ­ p. 1-23 0, pI. 1-35. enced by the warm Gulf Stream water, whereas the few specimens of Plal/orbulil/a which were found COOPER, S. C., 1965, A new morphologic vari ation north of Cape Hatteras were forms with a sharply of the foraminifer Cibicides lobatlllus: Contri­ angul ar periphery and did not possess the Caribe­ butions from the Cushman Foundation for allella stage in their early portions. Whether they Foraminiferal Research, v. 16, pI. 4, p. 137- we re of the Mediterranean type or of the type of 140, pI. 21 , 22. Nyhol m and Cooper cannot be said . LECA LV EZ, J EAN, 193 8, Recherches sur les foramin­ iferes - I. Developpement et repro:luction : The existence of these three types of Plal/ orbul­ Archives Zoo I. Exper. et Generale, v. 80, pI. ilia poses a taxonomic problem. If they are rea ll y biologicall y different, they should be named ac­ 3, p. 163-333, pI. 2-7. ordingly. The Mediterranean type should contin­ LOEB LtCH, A. R., and TAPPAN , HELEN, 1964, Pro­ ue to ca rry the name Plallorbulilla m editerral/ellsis, tista 2, Sarcodina, chiefly "Thecamoebians" . yholm's and Cooper's type should be called and Foraminiferida, il/: Treatise on inverte­ Cibicides loba/ulus, and the North Carolina form brate Paleontology, Moore, R. C., Ed., Geol. should be placed in synonymy with Caribeall ella Soc. America and U niv. Kansas Press, p. 1-900. polystoma. Of the three forms, only the Mediter­ NYHOLM, K. G., 1961 , Morphogenesis and biology ranean type has been investigated sufficiently; the of Cibicides lobatulus: Zoologiska Bidrag fran other two are based on associations in their respec- Uppsala, Bd. 33 , p. 157-196, pI. 1-5.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE 15 FIGS. PAG E I. C. polystoma with one supplementary chamber; X 100. 68 Earl y stage of "P. mediterral1 el1sis;" X 100...... 68 _. Small "P. m editerral1 el1sis" with Caribeallella-stage still visible; X75...... 68 "P. m editerral/el/sis" typical for the North Carolina shelf, note rounded periphery; X 60 . . 68 , P. m editerral/el/sis from Spain. Sa, x 45. 5b, detail showing raised sutures; X 107...... 68 P. m editerral/el/sis from Spain, note subrounded periphery. 6a, X 107. 6b; X 80...... 68 P. m editerrallell sis from Spain, note angular periphery; X47 ...... 68 70 JENKINS-CORRECTION

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An error in text-fig. 3 in the recent paper by D. distance slightly less than the rightmost half of the Graham Jenkins, entitled "Acceleration of the evo­ terminal "s" in bisphericus. lutionary rate in the Orbulina lineage" (paper no. P. giomerosa curva-the range extends only ~he 353, Volume XIX, Part 4, October, 1968) , has width of the right arm of the "a" in curva. been called to the editor's attention. The extremely P. giomerosa giomerosa-the range extends from fine lines indicating the stratigraphic range of cer­ the rightmost tip of the right arm of the "a" in tain species were lost during the printing process, giomerosa to the right tip of the left arm of the and the loss was not detected prior to completion same letter. of the issue. The printer's plate for the figure has been altered, and it is here reprinted (page 71) . Orbulina universa-the range extends from the For further clarification, the following verbal de­ rightmost tip of the right arm of the letter "a" in scription of the ranges (in reference to the species universa to a point slightly less than half the width names appearing on the figure itself), is given: of the same letter along its base. MIDHIRST NO.1 WELL TARANAKI MUDDY CREEK SECTION G. woodi connecta-the range extends only the G. tri/obus bisphericus-the range extends over a width of the right arm of the "a" in connecta. ( "Or-\ TRI BUTIONS F R OM TH E CUS H I\'l A~ FO U NDAT I O~ FOR FORAMIN IFERAL RES EARCH 7 1

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Below are given some of the more recent works BOLTOVSKOY, ESTEBAN. Hidrologia de las agua on the Foraminifera that have come to hand . superficiales en la parte occidental del Atlan tico Sur.-Rev. Museo Arge ntino Ciencia BARB IER I, F., and MEDIOLl, F. Osservazioni di del­ Nat. "Bern ardino Rivadavia," Hid robiol. , v. _ togli o su alcuni gusci di "Orbulina" del Neo­ No.6, 1968, p. 199-224, 2 text figs ., tables I gene dell'ltalia settentrionale allo "Scanning 2.-Six water masses recognized off coasta E lectron M icroscope."-"L' Ateneo Parmense," Argentina by means of Foraminifera biolo. Acta Naturali, v. 4, fasc. I, 1968, p. 1-20, pis. ical indicators are pl otted on maps. 1-7 .-Photomicrographs of wall structure. BRAZHNtKOVA, N . E., VAKARCHUK , G. I. , VDOV E 'KO BARTLETT, GRANT A. Mid-Tertiary stratigraphy M. V., VINNICHENKO, L. V., KARPOVA, M. A . of the continental slope off Nova Scotia.­ KOLOMI ET H, J A. T. , POTtEVSKAJA, P. D ., Ros. Maritime Sediments, v. 4, No. I, April 1968, TOVTHEVA , L. F., and SH EVCHENKO, G . D p. 22-31, pis. 1-3 , text figs. I, 2 (map, correl. Mikrofaunisticheskie Markirujuschchi e Goriz chart) .- Oligocene and Miocene sed iments, onty Kamennougol'nyk h i Permskikh Otloz· dated by planktonics, in cores and dredge henij Dneprovsko-Donethskoj Vpadiny.-Kie\ hauls. Twenty-six species listed and illustrated. 1967, 224 p., 59 pis. (systematic descriptiOn! Planktonic Foramini fera-new dimensions with p. 139-18 1) .-Eighteen species ( 15 new ) . : the Scanning Electron Microscope.-Canad ian subspecies (all new), 3 varieties (2 new), and Jour. Earth Sci., v. 5, 1968, p. 231-233 , pis. 1- 17 formae from the Carboniferous and Permian. 6.-Views of wall surface, pores, spines. BuZAs, M. A., and G IBSON , THOMAS G . Spec ;«=:! diversity: Benthonic Foraminifera in westeTll BASSOV, V. A. 0 soslave Foraminifer v Volzh­ North Atlantic.-Science, v. 163, No. 386_ skikh i Berriasskikh Otlozhenijakh Severa Si­ Jan. 3, 1969, p. 72-75, text figs. I, 2 (map. biri i Arkticheskikh Ostrovov, ;11 Mezozoiskie graphs) . Morskie Fauny Severa i D al'nego Vostoka SSSR i ikh stratigraficheskoe znachenie.­ CAT!, FRANCO, COLA LONGO , MARIA LUISA , C RES­ Akad. Nauk SSS R, Sibirskoe Otdel., Trudy CENT!, UBERTO, D'ONOFRIO, SARA , FOLLAIXH. Instit. Geol. i Geofiz., vyp. 48, 1968, p. 108- UMBERTO, PIRI NI RADRIZZANI, CAM ILLA, P<>­ 141 , pis. 20-23, tables I, 2 (range chart, correl. MESANO C HERCHI , ANTONI ETTA, SALVATORI" L chart).-Twelve species, II new, from the GIANFRANCO, SARTON I, SAMUELE, PREM OU Volgian and Berriassian. Bojarkaella gen. nov. SILVA , ISABELLA, WEZEL, CARLO FORESE and (type species B. firma sp. nov.) erected in the BERTOLINO , DI VERA , BIZON , GERMA INE, BoLli, Nodosariidae. H ANS M ., BORSETT! CATI, ANNA MA RL.... D ONDI, LUCIANO, FEINBERG, H ENRY, J EN KI" BELFORD, D . J. Paleocene planktonic Foraminif­ D. GRAHAM, P ERCONIG , ENR ICO, SAM PO, MAR· era from Papua and New G uinea.-Australi a 10, and SPROVIER I, RODOLFO. Biostrati grafta Bureau Min. Res., Geol., and Geophysics, Pa­ del Neogene Mediterraneo basata sui Forami­ laeont. Papers, 1966, Bull. 92, 1967, p. 1-33 , ni feri pianctonici.-Boli. Soc. Geol. Ital. , , _ pis. 1-4, text figs. 1-4 ( maps, columnar section, 87, 1968, p. 491-503, tables 1, 2 (correL check list).-Thirteen species and 1 subspe­ charts).-For the Mediterranean, one Mioce ~ cies, none new, indicating upper Paleocene. zonation a nd 3 Pliocene zonations and com­ Additional Miocene and Pli ocene pl anktonic Fo­ parisons wi th zonati ons for New Zealand, the raminifera from Papua and New Guinea.­ Caribbean, and Java. Australia Bureau Min. Res., Geol., and Geo­ CHlJ I, MANZO. Foraminiferal faunules from the physics, Palaeont. Papers, 1966, Bull. 92,1967, upper part of Osaka group in the deep borin. p. 35-48, pI. 5.-Three more species. (OD-I ), Osaka City (in Japanese with En!!­ li sh abstract) .-Bull. Osaka Mus. Nat. Hi . BHALLA, S. N. Foramini fera from the type Rag­ No. 21 , March 1968, p. 55-61 , pi s. 2, 3, te havapuram Shales, East Coast Gondwanas, figs. 1-3 (columnar section, graphs), tables L India.-Micropaleontology, v. IS, No. I , Jan. 2.-lllustrations of Pleistocene Foraminifera. 1969, p. 61 -84, pis. I, 2, text figs. 1-9 (maps, drawings), table I (check list) .-Fifteen are­ CHIJ I, MANZO, and LOPEZ, SILV IO M. Regio naceous species from the Lower Cretaceous. foraminiferal assemblages in Tanabe Bay, , . CONTRIBUT IONS FRO:\ [ THE CCSHMAN F OUNDATION F OR FORAi'.UNJFERAL RES EARCH 73

Peninsula, central Japan.-Publ. Seto Marine No. 1, 1968, p. 1-8, pis. I, 2, text figs . 1-3.­ Bi oI. Lab., v. 16, No. 2, Sept. 1968, p. 85- 125, In the Lower Cretaceous TO ll asia gen. nov. pi s. 6-1 5, text figs. 1-8 (maps, graphs) , tables (type species T. evoluta sp. nov.) possi bly de­ 1-3.-Based on 14 samples between 7 and 38 rived from Melathrokerioll . meters. Quantitati ve records of over 250 spe­ cies, none new, many illustrated. GUVENC, T UNCE R. A propos de la structure de la paroi des Nojosariida et description d'un nouv­ CiM ERMAN , FRANC . The genus Pavoll itilla Schu­ eau genre A lall yall a et de quelques nouve lles bert (Foraminiferida) and its systemati c posi­ especes du Permien de Turquie.- Bull. Min. tion.-Micropaleon:ology, v. 15 , No. 1, Jan. Res. Ex plor. Instit. Turkey, Foreign Ed., No. 1969, p. 111 - 11 5, pI. I, text fig . I ( map) .­ 69, Oct. 1967, p. 34-43, pI. I.-Four new Per­ Examinati on of sufficient materi al shows the mian nodosarid species, one in the new genus in iti al stages are biseri al, not triserial, hence A lall yana (type species A. reicheli n. sp.). the genus belongs in the Textulariidae. HAGN, HERBE RT. Haddoll ia heissigi n. sp., ein be­ CONK IN, JAMES E. , and CONKIN, BARBARA M. A merkenswerter Sandschaler (Foram.) aus dem revision of some U pper Devoni an Foramini f­ Obereoziin der Bayerischen Kalkalpen.-Mitt. era from western Australia .- Palaeontology, Bayer. Staatssa mml. Paliiont. hi st. Geol. , v. II , pt. 4, Nov. 1968, p. 601-609, pi s. 11 4- MUnchen, Band 8, Dec. 15, 1968, p. 3-50, pis. 117, text fig. 1 (drawings) .- Re-description 1-3, text fi gs. 1-8 (map, outcrop drawi ng, and re-illustration of 8 species, 5 being pl aced drawings) .- G iga ntic arenaceous encrusting in different genera. species in a typical reefal association in the upper Eocene. ER ICSON, D AV ID B., and WOLLI N, GOESTA. Pleis­ tocene cl imates and chronology in deep-sea HOF KER, J. SEN. Studies of Foraminifera. Part I , sediments.--Science, v. 162, No. 3859, Dec. General Problems.-Pu bl. Natuurhist. Ge­ 13, 1968, p. 1227- 1234, text fi gs . 1-7 (map, nootschap in Limburg, Reeks XVIII, Aft. I, 2, graphs) .--Study based on 10 cores from the 1968, p. 1-135, pi s. 1-24, text figs. 1-15 Atlantic and Caribbean. Through correlation (graphs, drawings) .- It is inappropriate to of variation in abundance of the Globorotalia make generic separations where the onl y dif­ m ellardii complex, of changes in coiling direc­ ference is that the wall structure changes from tion of G. trullcatulilloides, of paleontological granular to radial. Among pl anktonics, such boundaries, and of paleomagnetic st ratigraph y, fo rms as Globigerapsis, Globigerillatheka, and a continuous time scale is set up indicating Porticulasphaera are not true genera, but de­ that the Pleistocene lasted about 2 million years. velopmental stages of a species. FOLDVARI, A., and SZABO-SOMOG YVAR I, K. Studies HUANG, T UN YOW. Small er Foraminifera from on the "Schlier" Formation. IV. Foraminiferal Mi ya ko-jima, Ryukyu.--Sci. Repts. Tohoku biofacies zones of the "Schlier" in North H un­ Uni v., Sendai, 2nd Ser. (Geol. ), v. 40, No. I , ga ry.- Acta Geologica, Acad. Sci. Hungaricae, Aug. 3 1, 1968, p. 47-63, pis. 10-13 , text figs . tom. 12, fasc. 1-4, 1968, p. 193 -1 97, maps 1-4, 1-3 (map, graphs), table I.- List and illustra­ text fig. 1 (graph ), table l.-Gl obigerilla con­ tions of 128 species from the Pliocene Shima­ te nt mapped in Chatti an and Helvetian. jiri Formation. FV RS EN KO, A. V., and FURSENKO, K. B. Ekolog­ J EN KJ NS, D. GRA HAM. Planktonic Foraminiferida icheskie Nablj udenija noj Foraminiferami as indicators of New Zealand Tertiary paleo­ Laguny Busse (0. Sakhalin) .- Doklady Akad. temperatures.- Tuatara, v. 16, No. I, April Nauk SSS R, tom 180, No. 5, 1968, p. 123 1- 1968, p. 32-37, text fi g. I (graph) .- Presence 1234, text fig . I (di agram) .-Foramini fe ra or absence of keeled Globorotalia and coiling under lagoonal conditions. directi on of Globigerina pachyderma are used to interpret temperatures in the Tertiary. G IBSON , T HOMAS G ., HAZEL, JOSE PH E., and MELLO, JAMES F . Fossi liferous rocks from KANOMATA, N OBUO, and MIYAWAKI , AKIRA. On submarine canyons off the northeastern United the Fusulinids at Kami yatsuse Di strict in States.-U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 600- Kesennuma City, M iyagi Prefecture, North­ D, 1968, p. 222-230, text fi g. I ( map), tables east Japan.- Jour. College Arts Sci. Chiba I, 2.-Foraminife ra and Ostracoda listed from Univ., v. 5, No. 1, Nov. 1967, p. 159-1 65, pI. 74 sa mples, indicating ages from Late Creta­ I, text fi gs. I, 2 (maps), tables 1-7.-Eight ceous to Pleistocene. species, 2 new. GO RBACHIK, T. N. Homeomorphism in fora min­ KASIMOVA, G. K. 0 Spirillinidakh Jurskikh Otloz­ ifers.-Paleont. Zhurnal (translation), v. 2, henij Azerbaidzhana.- Izvest. Akad. Nauk 74 TODD-REC E NT LITERATUHE ON 'l.' HI<~ FORAMJNIFERA

Azerbaidzh. SSR, ser. nauk 0 zemle, 1968, No. MARGEREL, J EAN-PI ERRE . Les Foraminiferes du 3, p. 27-34, 1 pl.-Six Jurassic spirillinids, Redonien. Systematique, Repartition stratig­ 2 new. raphique, Paleoecologie. Tomes I, II.-Im­ premerie Faculte des Sci., Nantes, 1968, 207 LEWIS, K. B., and JENKINS, CHRISTINE. Geograph­ p., 44 pis., 10 tables, 41 text figs.-IIIustrated ical variation of Nonionellilla flemingi.-Mi­ systematic catalog includes 256 species and va­ cropaleontology, v. 15, No. I, Jan. 1969, p. 1- rieties, 34 species and 2 varieties new and 3 12, pI. I, text figs. 1-9 (graphs), tables 1,2.­ given new names. Forty-one are indeterminate. The species is found from north of New Zea­ Age is Pliocene. land south to the Subantarctic Islands. Those from the coldest environments are the largest MORIKAWA, ROKURO. The Upper Permian Schwag­ and longest, have more chambers, and are erininae of Japan.-Sci. Repts. Saitama Univ., planispiral; those from the warmest environ­ ser. B (BioI. and Earth Sci.), v. 5, No.2, 1968, ments are the smallest and are trochospiral. p. 155-160, pis. 16, 17, table 1. Tertiary and Quaternary temperature fluctua­ tions can be elucidated by size measurements. MURRAY, JOHN W. Living foraminifers of lagoons and estuaries.-Micropaleontology, v. 14, No. LLOYD, A. R. Foraminifera from HBR Wreck Is­ 4, Oct. 1968, p. 435-455, text figs. 1-20 (map, land No. I well and Heron Island bore, graphs), tables 1-12.-Study of Buzzards Bay Queensland: their taxonomy and stratigraphic and comparison with faunas of hypersaline, significance. I-Lituolacea and Miliolacea.­ normal, and brackish areas. Australia Bureau M in. Res., Geol., and Geo­ P ERCON IG , ENRICO. Sobre la proposicion del nuevo physics, Palaeont. Papers, 1966, Bull. 92, 1967, p. 69-113, pis. 9-15, text fig. I (map), table I termino estratigrafico "Andaluciense" para in­ distrib. chart) .-Twenty-six species from the dicar la fase terminal del Mioceno de facies Miocene parts of the wells. marina.-Notas y Comns. Inst. Geol. y Minero Espana, No. 91, Ano 1966, p. 13-40, text figs. LUTZE, GERHARD F. Okoanalyse der Mikrofauna 1, 2 (maps), table of occurrence and abun­ des Aptium von Sarstedt bei Hannover.- Beih. dance.-Abundance of Foraminifera indicated Ber. Naturh. Ges., Band 5, Keller-Festschrift, in Tortonian, Andalusian, and lower Pliocene Hannover, 1968, p. 427-443, text figs. 1-4 (cor­ in western Andalusia. reI. chart, range chart, graphs), table 1.­ Quantitative analysis of Foraminifera in an PESSAGNO, EMILE A., JR. , and BROWN , WALTER R. upper Aptian section. The microreticulation and sieve plates of Racemiguembelilla /ructicosa (Egger) .-Mi­ Jahresgang der Foraminiferen-Fauna in der Bott­ cropaleontology, v. 15, No. I, Jan. 1969, p. sand-Lagune (westliche Ostsee) .-Meyniana, 116, pI. I.-Shown by scanning electron micro­ v. 18, Oct. 1968, p. 13-30, pI. I, text figs. 1-21 graphs, lacelike meshwork covers costae and (maps, diagrams, range chart, graphs) , table even extends down into pores where it form I.-Two species dominate in the lagoon and sieve plates. six others are also present in the vegetation zone of the lagoon. PLOTNIKOVA, L. F. Milkovodni Verkhn'okrejdovi Foraminiferi Platformenoj Chastini URSR.­ Siedlungs-Strukturen rezenter Foraminiferen.­ Akad. Nauk Ukrains. RSR, Instit. Geol. Nauk. Meyniana, v. 18, Oct. 1968, p. 31-34, text figs. Kiev, 1967, p. 1-108, pis. 1-15, range chart.­ 1-8 (graphs), table I.-Distribution patches of Over 80 species (25 species and 2 varieties benthonic Foraminifera in Kiel Bay. new and I species given a new name) from MAMET, BERNARD L. Foraminifera, Etherington the Upper Cretaceous. Formation (Carboniferous), Alberta, Canada. -Bull. Canadian Petro Geology, v. 16, No.2, POAG, C. WYLIE, and SKINNER, HUB ERT C. Cor­ June 1968, p. 167-179, text figs. 1-4 (map, rection of the type species of G lobulilla zone chart, range chart, graphs) .-Four as­ d'Orbigny.-Tulane Studies in Geol., v. 6, No semblages in the Upper Mississippian. 2, 3, Nov. 22, 1968, p. 127, 128, text figs. I, 2 (drawing, photomicrographs) .-Type spe­ MAMET, B. L., and MASON , D. Foraminiferal zo­ cies is G. caribaea and it has a round aperture nation of the Lower Carboniferous Connor surrounded by radiating slits. Lakes section, British Columbia.-Bull. Cana­ dian Petro Geology, v. 16, No.2, June 1968, p. PROSNIAKOVA, L. V. Planctonic Foraminifera 147-166, text figs. 1-5 (map, diagrams, range (Praeglobotrull cana and R otalipora) from the chart) .-Ten zones between middle Tour­ Cenomanian of the Crimea Plain (in Russian). naisian and early Namurian. -Paleont. Sbornik, No.4, vyp. 2, 1967, p. 3- CON'l'RIBU TIONS FROM THE CUSHMAN F OUNDATION FOR F OR A MIN IFERAL R ESEARCH 75

9, 1 pl.-Three species and 2 varieties, none vey Bull. 1271-A, 1968, p. 1-14, text figs. 1,2 new. (maps), table 1 (check list).-Foraminifera listed. ROBINSON, E. Chubbina, a new Cretaceous alve­ olinid genus from Jamaica and Mexico.-Pa­ SRINIVASAN, M. S., and SHARMA, V. The status laeontology, v. I I, pt. 4, Nov. 1968, p. 526- of the Late Tertiary Foraminifera of Car Nico­ 534, pis. 101-103, text fig. 1 (graphs), table 1. bar described by Schwager in 1866.-Micro­ -Three species, 2 new. paleontology, v. 15, No.1, Jan. 1969, p. 107- ROM EO, MARIA. Stratigrafia micropaleontologica IIO.-Topotypes have been selec:ed from new­ del Messiniano di Rossano (Cosenza) .- Pa­ ly-collected material. Each species is listed laeontographia Italica, v. 63 (n. ser. v. 33), wi th its current generic assignment. 1967, p. 1-74, pis. 1-4, text figs. 1-16 (map, SRIVASTAVA, S. S. Foraminifera from the basal geol. sections, columnar sections, graphs), Sylhet limestone of the Mawmluk quarry, table 1 (occurrence and abundance chart).­ Cherrapunji, and their stratigraphic signifi­ Illustrated systematic catalog of 115 species, cance.-Bull. Geol. Soc. India, v. 5, No.3, none new. July 1968, p. 9 1-93, text figs. I, 2 (thin sec­ RUZICKA, BOHUSLAV, HAJKR, aLDRICH, and G RMELA , tions) .-Paleocene species in Assam. ARNOST. Study of the growth spiral of A m­ mOllia beccarii tepida (Cushman) .- Trans. STEWART, WENDELL J. The stratigraphic and phy­ Instit. Mining and Metallurgy Ostrava, Min­ logenetic significance of the fusulinid ge nus ing and Geol. Ser., roc. 12, cis. 1, 1966, p. 85- EOIVa eril1gella , with several new species.­ 93 , text figs. 1,2 (diagram, graph) .-After re­ Spec. Publ. No. 10, Cushman Found. Foram. productive maturity progressivity of growth Res., Nov. 20, 1968, p. 1-29, pis. 1-7, text figs. declines. 1,2 (map, columnar sections) , tables 1-14.­ Emendation of EOIVaeringella with 14 species SA IDOVA, KIl. M. Preservation of Foraminifera in ( II new) and 2 new varieties. water, sediment and intestine of soil eaters (in Russian) .-Doklady Akad. Nauk SSSR, tom SULEIMANOV, I. S. K Sistematike Foraminifer 182, No.2, 1968, p. 453-455, text figs. I, 2 Rodov Arell oparrella i Trochammillula.-Akad. (graphs) . Nauk SSSR, Paleont. Zhurnal, No.3, 1968, p. 117-122, text figs. 1, 2, tables I, 2.-Two new EIGLlE, G EORGE A. BibJiografia sobre los Foram­ species of Trochammil1ula from the Aptian. iniferos bentonicos recientes de la provincia Caribe-Antillana, con observaciones.-Boletin TEWAR I, B. S., and SINGH, M. P. Two new plank­ Informativo, Asoc. Venez. Geol. , Min. Petrol., tonic Foraminifera from Kutch.-Res. Bull. v. 11 , No. I, Jan. 1968, p. 5-15 (mimeo.). Panjab Univ., n. ser., v. 18, pts. 3-4, Dec. 1967 (June 1968), p. 425-427, text figs. I, 2.-Glo­ Foraminiferal assemblages as indicators of high organic carbon content in sediments and of bigerillatheka kutchellsis and G lobigerapsis il1- dica from the Lutetian-Auversian. polluted waters.-Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petro Geol., v. 52, No. II, Nov. 1968, p. 2231-2241, TRUMPER, ERWiN. Variationsstatistische Unter­ text figs. 1-4 (maps) .-Based on examples suchungen an der Foraminiferen-Gattung Stel1- from the Caribbean, certain genera and species sioeil1a Brotzen.-Geologie, Zeitschr. Gesamt. favor polluted environments and those of high Geol. Wissenschaft., Berlin, Jahrg. 17, Beiheft organic carbon. Similar fossil assemblages 59, Feb. 1968, p. 1-103, pis. 1-17, text figs. 1- may suggest oil basins. 17 (drawings, diagrams, graphs, phylogenetic LITER, WILLIAM V. Shell-material vanatIOn in chart), Anlage 1-17 (graphs).--Species are the agglutinated foraminifer Trochammilla combined into 3: S. granulata, S. pommeral1a, pacifica Cushman.-Tulane Studies in Geol., and S. exsculpta, the latter with 2 subspecies. v. 6, Nos. 2, 3, Nov. 22, 1968, p. 80-84, lext fig . 1 (photomicrographs).--Specimens con­ TZANKOV, V., TZANEVA, P., VAPTZAROVA, 1., MIHAIL­ tinue to grow and add chambers (of an organic OVA-JovTCHEVA , P., DIKovA, P., TRIFONOVA, membrane) even though access to sediment EK ., BAYNOVA, EK ., and BUDUROV, K. Les as­ sociations micro fossiles en Bulgarie.-Direc­ is cut off. tion Generale de Geologie, Instil. Sci. Re­ MITH, PATSY B., and DURHAM , DAVID L. Middle cherches Geol., Sofia, 1965, p. 1-75, pis. 1- Miocene Foraminifera and stratigraphic rela­ 175.-Photomicrographs of assemblages from tions in the Adela ida Quadrangle, San Luis Middle Devonian to upper Sarmatian, most of Obispo County, CaJifornia.-U. S. Geol. Sur- them Foraminifera. 76 TODD- RECENT LITERA T URE ON THE FOR M IIN IFERA

VAN DER VLERK, I. M. Stratigraphie du Tertiaire 77 species, none new. Study based on 48 sam­ des Domains Indo-Pacifique et Mesogeen. Es­ ples taken through ice from depths of 17 to sai de correlation.-Proc. Kon. Nederl. Akad. 458 meters, and 2 core samples. A bathy­ Wetenschappen, ser. B, v. 69, No. 3, 1966, p. metric boundary found at about 200 meters. 336-344, text figs. 1-5 (diagrams, graphs, WELZEL, ERHARD. Foraminiferen und Fazies des map) .-Revision of correlation between Far frankischen Domeriums.-Erlanger geol. Abh., East and Europe. Heft 69, March 12, 1968, p. 3-79, pis. 1-3, texi VAN DER VLERK, I. M., and GLOOR, H. Evolution figs. 1-14 (graphs, drawings, maps) , tables 1- of an embryo.-Genetica, deel 39, aft. 1, 1968, 7.-IIIustrated systematic catalog of 145 spe­ p. 45-63, text figs. 1-10 (drawings, diagrams, cies and subspecies, 1 subspecies new and 1 graphs) .-History of evolution of Lepidocyc­ new name, from the Domerian. lina, in particular the degree of curvature of WOLOSCHYNA, A. M. Novyj Kampanskij Vid Roda the dividing wall between the protoconch and Orbignyna.-Akad. Nauk SSSR, P a leo n t . deuteroconch. Rate of evolution was incon­ Zhurnal, No. 3, 1968, p. 122, 123 , text fig. 1. stant, changing from slow to fast to slow to -Orbigll yna dolosa sp. nov. from the upper fast again. Campanian. VtLKS, G. Foraminiferal study of the Magdalen WOSZCZYNSKA, STANISLAWA. Preliminary results Shallows, Gulf of St. Lawrence.-Maritime of microfaunistic examinations of Zechstein Sediments, v. 4, No. 1, April 1968, p. 14-21 , deposits (English sum~ary of Polish text).­ pI. 1, text fig. 1 (map), table I.- Quantitative Kwart. Geol., Instyt. Geol., Warszawa, tom analysis of 23 samples between 13 and 77 12, No.1, 1968, p. 92-103 , pI. 1, table 1.­ meters, 43 species. Ten species, none new, not previously found in the Polish Permian. Recent Foraminifera in the Canadian Arctic.­ Micropaleontology, v. 15, No.1, Jan. 1969, p. RUTH TODD 35-60, pis. 1-3 , text figs. 1-5 (maps, graph), U. S. Geological Survey tables 1-4.-IlIustrated systematic catalog of Washington, D. C. 20560