Most foraminiferal research is founded on sound taxonomy. To clearly communicate such research, similar species concepts and consistent use of names is desirable. As a contribution to this larger goal, the World Foraminifera Database (http://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera) was set up in 2010 as a subset within the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). The purpose is to provide an authoritative, open-access inventory of all foraminiferal taxonomic names. The inventory is almost complete for both fossil and Recent foraminiferal taxa, containing 4932 generic and 55,884 species (including infraspecies) names. There are ∼61,000 genus-species combinations of which ∼54,600 are currently “accepted” species and infraspecies (with 9600 extant). Associated data includes 14,700 linked foraminiferal literature sources, ∼6600 images, and species-level links to many other databases and images, such as the Cushman Collection (Smithsonian Institution), American Museum of Natural History, Mikrotax (planktic foraminifera), GenBank, and Zootaxon. The WoRMS database is owned by the global taxonomic community and hosted and serviced by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium. We recommend that all researchers working with foraminifera both use and contribute to the World Foraminifera Database, as that will improve the accuracy of the database's content and save investigators many hours of searching elsewhere.

The Carboniferous foraminifera are composed of representatives of three classes: Fusulinata, Miliolata and Nodosariata. Despite ample literature on Paleozoic Allogromiata and Textulariata, the real presence of these classes remains questionable during the Carboniferous and are thus excluded herein. The main biostratigraphical markers belong to the superfamilies Archaediscoidea, Lasiodiscoidea and Bradyinoidea; even if many genera among the archaediscoids have still a controversial nomenclature, as well as some lasiodiscids and bradyinoids. Secondary biostratigraphical markers belong to Lituotubelloidea (= “Tournayelloidea” of the authors), Endothyroidea and Loeblichioidea (these latter giving rise to the primitive Fusulinida). The Miliolata appear at the Visean/Serpukhovian boundary interval. The typical Carboniferous miliolates are primitive nubeculariins and cornuspirinins. Tubiphytids might be miliolate and cyanobacterium consortia, derived from the nubeculariin Palaeonubecularia. The most primitive nodosariates (syzraniids) appear in the Moscovian; and gave rise, in the latest Carboniferous, to Protonodosaria, Nodosinelloides, and possibly Polarisella, Paravervilleina and oldest Geinitzinoidea. Palaeobiological data are mainly provided by the genera Bradyina, Tetrataxis and Climacammina. Palaeobiogeographical distributions of Pojarkovella, Janischewskina, Eosigmoilina, Brenckleina, Spireitlina, Hemigordius and Syzrania testify to the successive foraminiferal migrations between Palaeotethys, Ural and Panthalassan oceans. Two taxa are created: Eoparastaffellidae and Banffellinae.

It is replaced here by Solovievaia Vachard and Le Coze nomen novum. Following this nomenclatural modification, a revision of this profusulinellid genus is proposed.

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