Buliminida
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The Buliminida are an order of shell-bearing, marine unicellular organisms from the group of foraminifera .
features
The species of the order secrete their housings from low-magnesium calcite (<5 mol% magnesium ). The housings are perforated, multi-chambered with a highly trochospiral, three-, two- or uniserial arrangement of the chambers, the wall is bilamellar. In many more sophisticated forms, the opening can be closed with an inner tooth plate.
Systematics
The order consists of eleven superfamilies (family selection):
- Superfamily Bolivinacea
- Family Bolivinidae
- Superfamily Loxostomatacea
- Family Bolivinellidae
- Superfamily Bolivinitacea
- Family Bolivinitidae
- Superfamily Cassidulinacea
- Family Cassidulinidae
- Superfamily Turrilinacea
- Family Stainforthiidae
- Superfamily Buliminacea
- Family Siphogenerinoididae
- Family Buliminidae
- Family Buliminellidae
- Family Uvigerinidae
- Reussellidae family
- Family Pavoninidae
- Superfamily Fursenkoinacea
- Family Fursenkoinidae
- Family Virgulinellidae
- Superfamily Delosinacea
- Family Delosinidae
- Superfamily Pleurostomellacea
- Family Pleurostomellidae
- Superfamily Stilostomellacea
- Family Stilostomellidae
- Superfamily Annulopatellinacea
- Family Annulopatellinidae
proof
- Barun K. Sen Gupta: Systematics of modern Foraminifera , In: Barun K. Sen Gupta (Ed.): Modern Foraminifera . Springer Netherlands (Kluwer Academic), 2002, ISBN 978-1-4020-0598-5 , pp. 28 .