Recent and Fossil Foraminifera. 337 



distributed in moderately deep water at the present time, occurs 

 in the fossil state as far back as the Cretaceous period, where it is 

 not uncommon, and is subsequently found in many late Tertiary 

 deposits all over the world. 



180. Anomalina coronata Parker and Jones. 

 (Additional Note.) 



Anomalina coronata (Parker and Jones) Brady, 1887, Synopsis British Recent 



Foraminifera. 

 Planorbulina coronata (Parker and Jones) Flint, 1899, Pep. U.S. Nat. Museum 



for 1897, p. 335, pi. Ixxix. fig. 2. 



A few more fairly typical though small examples of this in- 

 teresting species. The specimens are fossils, from two different 

 sources, a clay and apparently a shell-sand. They are of small 

 size compared with recent specimens from North British seas, but 

 in other respects are quite characteristic. At the present day 

 A. coronata has a very wide distribution, but it only occurs in any 

 abundance in certain localities, favouring high latitudes and low 

 temperatures. In many of the ' Goldseeker ' dredgings in the 

 Shetland-Faeroe area the species occurs in enormous profusion, so 

 as to form an almost typical deposit, and the specimens attain a 

 comparatively large size and robust character. 



379. Pulvinulina auricula Fichtel and Moll sp. 



Nautilus auricula var. k Fichtel and Moll, 1803, Test. Micr., p. 108, pi. xx. 

 figs, a, b, c. 



Valvulina excavata d'Orbitrny, 1839, Foram. Canaries, p. 137, pi. i. figs. 43-45. 



Pulvinulina auricula (Fichtel and Moll) Parker and Jones, 1865, Phil. Trans., 

 vol civ. p. 393. 



Ditto. (Fichtel and Moll) Bradv, 1884, Foram. 'Challenger,' p. 688, pi. cvi. 

 fit;-. 5. 



Ditto. (Fichtel and Moll) Brady, 1887, Synopsis British Recent Foramini- 

 fera. 



Ditto. (Fichtel and Moll) Flint, 1899, Rep. U.S. Nat. Museum for 1897, 

 p. 329, pi. lxxiii. fig. 2. 



A few fossil specimens have been observed, but, curiously 

 enough, no recent ones. They are well preserved, probably from 

 a Tertiary shell-sand. It has already been recorded from the 

 Eocene of the Paris basin and later Tertiary deposits. 



380. Pulvinuliva brongni irtii d'< Irbigny sp. 



Rotalia brongniartii d'Orbigny, 1826, Ann. Sci. Nat,, vol. vii. p. 273, No. 27. 

 Rotalina brovgm'arti (d'Orbigny) d'Orbigny, 184(5, Foram. Foss. Yienne, 



p. 158, pi. viii. figs. 22 24. 

 Pulvinulina auricula (Fichtel and Moll) Parker, Jones and Brady, 1871, Ann. 



and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, vol. viii. p. 17: J ». pi. xii. fig. 143. 



