Genus Pileolina Bermúdez, 1952

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pileolina Bermúdez, P.J. 1952. Estudio sistematico de los foraminiferos rotaliformis. Boletin de Geologia (Caracas) 2: 1-230.

  Type species:

   Valvulina pileolus d’Orbigny, 1839 by original designation.

Introduction

Parker (2009) points out that there is much confusion over the identity of Discorbinoides and its relationship to Pileolina Bermúdez 1952. Loeblich & Tappan (1987) considered Pileolina a genus of uncertain status as the type species is poorly defined and the type specimens are missing. Despite this, Hayward et al. (1999) argued that after Hornibrook & Vella‘s (1954) comments on the genus, the generic concept was well understood (from Mamo 2016).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

General References

Hayward, B.W., Grenfell, H.R., Reid, C.M. & Hayward, K.A. 1999. Recent New Zealand shallow-water benthic foraminifera: taxonomy, ecologic distribution, biogeography, and use in paleoenvironmental assessment. Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences monographs 21, 1-264. Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences monographs 21(75): 14–249

Heron-Allen, E. & Earland, A. 1932. Foraminifera Part 1. The ice free area of the Falkland Islands and adjacent seas. Discovery Reports 4: 291–460

Hornibrook, N. de B. & Vella, P. 1954. Notes on the generic names of some rotaliform foraminifera. The Micropaleontologist 8: 24-28

Loeblich, A.R. Jr & Tappan, H. 1987. Foraminiferal genera and their classification. New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold. [709]

Mamo, B.L. 2016. Benthic Foraminifera from the Capricorn Group, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Zootaxa 4215(1): 1–123 [84]

Parker, J.H. 2009. Taxonomy of Foraminifera from Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Association of Australian Palaeontologists Memoir 36: 1-810 [693]

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