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Amphicoryna

Classification

    Phylum:  
Protista
    Subphylum:  
Sarcodina
    Class:  
Reticularea
    Subclass:  
Granuloreticulosia
    Order:  
Foraminiferida
    Suborder:  
Rotalina
    Superfamily:  
Nodosariacea
    Family:  
Nodosariidae
    Subfamily:  
Nodosariinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Amphicoryna SCHLUMBERGER in MILNE-EDWARDS, 1881, *1285, p. 881
    Type Species:  
Marginttlina falx JONES & PARKER, 1860, '998, p. 302; SD (SM) BRADY, 1884, *200, p. 556, =Natttilus sealaris BATSCH, 1791, *102, p. 1, 4


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Fossil Image
Fig. 40 I ,1. *A. scalaris (BATSCH). Rec., Syra Arch., Medit.; 1a,b, side, dorsal views, X46 (*2117). --Fig. 401,2. A. separans (BRADY), Rec., Pac.; X17 (*2117).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

cosmop.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Mio.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Aquitanian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
23.04
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Rec.
    Ending International Stage:  
Meghalayan
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
0


Description

Test free, elongate, early chambers compressed, in microspheric form arranged in loose coil as in Astacolus, later development uniserial; su tures oblique and flush in early stages, later constricted and horizontal; wall smooth or longitudinally costate; aperture terminal, radiate, at end of distinct neck.




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