NO. 5 CUSHMAN AND MCCULLOCH : SOME BULIMINIDAE 235 



Subfamily TurrUtninae 



Genus BULIMINELLA Cushman, 1911 



Bullminella curta Cushman 



Plate 29, Fig. 1 



Buliminella curta Cushman, Contr. Cushman Lab. Foram. Res., vol. 

 1, pt. 2, 1925, p. 33, pi. 5, fig. 13. — Cushman and Laiming (part), Journ. 

 Pal., vol. 5, 1931, p. 106, pi. 11, fig. 16 (not fig. 15).— Cushman and 

 Ponton, Bull. 9, Florida Geol. Survey, 1932, p. 75. — Cushman and 

 LeRoy, Journ. Pal., vol. 12, 1938, p. 125, pi. 22, fig. 17.— Kleinpell, 

 Miocene Stratig. Calif., 1938, p. 248, pi. 7, fig. 3; pi. 15, fig. 4; pi. 16, 

 fig. 8.— Ellisor, Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petr. Geol., vol. 24, 1940, pp. 439, 

 444 (lists), pi. 4, fig. 4. — Weaver, Washington Univ. (Seattle), Publ. 

 Geol., vol. 6, 1944, p. 23 (list). — Cushman and Parker, U.S. Geol. 

 Survey Prof. Paper 210-D, 1947, p. 64, pi. 16, fig. 22. 



Test tapering, broadest part formed by the last-formed whorl, initial 

 end pointed, apertural end broadly rounded, consisting of about five 

 whorls in the adult; chambers distinct, inflated, about four to the whorl; 

 sutures distinct, depressed; wall smooth; aperture small, in a semicircular 

 depression of the apertural face, extending partially down the side of the 

 test. Length 0.45-0.50 mm ; breadth 0.25 mm. 



The types of this species are from the Miocene, Monterey shale of 

 California. It is also recorded from other members of the Miocene of 

 California, Alabama and Florida. It occurs at a number of stations in the 

 present collections. 



Stations: C-11, C-13, 55, 216, 250, 1003, 1005, 1010, 1231, 1234, 

 2095. 



Distribution. — ^These localities range from the coast of southern 

 California southward along the coast of Mexico. 



Buliminella brevier Cushman 

 Plate 29, Fig. 2 



Buliminella brevior Cushman, Contr. Cushman Lab. Foram. Res., 

 vol. 1, pt. 2, 1925, p. 33, pi, 5, fig. 14. — Kleinpell, Miocene Stratig. Calif., 

 1938, p. 247, pi. 12, fig. 10.— Hanna and Hertlein, State of Calif., Div. 

 of Mines Bull. 118, 1941, p. 180, fig. 67 (plate), fig. 22.— Cushman and 

 Parker, U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 210-D, 1947, p. 65, pi. 16, fig. 24. 



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