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Test short and broad, fusiform, the last-formed whorl making up 

 about three-fourths of the test; chambers distinct, inflated, about five to 

 the whorl ; sutures distinct, depressed ; wall smooth ; aperture in a narrow 

 depression of the apertural face and extends down the side of the test. 

 Length up to 0.50 mm ; breadth 0.30 mm. 



The types are from the Miocene, Montere}'^ shale of California and it 

 is also recorded from the upper Zemorrian to the lower Delmontian in 

 the California Miocene. 



Recent specimens in the present collections seem typical. 



Stations: C-11, 55,67,2151, 2153. 



Distribution. — These stations range from the coast of California 

 north of Los Angeles southward along the coast of Mexico. 



Buliminella bassendorfensis Cushman and Parker 

 Plate 29, Fig. 3 



Buliminella bassendorfensis Cushman and Parker, Contr. Cushman 

 Lab. Foram. Res., vol. 13, 1937, pp. 40, 53, pi. 4, fig. 13; U.S. Geol. 

 Survey Prof. Paper 210-D, 1947, p. 66, pi. 17, fig. 6. 



Test elongate, somewhat fusiform, the greatest diameter toward the 

 apertural end, 2^ to 3 times as long as broad, consisting of about five 

 whorls; chambers distinct, somewhat inflated, about four to a whorl; 

 sutures distinct, depressed ; wall smooth, sometimes with very fine spines 

 near the base of the test; aperture a rounded, loop-shaped opening near 

 the top of the very short and narrow apertural face. Length 0.70 mm; 

 breadth 0.20 mm. 



The types of this species are from the Miocene, south side of Alsea 

 Bay, Lincoln Co., Oregon, and it has not been recorded elsewhere. 



Our Recent specimens have been compared with the types and seem 

 identical. 



Stations: C-11, 55, 339, 1068, 1243, 2014. 



Distribution. — These stations range from the coast of California 

 southward along the coast of Mexico. 



Buliminella elegantissima (d'Orbigny) 

 Plate 29, Fig. 4 



Bulimina elegantissima d'Orbigny, Voy. Amer. Merid., vol. 5, pt. 5, 

 "Foraminiferes," 1839, p. 51, pi. 7, figs. 13, 14.— Williamson, Rec. 

 Foram. Gt. Britain, 1858, p. 64, pi. 5, figs. 134, 135. — Schlumberger, 

 Feuille Jeunes Nat., vol. 12, 1881, pi. 1, fig. 14.— H. B. Brady, Rep. 



