Foraminifera - Fusulinoidea - Schwagerinidae

Dunbar and Skinner (1931: p. 261 (plate description), 263) did not originally designate a holotype for Parafusulina wordensis, but considered the specimens figured in Plate 2 (figs. 1-4) to be part of a syntype (cotype) suite with catalogue number YPM 9922. The figured syntypes are currently catalogued under the following Yale Peabody Museum Invertebrate Paleontology catalogue numbers: YPM IP 21145 (Dunbar and Skinner 1931: Pl. 2, fig. 1), YPM IP 50046 (Dunbar and Skinner 1931: Pl. 2, fig. 3), and YPM IP 50047 (Dunbar and Skinner 1931: Pl. 2, fig. 4) (White and Skorina 2003: p. 62). Thompson (1948: p. 54) designated YPM 20886 as the holotype (lectotype) of Parafusulina wordensis; however, this specimen was not originally part of Dunbar & Skinners (1931) figured specimens in the original publication, but was subsequently figured by Dunbar and Skinner (1937: Pl. 72, fig. 5) in their publication on the Permian Fusulinidae of Texas.

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Full reference: C. O. Dunbar and J. Skinner. 1931. New fusulinid genera from the Permian of West Texas. American Journal of Science 5(22):252-268

Belongs to Parafusulina according to C. O. Dunbar and J. W. Skinner 1937

See also Dunbar and Skinner 1931

Sister taxa: Parafusulina (Parafusulina), Parafusulina antimonioensis, Parafusulina bakeri, Parafusulina boesei, Parafusulina californica, Parafusulina cerrogordoensis, Parafusulina complexa, Parafusulina fountaini, Parafusulina fusoidea, Parafusulina gifuensis, Parafusulina guatemalaensis, Parafusulina halli, Parafusulina japonica, Parafusulina juncea, Parafusulina kaerimizensis, Parafusulina kingorum, Parafusulina kinosakii, Parafusulina klamathensis, Parafusulina kummeli, Parafusulina lata, Parafusulina lineata, Parafusulina maleyi, Parafusulina mccloudensis, Parafusulina multiseptata, Parafusulina nakamigawai, Parafusulina nosonensis, Parafusulina owensensis, Parafusulina parakinosakii, Parafusulina peruana, Parafusulina potterensis, Parafusulina rothi, Parafusulina sangobensis, Parafusulina sapperi, Parafusulina sellardsi, Parafusulina shimotsukensis, Parafusulina splendens, Parafusulina sullivanensis, Parafusulina tochigiensis, Parafusulina tomeganensis, Parafusulina tomowoozawai, Parafusulina ubehebensis, Parafusulina virga, Parafusulina yabei, Parafusulina yoshiakiozawai

Type specimen: YPM IP 50046, 50047, 21145 (syntypes), a partial shell (axial thin section of test)

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer-photosymbiotic

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Parafusulina wordensis in the database

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