Bessiella

Belongs within: Loeblichiidae.

Bessiella is a genus of foraminiferans known from the Moliniacian to Livian substages of the middle Early Carboniferous (Cózar & Vachard 2001).

Characters (Cózar & Vachard 2001): Test medium to large, with numerous chambers, tight coiling of inner whorls, outer whorls more or less aligned, less deviated than Dainella, thin and closely spaced septa in inner whorls, thicker in outer whorls, depressed sutures at last whorl, weak chomata replaced locally by spines. Microgranular wall.

<==Bessiella Conil & Hance in Groessens et al. 1982 [incl. Florennella Conil in Groessens et al. 1982]CV01
    |--*B. legrandi Conil & Hance in Groessens et al. 1982CV01
    |--B. agilis Conil in Conil et al. 1981CV01
    |--B. cussyensis (Meunier 1888) [=Endothyra cussyensis]CV01
    |--B. densa (Conil 1980) [=Florennella densa]CV01
    |--B. exuberans (Conil & Lys 1964) [=Plectogyra exuberans, Dainella exuberans]CV01
    |--B. grandis (Grozdilova & Lebedeva in Sultanaev et al. 1978) [=Dainella grandis]CV01
    |--B. gumbeica (Malakhova 1975) [=Dainella gumbeica]CV01
    |--B. hunanensis (Lin 1981) [=Dainella hunanensis]CV01
    |--B. immensa (Simonova 1975) [=Dainella immensa]CV01
    |--B. leusoniae Conil 1980CV01
    |--B. moderata (Conil in Groessens et al. 1982) [=Florennella moderata]CV01
    |--B. stipata (Conil in Groessens et al. 1982) [=Florennella stipata]CV01
    `--B. stricta (Conil & Lys 1964) [=Plectogyra rotayi var. stricta, *Florennella stricta]CV01
         |--B. s. strictaCV01
         `--B. s. amplissima (Conil in Groessens et al. 1982) [=Florennella stricta amplissima]CV01

Nomina nuda: Florennella stricta tenuis Groessens et al. 1982CV01

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[CV01] Cózar, P., & D. Vachard. 2001. Dainellinae subfam. nov. (Foraminiferida du Carbonifère inférieur), révision et nouveaux taxons. Geobios 34 (5): 505–526.