Lituolidae

Belongs within: Lituolina.
Contains: Triplasia.

The Lituolidae are a group of agglutinating foraminifera known from the Carboniferous to the present. The test is usually coiled in the earliest stages only, subsequently becoming uncoiled as the foram approaches maturity, and the interior is simple (Loeblich & Tappan 1964). In the genus Ammobaculites, the test is initially planispiral and the aperture is terminal and rounded. Lituola differs from Ammobaculites in having a multiple, cribrate aperture (Loeblich & Tappan 1964).

Lituolidae [Ammomarginulinidae, Lituacea, Lituolata, Lituoletta, Lituolideae, Lituolitidae, Polyphragmidae]
    |--LituolinaeM13
    |    |--Discamminoides Brönnimann 1951LT64
    |    |    `--*D. tobleri Brönnimann 1951LT64
    |    |--Lituola Lamarck 1804 [=Lituolites Lamarck 1804; incl. Cribrospirella Marie 1941]LT64
    |    |    |--*L. nautiloidea Lamarck 1804 [=*Lituolites nautiloidea]LT64
    |    |    |--‘Lituolites’ difformis Lamarck 1804 [=*Cribrospirella difformis]LT64
    |    |    |--L. mexicanaC40
    |    |    |--L. scorpiurusB64
    |    |    `--L. taylorensisC40
    |    |--Atactolituola Loeblich & Tappan 1984K14
    |    |--Bulbobuccicrenata Kerdany & Eissa 1973K14
    |    `--Kolchidina Morozova 1967K14
    |--AmmoastutinaeK14
    |    |--Ammoastuta Cushman & Brönnimann 1948LT64
    |    |    `--*A. salsa Cushman & Brönnimann 1948LT64
    |    `--Praeammoastuta Bursch 1952K14
    |         `--*P. alberdingi Bursch 1952 [=Ammoastuta alberdingi]LT64
    |--FlabellamminaeK14
    |    |--Flabellammina Cushman 1928LT64
    |    |    |--*F. alexanderi Cushman 1928LT64
    |    |    |--F. clavaLT52
    |    |    |--F. rugosa Alexander & Smith 1932LT64, LT52 [=Triplasia rugosaLT52]
    |    |    |--F. saratogaensisC40
    |    |    `--F. washitensisLT64
    |    |--Ammopalmula Lindenberg 1966K14
    |    |--Pterammina Hamaoui 1965K14
    |    `--TriplasiaK14
    `--AmmomarginulinaeK14
         |--Ammomarginulina Wiesner 1931K14
         |    |--*A. ensis Wiesner 1931LT64
         |    |--A. foliaceaC40
         |    `--A. troptunensis Voloshinova in Bykova et al. 1958H03
         |--Agardhella Nagy & Basov 1998 [Agardhellinae]K14
         |--Ammobacularia Kristan-Tollmann 1964K14
         |--Ammobaculites Cushman 1910 [Ammobaculitinae]K14
         |    |--*A. agglutinans (d’Orbigny 1846)LT64 [=Spirolina agglutinansH03]
         |    |--A. calcareumC40
         |    |--A. catenulatusH03
         |    |--A. compressa [=Ammomarginulina compressa]LT64
         |    |--A. coprolithiformeC40
         |    |--A. foliaceusLT64
         |    |--A. humboldti [=Spirolina humboldti, Haplophragmium humboldti; incl. H. humboldti var. latum]LT52
         |    |--A. stenomecaC40
         |    `--A. taylorensisC40
         |--Ammotium Loeblich & Tappan 1953K14
         |    `--*A. cassis (Parker in Dawson 1870) [=Lituola cassis]LT64
         |--Carteriella Haig & McCartain 2010K14
         |--Eratidus Saidova 1975K14
         |--Haymanella Sirel 1999 [Haymanellinae]K14
         |    `--H. paleocenicaB-F08
         |--Kutsevella Dain 1978K14
         |--‘Lamina’ Voloshina 1972 non Forster 1970K14
         |--Ostiobaculites Brönnimann, Whittaker & Zaninetti 1992K14
         |--Sculptobaculites Loeblich & Tappan 1984K14
         `--Simobaculites Loeblich & Tappan 1984K14

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[B-F08] BouDagher-Fadel, M. K. 2008. The Cenozoic larger benthic foraminifera: the Palaeogene. Developments in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy 21: 297–418.

[B64] Brady, H. B. 1864. Notes on Foraminifera new to the British fauna. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 33 (Notices and Abstracts): 100–101.

[C40] Cushman, J. A. 1940. Foraminifera: Their classification and economic use 3^rd ed. Harvard University Press: Cambridge (Massachusetts).

[H03] Hanagata, S. 2003. Miocene-Pliocene Foraminifera from the Niigata oil-fields region, northeastern Japan. Micropaleontology 49 (4): 293–340.

[K14] Kaminski, M. A. 2014. The year 2010 classification of the agglutinated Foraminifera. Micropaleontology 60 (1): 89–108.

[LT52] Loeblich, A. R., Jr & H. Tappan. 1952. The foraminiferal genus Triplasia Reuss, 1854. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 117 (15): 1–61, 8 pls.

[LT64] Loeblich, A. R., Jr & H. Tappan. 1964. Sarcodina: chiefly “thecamoebians” and Foraminiferida. In: Moore, R. C. (ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology pt C. Protista 2 vol. 1. The Geological Society of America and The University of Kansas Press.

[M13] Mikhalevich, V. I. 2013. New insight into the systematics and evolution of the Foraminifera. Micropaleontology 59 (6): 493–527.