CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE CUSHMAN FOUNDATION FOR FORAMINIFERAL RESEARCH VOLUME XVIII, Part 2 April, 1967 Contents PAGE No. 329. Annotated bibliography of Paleozoic nonfusulinid Foraminifera, Addendum 4 Donald F. Toomey and B. Mamet ............................................................................................................ 55 No. 330. Variation in test morphology of Triloculina linneiana d'Orbigny in laboratory cultures Detmar Schnitker ........................................................................................................................... 84 Corrections .................................................................................. ........ .. ...................................................................................................... 87 Recent Literature on the Foraminifera Ruth Todd ......................................................................................... 88 1967 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE CUSHi\IA...'" }<"O UNDATION FOR FORAAUNIFERAL RESEARCH 55 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE CUSHMAN FOUNDATION FOR FORAMINIFERAL RESEARCH VOLUME XVIII, PART 2, APRIL 1967 329. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PALEOZOIC NONFUSULINlD FORAMINIFERA, ADDENDUM 4 DONALD FRANCIS TOOMEY Pan American Petroleum Corporation, Research Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma and B. MAMET Department of Geology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada ABSTRACT ozoic nonfusulinid Foraminifera according to desig­ This addendum includes 150 annotated r eference~ per­ nated geographic provinces. The inclusion of the taining to Paleozoic nonfusulinid Foraminifera, and ca n be considered r easonably complete through the year 1965. present 150 references continues to point up the As in previous bibliographies. (Toom ey. 1959. 1961. 1963, pronounced increase of foraminiferal literature 1965, 1966)1. the aims are unchanged: (1) to ~ umm arlze from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East (Col­ briefly the per tinent data contained in each article, (2) umn C), during the last five years. Significant ad­ to li!~t all new genera a.nd species de8cribed therein, and ditions have also been made in the Soviet Union (3) to denote, by brack eta, a ll taxonomic changes noted from curl·ent and subsequent publications, thus making (Column A), due mainly to their ever increased the bibliogra phy a more u seful working tool. An attempt usage of the endothyroid smaller foraminifers in is a lso m ade to evaluate the literature to date and pos­ stratigraphically subdividing the Lower Carbon­ siblY to delineate trends. iferous. INTRODUCTION In Text Figure 2 the foraminiferal literature out­ This an notated bibliography consists of 36 ref­ put has been plotted according to geologic age. In erences containing original descriptions of genera general, the basic overall trend remains similar, ex­ and species, and taxonomic nomenclature of Paleo­ cept that there is a distinct increase in Mississippian zoic nonfusulinid Foraminifera. An additional 114 (Lower Carboniferous) foraminiferal literature. references that utilized smaller foraminifers in This is primarily due to the addition of so many stratigraphic subdivision and that mention incidental Soviet references pertaining to Lower Carbonifer­ occurrences are also included for completeness. ous endothyroid studies. The 150 references have been annotated by the ANNOTATED BmLIOGRAPHY compilers. These annotations include geologic age, geographic locality, type of illustrations, orig­ A. PRECARBONIFEROUS FORAMINIFERA inal language, new forms described, and comments I. BIRtNA, L. M., 1949, The boundary between in brackets on taxonomic changes from the anno­ the Devonian and . the Carboniferous in the tated article or noted from subsequent publica­ central portion of the Russian Platform in the tions. light of a petrographic study of the bordering This bibliography may be considered to be rea­ layers: Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Izvestia, ser. sonably complete through the year 1965. This in­ geol. No.5, p. 67-81, [in Russian with Eng­ el udes the Soviet references, which, through the lish summary]. able assistance of Professor Mamet, have been The writer notes the occurrence of the for­ ompletely up-dated. aminifers Hyperammilla minima, Bisphaera, EIl­ Including this addendum, the total number of dothyra, and Umbel/ilia, in scattered outcrops of annotated Paleowic nonfusulinid foraminiferal ref­ Upper Devonian-Lower Carboniferous rocks ex­ erences has reached 815. The compilers would posed on the central portion of the Russian Plat­ greatly appreciate the effort and cooperation of all form, U.S.S.R. Paleowic foraminiferal workers in keeping them 2. CHERNOV, G. A., 1961 , New data on the mrrent on all new works that appear by sending stratigraphy of the Upper Devonian in the pertinent reprints and separates when available. eastern part of the Bolshezemelsk Tundra: LITERATURE EVALUATION Akad. Nauk S.S.s.R., Doklady, v. 136, no. I, AND APPARENT TRENDS p. 183-186, [in Russian; English translation Text Fig. I is an attempt to show chronologic­ IN: Doklady ESS, Am. Oeo!. Inst., v. 136, .illy the distribution of articles relating to Pale- nos. 1-6, p. 42-44] . A detailed study of the fauna of the Upper _ t:"o ntr. C U!:l hman Jo"ound. Foram. Research, Y. 10, p. 71- lA5: v. 12, P. 33-46: v. 14, p . 77-94; v. 16, P. 1-21 ; v. Devonian deposits in the eastern part of the Bol­ :-;. ll. 46-66. shezemelsk Tundra in the region of the Ayachyaga 56 TOOMEY ANO MAME T-BIBLIOGRAPH Y OF PA L }<JOZO IC NONI"USULINID 1<"'ORAMIN IFERA, ADD. 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 <t- OO CD ,... (I) 0 0 N <t- OO CD ,... (I) !!! !!! !!! (I) !!!'" !!? ~ !!?'" !!? !!? I '" I '"I '" I D. AUSTRALAS IA l! H D fHI n tim A • .!I • oil. ,!, • I. JI 25 20 15 C. EUROPE , AFR ICA, MI DDLE EAST 10 5 3 I 25 ...VI ..J 20 0 f- a:: < 15 B. NORTH AND "- SOUTH AMERICA 0 10 ...a:: ttl ~ 5 ::l z 3 I 30 25 LEGEND 20 PRECARBONIFEROUS PALEOZOIC A. U. S.S. R. 15 -~ LATE 10 5 3 I <t- o 0 0 (I) oo ,... (I) (I) !!! !!! TEXT FIGURE 1 Geographic Distribution of Paleozoic Foraminiferal Literature CONTRIBUTION [.; :PROM THE Ct;SHM..A...I" FOUNDATION FOR FOHAl\UNIFERAL HESEAHCH 57 300 280 260 200 160 140 120 V> 100 ...J !,!"' >-- a: " 80 "- 0 a: "'aJ ~ 60 :::> z 40 20 0 z z z z z z z z '" ~ '" '" "ir "a: Q" "ir z "- Z ~ aJ aJ > :::> 0 "- a: ~ ~ ...J > 0 > in "...J 0 V> V> "'"- u u'" a: 0 >- '" 0 "' V> V> V> z "'a: z "- ~ "'"- TEXT FIGUR E 2 Geological D istributio n of Paleozoic Foraminiferal Literature 58 TOOl\1E Y .AJ.~ D MAMET-BIBLIOC RAPHY OF P ALEOZO JC 1'\'0 1'\'F CSULI l\'" IO FOR Al\lI N IF'ERA , ADD. 4 River, a tributary of the Vorkuta, and on the Usa parts of the basin where normal salinity and an ac­ River and its tributaries, the Yelets and Lek-Yelets, ti ve hyd rodynamic regi me prevailed. U.S.S.R., permitted el aborate detailed faunal stud­ 5. CHUVASHOV, B. 1965, Foraminifera and ies which resulted in the establishment of a num­ r., algae from the Upper Devonian sediments in ber of strati graphic levels in the Upper Devonian the western slope of the central and southern deposits. Previously described typical Frasnian and Urals: Akad. Nauk S.S.S. R., Trudy, Ural Fammenian foraminiferal species assemblages are Branch, Inst. Geol., Trans., Sverdlovsk, No. listed from this region, and , in additi on, the foram­ 74, Problems of Stral. No.8, p. 3-153, 29 pI., iniferal microfaunas of the transitional boundary 3 text-fig., [in Russian]. beds of the Lower Carboniferous are listed. From the Upper Devonian sediments along 3. CHERNOV, G . A., 1964, Silurian deposits of the western slope of the central and southern Ural the Chernov Uplift (Bol' shezemel'skaya Tun­ Mountains, U.S.S.R. , a microfauna of 116 species, dra): Akad. Nauk S.S .S.R., Doklady, v. 156, of which one genus and 29 species are new, is de­ no. 4, p. 843-846, I text-fig., [in Russian]. scribed and illustrated by thin-section photomicro­ Bed-by-bed collections of fossils, primarily graphs. The new forms are: Paratilllrall1milla brachiopods and ostracodes, support the inference turgida, P. scilllla, P. m Ollstrata, P. horrida, P. reg­ that a thick Silurian carbonate section is present lI/aris, p, o bllala, Cribrosplw eroides in com plus, in the Chernov Uplift., U.S.S.R. These beds were Uralinella ova/is, R auserilla variosa, Eo /uberi/ina once erroneously mapped as Middle and Upper praecipia, Tll beporill a? illcita, Caligel/a? di vida, Devonian deposits. Reitlinger identified the foram­ Paracaligel/oides abramjallae n. gen., P. mllricati­ inifers and asserted that the species assemblage, jormis, Bailugallella ser piell sis, Pliratiklzill ella ill ­ of previously described forms, is typicall y Upper solila , P. vizlz aica, Ev/allia prava, E .? elllnerala, Silurian (Lower Ludlovian). R ectallgulilla mammata, Brullsia Il ovita, Septaglo­ mospirall el/a (S.) lastica, S. Ilimia, Haplophragmel­ 4. CHUVA SHOV, B. I., 1964, Bionomic descrip­ la vi/vell sis, Plectogyra asjamica, Cornuspira pus­ tion of the Fammenian Basin on the western sila, Nallicel/a uralica, N. suljomica, and Umbel/a slope of the central and south Urals: Paleont. efJusa [should be referred to Umbel/ilia; see Loe­ Zhur., No. 4, p. 10-22, 2 text-fi g. , [in Rus­ blich and Tappan, 1961 ; Chuvashov regards the sian; English translation IN : Internal. Geol. umbellinids as charophytes]. Significant taxo­ Rev., v. 7, no. II, p. 2054-2062, 2 text-fig.). nomic changes incl ude the foll owing: Cribro­ In the Upper Devonian (Fammenian) basin splwera simplex Reitlinger, 1954 = Cribrosphaer­ on the western slope of the central and south Ural oides simplex ( Reitlinger) ; Cribrosphaera crassa Mountains, U.S.S.R., three major facies types are Pronina, 1960 = Cribrosphaeroides crassllS (Pron­ we ll developed : ( I ) shoal facies, consisting of ina) ; Usloll ia permira Antropov, 1959 = Crib­ thick beds of limestone and dolomite with some rosphaeroides permirus (Antropov) ; EOll odosaria? anhydrite, (2 ) depression facies, consistin g of bl ack multiformis Lipina, 195 0 = Tikhillel/a multiformis bituminous limestone, cherty mudstone and bl ack (Lipina); SYlliel/a tortuosa Antropov, 1950 = R ec­ shale, and (3) an intermediate facies, consisting lllllgulilill 10rlnoslI A ntropov; Brullsiill (l ura /iell of interbedded types from the other two facies.