Foraminifera taxon details
Hemigordius calcarea Cushman & Waters, 1928 †
897572 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:897572)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Cushman, J. A.; Waters, J. A. (1928). Some Foraminifera from the Pennsylvanian and Permian of Texas. <em>Contributions from the Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research.</em> 4(2): 31-55., available online at https://cushmanfoundation.allenpress.com/Portals/_default/files/pubarchive/cclfr/4cclfr2.pdf
page(s): p. 44, pl. 6, figs. 1, 2; note: Origin of the species lost (Plummer, 1945 see note). [details] Available for editors
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page(s): p. 44, pl. 6, figs. 1, 2; note: Origin of the species lost (Plummer, 1945 see note). [details] Available for editors
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Hemigordius calcarea Cushman & Waters, 1928 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=897572 on 2024-04-19
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Cushman, J. A.; Waters, J. A. (1928). Some Foraminifera from the Pennsylvanian and Permian of Texas. <em>Contributions from the Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research.</em> 4(2): 31-55., available online at https://cushmanfoundation.allenpress.com/Portals/_default/files/pubarchive/cclfr/4cclfr2.pdf
page(s): p. 44, pl. 6, figs. 1, 2; note: Origin of the species lost (Plummer, 1945 see note). [details] Available for editors [request]
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]
page(s): p. 44, pl. 6, figs. 1, 2; note: Origin of the species lost (Plummer, 1945 see note). [details] Available for editors
[request] 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]
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Holotype Plummer, H. J. (1945). Smaller foraminifera in the Marble Falls, Smithwick, and lower Strawn strata around the Llano uplift in Texas. University of Texas Bulletin. 4401: 209-271. , available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2152/23430Plummer (p. 261) :
“205— T— 150. Strawn. Excellent exposures of gray shale and interbedded reddish calcareous sandstone ledges on the east side of the San Saba-Regency highway, 11.05 miles by road northwest of the bridge over San Saba River in the.north edge of the city of San Saba, and 1.4 miles by road southeast of the small community of Neal (fig. 16). East of the fence a good section is exposed in a gentle slope to- a point about 0.2 of a mile east of the road, and to the west low banks of similar strata lienear a cattle tank (Sta. 205-T-160). This roadside bank must be the type locality for two Cushman and Waters species, Hyperammina spinescens and Hyperamminella (now Earlandia) minuta. These same authors recorded this as the type locality for Hemigordius calcareus, but Mr. Waters now states (verbal communication) that this is an error and that the holotype must have been taken from geologically later material collected farther north. Numerous samples from this exposure have been washed, and they all reduce to rather small concentrates composed largely of limonitic flakes and particles, some sand, rare conodonts, rare ostracodes, and many foraminiferal tests of many species (Table 1). This is now made the type locality for Hyperammina elegantissima, n.sp., and Reophax expatiatus,n.sp. These extensive exposures lienear the top of the unit named the Spring Creek beds by Drake.”
And Footnote p. 215: “A seventh species, Hemigordius calcareus Cushman and Waters, was recorded from Sta. 205-T-150, but in a large amount of material collected from this type locality and in the immediate vicinity no trace of such a test has been found. Mr. Waters, in a personal interview, has expressed the opinion that this record must be erroneous.” [details]