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Millerella

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Millerella
Temporal range: Carboniferous
~339–300 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Phylum: Retaria
Subphylum: Foraminifera
Class: Globothalamea (?)
Order: Fusulinida
Family: Eostaffellidae
Genus: Millerella
Species

M. marblensis Thompson, 1942[1]
M. pura Malakova, 1956[2]

Millerella is an extinct genus of fusulinid belonging to the family Eostaffellidae.[3] Fossils of the genus have been found in Carboniferous beds in North America[1] and central Asia.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b Wilde, G.L. (2006). "Pennsylvanian-Permian Fusulinaceans of the Big Hatchet Mountains, New Mexico". New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin. 38: 1–331. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  2. ^ a b Zhang, L.X. (1982). "Fusulinids from the eastern Qinghai-Xizang plateau". Stratigraphy and Palaeontology in Western Sichuan and Eastern Tibet. pp. 119–244.
  3. ^ Groves, John R. (May 1988). "Calcareous foraminifers from the Bashkirian stratotype (Middle Carboniferous, south Urals) and their significance for intercontinental correlations and the evolution of the Fusulinidae". Journal of Paleontology. 62 (3): 368–399. doi:10.1017/S0022336000059151.