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Spirillinina

Taxonomy
Spirillinina was named by Hohenegger and Piller (1975). It is extant. It was considered unknown by Hohenegger and Piller (1975) and Loeblich and Tappan (1987).

It was assigned to Spirillinida by Hohenegger and Piller (1975); to Foraminiferida by Loeblich and Tappan (1984); and to Tubothalamea by Loeblich and Tappan (1987).

Subtaxa

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1975Spirillinina Hohenegger and Piller
1984Spirillinina Loeblich and Tappan
1987Spirillinina Loeblich and Tappan

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomChromistaCavalier-Smith 1981
subkingdomRhizaria()
phylumForaminifera(Eichwald 1830)
RankNameAuthor
suborderSpirillininaHohenegger and Piller 1975
suborderSpirillininaHohenegger and Piller 1975

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Subor. Spirillinina Hohenegger and Piller 1975
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Fm. Spirillinidae Reuss and Fritsch 1861
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G. †Conicospirillina Cushman 1927
Subfm. †Neotrocholininae Rigaud et al. 2018
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G. †Hungarillina Blau and Wernli 1999
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Hungarillina lokutiense Blau and Wernli 1999
G. †Radiospirillina Blau and Wernli 1999
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Radiospirillina umbonata Blau and Wernli 1999
G. †Praepatellina Blau 1987
G. Spirillina Reuss 1862
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Spirillina bendensis Harlton 1933
Spirillina conoidea Paalzow 1917
Spirillina infima Strickland 1864
Spirillina polygyrata Bartenstein and Brand 1937
Spirillina punctulata Bartenstein and Brand 1937
Spirillina trochoides Berthelin 1879
G. Turrispirillina Cushman 1927
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
J. Hohenegger and W. Piller 1975As with the Lagenina, the wall structure is only here in connection with the test morphology and the phylogenetic relationships of diagnostic value.
The wall structure in early representatives of this subordination is two-layered, with an inner inaequigranular and one outer hyaline-radial layer (cf. Plate 8, Fig. 1, 2). In the course of of the Paleozoic Era, the inner layer was lost (see Plate 8, Fig. 3, 4). The housings are generally two-chamber, with
a spherical proloculus and a tubular deuteroloculus. This can be strepto- plan- or trochospiral. Protosepta and real septa appear very late in
evolutionary terms (chalk) in few forms. The numerous pores are larger in diameter than that of the Lagenina.
A. R. Loeblich and H. Tappan 1987Coiling planispiral to high trochospiral, proloculus followed by enrolled tubular undivided chambers or with few chambers per whorl, chambers may be secondarily subdivided; wall of calcite, optically a single crystal or few to a mosaic of crystals; a axis preferred orientation along axis of coiling and c-axis parallel to umbilical surface; may have pseudopores or micropores filled with organic matter and closed by sieve plates, wall formed by marginal accretion, not by calcification of an organic template produced by pseudopodia. U. Triassic to Holocene.
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: low Mg calcitesubo
Locomotion: stationaryo
Life habit: semi-infaunalo
Diet: omnivoreo
Created: 2007-11-26 01:07:08
Modified: 2007-11-26 03:07:08
Source: subo = suborder, o = order
References: Kiessling 2004, Loeblich and Tappan 1984

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Early/Lower Pennsylvanian to the top of the Holocene or 318.10000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 314.6 Ma

Collections (115 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Pennsylvanian318.1 - 314.6USA (Oklahoma) Spirillina bendensis (132915)
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0Germany Turrispirillina prealpina (45427)
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0Italy Turrispirillina sp. (20659)
Norian228.0 - 208.5Austria (Calcareous Alps) Spirillina sp., Turrispirillina sp. (38148)
Norian228.0 - 208.5Germany Spirillina sp. (170644)
Norian - Rhaetian228.0 - 201.3Turkey Turrispirillina sp. (73893 73896 73900)
Sevatian212.0 - 205.6Italy (Sicily) Turrispirillina sp. (36454)
Rhaetian208.5 - 201.3Slovakia Turrispirillina minima (85059 100089)
Pliensbachian - Toarcian190.8 - 174.1Italy Spirillina sp. (33620)
Late/Upper Pliensbachian189.6 - 183.0Germany (Bavaria) Spirillina orbicula (51275)
Early/Lower Toarcian183.0 - 182.0Spain (Cantabria) Spirillina infirma (222310)
Early/Lower Toarcian183.0 - 182.0Slovenia Spirillina sp. (87258)
Early/Lower Toarcian183.0 - 182.0Thailand Spirillina sp. (127115)
Early/Lower Toarcian183.0 - 182.0Somalia Spirillina sp. (179135)
Tenuicostatum183.0 - 182.0Spain (Cantabria) Spirillina infirma (222254 222259)
Toarcian - Bajocian182.7 - 168.3Thailand Spirillina sp. (127132)
Late/Upper Toarcian180.1 - 175.6Spain Spirillina numismalis, Spirillina orbicula (168058) Spirillina numismalis, Spirillina orbicula, Spirillina infima (168057)
Early/Lower Aalenian175.6 - 171.6Spain Conicospirillina sp. 1, Spirillina numismalis, Spirillina orbicula (168075) Spirillina numismalis, Spirillina orbicula (168072 168073 168074)
Late/Upper Aalenian175.6 - 171.6Spain Conicospirillina sp. 1, Spirillina numismalis, Spirillina orbicula (168076) Spirillina numismalis, Spirillina orbicula (168077 168078 168079)
Aalenian - Early/Lower Bajocian174.1 - 168.4Thailand Spirillina sp. (127137)
Early/Lower Bajocian171.6 - 168.4Spain Spirillina numismalis, Spirillina orbicula (168080) Spirillina orbicula (168081)
Late/Upper Bajocian171.6 - 167.7Russian Federation (Karachay-Cherkessia) Spirillina sp. (198639 198643 198645 198680 198692 198695) Spirillina spp. (198646 198673)
Bajocian170.3 - 168.3Slovakia Hungarillina lokutiense, Radiospirillina umbonata (201061)
Bathonian168.3 - 166.1Serbia and Montenegro Spirillina sp. (159190)
Bathonian168.3 - 166.1Saudi Arabia Spirillina sp. (48334 48335 48397 48456 48477 48478 48479)
Callovian166.1 - 163.5Saudi Arabia Spirillina sp. (45550 45551 47912 48505 48519 48526 48586 48594)
Early/Lower Callovian164.7 - 161.2Switzerland Spirillina tenuissima (61717)
Oxfordian163.5 - 157.3Poland Spirillina tenuissima (215194)
Oxfordian163.5 - 157.3Algeria Spirillina sp. (45045)
Oxfordian - Early/Lower Kimmeridgian163.5 - 150.8Bulgaria Spirillina helvetica (151485)
Early/Lower Oxfordian161.2 - 155.7France Spirillina tenuissima (61718 61719)
Late/Upper Oxfordian161.2 - 155.7Poland Spirillina orbicula (78599) Spirillina tenuissima (78596 78597 78598)
Late/Upper Oxfordian161.2 - 155.7Switzerland Spirillina tenuissima (61723)
Late/Upper Oxfordian161.2 - 155.7France Spirillina tenuissima (61724)
Middle Oxfordian161.2 - 155.7France Spirillinidae indet. (68189)
Middle Oxfordian161.2 - 155.7Switzerland Spirillina helvetica (58568)
Middle Oxfordian - Late/Upper Oxfordian161.2 - 155.7Germany Spirillina polygyrata (68548)
Late/Upper Oxfordian - Early/Lower Kimmeridgian161.2 - 150.8Portugal Conicospirillina basilensis (68252)
Late/Upper Oxfordian - Early/Lower Kimmeridgian161.2 - 150.8Spain Spirillinidae indet. (68307)
Kimmeridgian157.3 - 152.1Germany Spirillina sp. (68425)
Kimmeridgian157.3 - 152.1Egypt Conicospirillina planorbis, Conicospirillina trochoides (99488)
Early/Lower Kimmeridgian155.7 - 150.8Portugal Conicospirillina basilensis (68244)
Early/Lower Kimmeridgian155.7 - 150.8Germany (Lower Saxony) Spirillina sp. (24127)
Early/Lower Kimmeridgian155.7 - 150.8Poland Spirillina andreae, Spirillina elongata (215202) Spirillina andreae, Spirillina polygyrata (78625) Spirillina orbicula (78627) Spirillina orbicula, Spirillina andreae (78626) Spirillina polygyrata (78624) Spirillina tenuissima (78619) Spirillina tenuissima, Spirillina orbicula (78618)
Early/Lower Kimmeridgian155.7 - 150.8Poland (Swietokrzyskie) Spirillina tenuissima (83230)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian155.7 - 150.8Portugal Conicospirillina basilensis (68251)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian155.7 - 150.8Germany (Baden-Württemberg) Spirillina elongata, Spirillina tenuissima, Spirillina polygyrata (154138)
Tithonian152.1 - 145.0Poland Spirillina sp. (151546)
Tithonian152.1 - 145.0Portugal Conicospirillina basilensis (68238)
Early/Lower Tithonian150.8 - 145.0Germany Conicospirillina sp., Spirillina sp. (34608) Spirillina sp. (68092)
Late/Upper Tithonian150.8 - 145.0Italy Spirillina sp. (68259)
Early/Lower Berriasian145.0 - 140.2Czech Republic Spirillina sp. (202907)
Early/Lower Berriasian145.0 - 140.2Austria Spirillina sp. (60091 60194 60195)
Berriasian145.0 - 139.8Ukraine Spirillina kubleri (162310)
Hauterivian132.9 - 129.4Portugal Spirillina sp. (65761)
Hauterivian132.9 - 129.4France (Provence) Spirillina neocomiana (56054 56777)
Albian113.0 - 100.5Romania Spirillina minima (91389)
Middle Turonian93.5 - 89.3Austria (Salzkammergut) Spirillina cretacea (142308)
Paleocene66.0 - 56.0Canada (Nova Scotia) Spirillina sp. (141910)
Late/Upper Paleocene58.7 - 55.8Suriname Spirillina perforata (209458)
Late/Upper Oligocene28.4 - 23.03USA (Louisiana) Spirillina vicksburgensis (44521)
Otaian - Altonian21.7 - 15.9New Zealand Spirillina sp. (146596)
Middle Miocene15.97 - 11.608Australia (Victoria) Spirillina vivipara (166365)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.126 - 0.0117USA (South Carolina) Spirillina decorata (60923)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Seychelles Spirillina sp. (96926)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0France Spirillina sp. (56802 56803 56804 56805)