Abstract
The first foraminifera fossils with a hard shell to appear in the fossil record are the unilocular, simple agglutinated Allogromiina. The lagenine foraminifera (with walls made of orientated calcite crystals) evolved in the Silurian, but did not show significant evolutionary diversity until the Moscovian–Kasimovian interval in the Carboniferous. chapter discusses the only truly large Palaeozoic foraminifera, the suborder Fusulinina. Members of this suborder evolved from the Allogromiina in the Silurian, with first the appearance of the Parathuramminoidea and subsequently the Moravamminoidea. The chapter presents the main features of the taxonomy of the Fusulinina, Lagenina, Involutinina, and Miliolina suborders. The chapter also discusses the biostratigraphic significance and phylogentic evolution of the geologically most important fusulinines. The chapter presents a review of their palaeoecological significance and their palaeogeographic distribution during the Palaeozoic.
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