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Foraminifera taxon details

Loeblichiidae Cummings, 1955 †

720917  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:720917)

  1. Biota
  2. Chromista (Kingdom)
  3. Harosa (Subkingdom)
  4. Rhizaria (Infrakingdom)
  5. Foraminifera (Phylum)
  6. Fusulinata † (Class)
  7. Fusulinana † (Subclass)
  8. Endothyrida † (Order)
  9. Loeblichioidea † (Superfamily)
  10. Loeblichiidae † (Family)
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  1. Subfamily Banffellinae Vachard & Le Coze, 2022 †
    1. Genus Banffella Mamet, 1970 †
    2. Genus Brenckleites Vachard & Hance in Hance, Hou & Vachard, 2011 †
    3. Genus Florennella Conil in Groessens et al., 1982 †
    4. Genus Spinobrunsiina Conil & Longerstaey, 1980 †
    5. Genus Urbanella Malakhova, 1963 † accepted as Banffella Mamet, 1970 † (unaccepted > junior homonym, Subjective senior synonym Opinion of Reitlinger (1981) Invalid: Junior homonym (see note))
    6. Genus Urbanellina Brenckle, 2022 † accepted as Banffella Mamet, 1970 † (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, Unnecessary nomen novum pro Urbanella)
  2. Subfamily Endostaffellinae Loeblich & Tappan, 1984 †
    1. Genus Endostaffella Rozovskaya, 1961 †
    2. Genus Euxinita Conil & Dîl, 1980 †
    3. Genus Praeostaffellina Cózar, Somerville & Burgess, 2008 †
    4. Genus Praeplectostaffella Cózar, Somerville & Burgess, 2008 †
    5. Genus Euxinella Conil & Dîl, 1977 † accepted as Euxinita Conil & Dîl, 1980 † (Nomen novum in Conil and Dîl (1980) Junior homonym of Euxinella Moisseiev, 1936)
    6. Genus Zellerina Mamet, 1970 † accepted as Zellerinella Mamet, 1981 † accepted as Endostaffella Rozovskaya, 1961 † (unaccepted > junior homonym, Junior homonym of Zellerina Torre & Galleras, 1958)
    7. Genus Zellerinella Mamet, 1981 † accepted as Endostaffella Rozovskaya, 1961 † (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, Subjective junior synonym Opinion of (Brenckle & Groves, 1981; Rich, 1986; Brenckle 2005; Cózar et al., 2011; Groves et al., 2012, Kobayashi and Vachard (2022))
  3. Subfamily Loeblichiinae Cummings, 1955 †
    1. Genus Endostaffellopsis Cózar, Somerville, Sanz-López & Blanco-Ferrera, 2016 †
    2. Genus Loeblichia Cummings, 1955 †
  4. Subfamily Mediocrinae Vachard & Hance in Hance, Hou & Vachard, 2011 †
    1. Genus Chomatomediocris Vdovenko, 1973 †
    2. Genus Mediocris Rozovskaya, 1961 †
    3. Genus Plectomediocris Brazhnikova & Vdovenko, 1983 †
  5. Subfamily Spinoendothyrinae Cózar & Vachard, 2001 †
    1. Genus Elergella Conil, 1984 †
    2. Genus Inflatoendothyra Brazhnikova & Vdovenko, 1972 †
    3. Genus Palaeospinoendothyra Wu in Wu & Liao, 2001 †
    4. Genus Pseudochernyshinella Brazhnikova, 1974 †
    5. Genus Spinoendothyra Lipina, 1963 †
  6. Subfamily Urbanellinae Vachard & Hance in Hance, Hou & Vachard, 2011 † accepted as Banffellinae Vachard & Le Coze, 2022 † (unaccepted > junior homonym, Homonymy of the type genus (see note))
  7. Subfamily Urbanellininae Brenckle, 2022 † (unaccepted > unavailable name, Proposed as a junior synonym of Spinoendothyrinae. ICZN Art. 11.6. Publication as a synonym: A name which when first published in an available work was treated as a junior synonym of a name then used as valid is not thereby made available)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Cummings, R. H. (1955). New genera of Foraminifera from the British Lower Carboniferous. <em>Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.</em> 45(1): 1-8., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39746839
page(s): p. 3; note: As Loeblichinae (sic) n. subfam. [details] 
Description Advanced loeblichioids with marked quasiendothyroid trends: numerous chambers, absence of sutures, evolute whorls and...  
Description Advanced loeblichioids with marked quasiendothyroid trends: numerous chambers, absence of sutures, evolute whorls and pseudochomata. Various types of wall, from microgranular to granular.
Occurrence. Early Visean–late Serpukhovian; Palaeotethyan and Uralian Province; rarely cosmopolitan; or, inversely, limited to North America.
(Vachard and Le Coze (2022)).  [details]

Diagnosis Test planispiral throughout, evolute, with short axis of coiling; chambers numerous, increasing slowly in height as added;...  
Diagnosis Test planispiral throughout, evolute, with short axis of coiling; chambers numerous, increasing slowly in height as added; aperture basal. M. Devonian (Givetian) to U. Carboniferous (Moscovian). (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Loeblichiidae Cummings, 1955 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=720917 on 2025-05-17
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2013-03-07 12:41:16Z
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Hayward, Bruce W.
2018-01-24 09:55:32Z
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Le Coze, François

original description Cummings, R. H. (1955). New genera of Foraminifera from the British Lower Carboniferous. <em>Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.</em> 45(1): 1-8., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39746839
page(s): p. 3; note: As Loeblichinae (sic) n. subfam. [details] 

basis of record Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1987). Foraminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. 970pp., available online at https://books.google.pt/books?id=n_BqCQAAQBAJ [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
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Description Advanced loeblichioids with marked quasiendothyroid trends: numerous chambers, absence of sutures, evolute whorls and pseudochomata. Various types of wall, from microgranular to granular.
Occurrence. Early Visean–late Serpukhovian; Palaeotethyan and Uralian Province; rarely cosmopolitan; or, inversely, limited to North America.
(Vachard and Le Coze (2022)).  [details]

Diagnosis Test planispiral throughout, evolute, with short axis of coiling; chambers numerous, increasing slowly in height as added; aperture basal. M. Devonian (Givetian) to U. Carboniferous (Moscovian). (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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