Belongs within: Parathuramminida.
The Parathuramminidae are a group of globular Foraminifera known from the Devonian to the Lower Carboniferous, often with distinctive tubular projections. In the genus Irregularina the test is irregular in shape (Loeblich & Tappan 1964a).
Characters (Loeblich & Tappan 1964a): Globular chamber or cluster of chambers; aperture absent or multiple, at ends of tubular projections.
Parathuramminidae
| i. s.: Petchorina Reytlinger in Varsanofeva & Reytlinger 1962LT64b
| `--*P. schezhimovensis Reytlinger in Varsanofeva & Reytlinger 1962LT64b
| Quasituberitina Poyarkov in Purkin, Poyarkov & Rozhanets 1961LT64a
| `--*Q. magna Poyarkov in Purkin, Poyarkov & Rozhanets 1961LT64a
| Palachemonella Beckmann 1953LT64a
| `--*P. torleyi Beckmann 1953LT64a
| Parathuramminites Poyarkov 1969HW93
|--Parathurammina Suleymanov 1945LT64a [ParathurammininaeM13]
| |--*P. dagmarae Suleymanov 1945LT64a
| `--P. gekkeriE03
|--ChrysothurammininaeM13
| |--Chrysothurammina Neumann, Pozaryska & Vachard 1975HW93
| `--Salpingothurammina Poyarkov 1961HW93
| `--*S. tuberculata (Lipina 1950) (see below for synonymy)LT64a
`--Irregularina Bykova 1955HW93 (see below for synonymy)
|--*I. karlensis Vissarionova 1950LT64a
|--I. cardiformisLT64a
|--I. mopha [=I. morpha]LT64a
`--I. nodosa (Antropov 1950) [=*Corbis nodosus, *Corbiella nodosa]LT64a
Irregularina Bykova 1955HW93 [incl. Corbiella Antropov in Rauzer-Chernousova & Fursenko 1959LT64a, Corbis Antropov 1950 non Cuvier 1817LT64a; IrregularininaeM13]
*Salpingothurammina tuberculata (Lipina 1950) [=Parathurammina tuberculata, Thurammina (*Salpingothurammina) tuberculata]LT64a
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[E03] Edgell, H. S. 2003. Upper Devonian Charophyta of Western Australia. Micropaleontology 49 (4): 359–374.
[HW93] Hart, M. B., & C. L. Williams. 1993. Protozoa. In: Benton, M. J. (ed.) The Fossil Record 2 pp. 43–70. Chapman & Hall: London.
[LT64a] Loeblich, A. R., Jr & H. Tappan. 1964a. 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.
[LT64b] Loeblich, A. R., Jr & H. Tappan. 1964b. Sarcodina: chiefly “thecamoebians” and Foraminiferida. In: Moore, R. C. (ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology pt C. Protista 2 vol. 2. 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.