Fusulinoidea

Fusulinoidea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Sar
Clade:	Rhizaria
Phylum:	Retaria
Subphylum:	Foraminifera
Class:	Globothalamea (?)
Order:	† Fusulinida
Superfamily:	† Fusulinoidea Möller, 1878 nom. transl. Ciry, 1952
Synonyms
Fusulinacea

The Fusulinoidea is a superfamily in the Fusulinida in which the test is spherical, discoida, or fusiform; commonly coiled, less often uncoiling in the late stage, numerous chambers per whorl; test wall of microgranular calcite (as for the order) in one to four layers. Tunnels or secondary foramina may result from partial resorption and secondary deposition may produce chomata, parachomate, tectoria, and axial fillings. Range: M Devonian (Givetian) – U Permian (Djulfian )

Families

The Fusulinoidea, as revised in Loeblich and Tappan, 1988, includes 7 families, 27 subfamilies, and 164 genera. The families are:

• Loeblichidae
• Ozawainellidae
• Fusulinidae
• Schwagerinidae
• Staffelllidae
• Verbeekinidae
• Neoschwageriidae—listed according to the reference.

References

• Alfred R. Loeblich Jr and Helen Tappan,1988. Forminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold. see Fusulinina-GSI Archived 23 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine