Foraminifera name details
Bulimina petalifera Howe, 1939 †
915136 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:915136)
unaccepted > superseded combination (Opinion of Cushman and Parker (1947))
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Howe, H. V. (1939). Louisiana Cook Mountain Eocene Foraminifera. <em>Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Louisiana.</em> 14: 1-122. [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Bulimina petalifera Howe, 1939 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=915136 on 2024-04-19
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Howe, H. V. (1939). Louisiana Cook Mountain Eocene Foraminifera. <em>Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Louisiana.</em> 14: 1-122. [details]
basis of record Ellis, B. F.; Messina, A. (1940-2015). Catalogue of Foraminifera. <em>Micropaleontology Press, American Museum of Natural History, New York.</em> [details]
additional source Smith, L. E.; Sen Gupta, B. K. (2021). Henry V. Howe and his collection of Foraminifera at Louisiana State University. <em>Occasional Papers of the LSU Museum of Natural Science.</em> 91: 1-80., available online at https://sites01.lsu.edu/wp/mnspapers/files/2021/04/Occasional-Paper-91.pdf
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basis of record Ellis, B. F.; Messina, A. (1940-2015). Catalogue of Foraminifera. <em>Micropaleontology Press, American Museum of Natural History, New York.</em> [details]
additional source Smith, L. E.; Sen Gupta, B. K. (2021). Henry V. Howe and his collection of Foraminifera at Louisiana State University. <em>Occasional Papers of the LSU Museum of Natural Science.</em> 91: 1-80., available online at https://sites01.lsu.edu/wp/mnspapers/files/2021/04/Occasional-Paper-91.pdf
note: Holotype, paratype or syntype [details] Available for editors
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Holotype HVH 136, Eocene, Claiborne, Cook Mountain Fm.; “from Sample No. 36,” (Rob-2): “On the left bank of Saline Bayou beneath the Louisiana & Arkansas Railroad bridge at St. Maurice, sec. 15, T. 9 N., R. 6 W.,” Winn Parish, Louisiana. “The lower part of the bluff is marine and is traversed by five iron ore ledges. Below each of these ledges there is a fossiliferous layer of clay, each layer averaging perhaps 1½ feet in thickness.” Sample No. 36 is “from beneath the next to the highest iron ore ledge.” Collected by Marion S. Roberts in 1932 with H.V. Howe (Roberts 1934, Bed 2). Figured: pl. 9, figs. 22, 23. [details]