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WoRMS taxon detailsSilicosigmoilina Cushman & Church, 1929 †
 578114 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:578114)
accepted
Genus
Silicosigmoilina californica Cushman & Church, 1929 † (type by original designation)
Bramletteia Israelsky, 1951 † · unaccepted (Subjective junior synonym in...)
Subjective junior synonym in opinion of Loeblich and Tappan (1987) Silicosigmoilina (Bramletteia) Israelsky, 1951 † · unaccepted (Opinion of Takayanagi (1960))
marine,
fossil only
feminine
Cushman, J. A.; Church, M. A. (1929). Some Upper Cretaceous Foraminifera from near Coalinga, California. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.</em> (4) 18 (16): 497-530.
page(s): p. 502 [details] Available for editors  [request]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Silicosigmoilina Cushman & Church, 1929 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=578114 on 2025-05-25
Date action by
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Cushman, J. A.; Church, M. A. (1929). Some Upper Cretaceous Foraminifera from near Coalinga, California. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.</em> (4) 18 (16): 497-530.
page(s): p. 502 [details] Available for editors [request]original description (of Silicosigmoilina (Bramletteia) Israelsky, 1951 †) Israelsky, M. C. (1951). Foraminifera of the Lodo Formation, central California; General introduction and part 1, Arenaceous Foraminifera. <em>United States Geological Survey Professional Papers.</em> 240-A: 1-29., available online at https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/pp240A page(s): p. 10 [details] Available for editors [request] Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test ovoid in outline, proloculus followed by long narrow chambers a half coil in length, added slightly less than 180¡ apart, so that in transverse section the chambers form a sigmoid series; wall finely agglutinated, surface smoothly finished; aperture rounded to ovate, with a small simple tooth projecting from one margin. U. Cretaceous to Paleocene; cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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