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Nummoloculina

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	8326600	https://www.gbif.org/species/8326600
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	1971	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=1971

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Chromista : Foraminifera : Tubothalamea : Miliolida : Hauerinidae : Nummoloculina

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Foraminferea : Miliolida : Hauerinidae : Nummoloculina

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
class	Foraminferea	Lee 1990
order	Miliolida	Lankester 1885
suborder	Miliolina	Delage and Hérouard 1896
superfamily	Miliolacea	Ehrenberg 1839
family	Hauerinidae	Schwager 1876
subfamily	Sigmoilinitinae	Luczkowska
genus	Nummoloculina	Steinmann 1881

Scientific Name

Nummoloculina Steinmann, 1881

Name Published In

N. Jahrb. Min., 1881 (1)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Nummoloculina	genus	belongs to Sigmoilinitinae	stated without evidence	Loeblich and Tappan, 1988
Nummoloculina	genus	belongs to Foraminiferida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (100%)

First Recorded Appearance

101 - 94 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

hypersaline,marine (based on Miliolina)

Motility

stationary (based on Miliolina)

Diet

deposit feeder (based on Miliolina)

Taphonomy

high Mg calcite (based on Miliolina)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)
Nummoloculina circumcostata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nummoloculina contraria species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nummoloculina dolianitii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nummoloculina heimi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nummoloculina jamesbayensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nummoloculina regularis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nummoloculina robusta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Nummoculina	GBIF	genus	Chromista : Foraminifera : Tubothalamea : Miliolida : Hauerinidae : *Nummoculina*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1988	Nummoloculina Loeblich and Tappan
2002	Nummoloculina Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Loeblich A. R., Tappan H. (1988) , Foraminiferal genera and their classification, 1-1728

Gross, O. (2001). Foraminifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 60-75 - via World Register of Marine Species

Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1987). Foraminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. 970pp. - via World Register of Marine Species

Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. - via World Register of Marine Species

Aphia2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/J.J. Lee et al., 2000 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

N. Jahrb. Min., 1881 (1) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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