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Baggina
Classification
Phylum:
Protista
Subphylum:
Sarcodina
Class:
Reticularea
Subclass:
Granuloreticulosia
Order:
Foraminiferida
Suborder:
Rotalina
Superfamily:
Discorbbacea
Family:
Discorbidae
Subfamily:
Baggininae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Baggina CUSHMAN, 1926, *426, p. 63
Type Species:
*B. californica, OD
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Fig. 462,1. *B. californica, Mio., USA(Calif.), 1a-c, opposite sides and edge view of paratype, X56 (*2117).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
cosmop.
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Cret.
Beginning International Stage:
Berriasian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
143.1
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Rec.
Ending International Stage:
Meghalayan
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
0
Description
Test free, subglobular, trochospiral, chambers few, rapidly enlarging and somewhat overlapping on spiral side, with closed umbilicus on opposite side, wall calcareous, perforate, radial in structure, aperture a broad umbilical opening below clear, nonperforate lunate area in face of final chamber. [Baggina differs from Cancris in having an open aperture without a lip, and in being somewhat involute on the spiral side. ]
References
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Classification
Phylum:
Protista
Subphylum:
Sarcodina
Class:
Reticularea
Subclass:
Granuloreticulosia
Order:
Foraminiferida
Suborder:
Rotalina
Superfamily:
Discorbbacea
Family:
Discorbidae
Subfamily:
Baggininae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Baggina CUSHMAN, 1926, *426, p. 63
Type Species:
*B. californica, OD
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 462,1. *B. californica, Mio., USA(Calif.), 1a-c, opposite sides and edge view of paratype, X56 (*2117).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
cosmop.
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Cret.
Beginning International Stage:
Berriasian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
143.1
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Rec.
Ending International Stage:
Meghalayan
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
0
Description
Test free, subglobular, trochospiral, chambers few, rapidly enlarging and somewhat overlapping on spiral side, with closed umbilicus on opposite side, wall calcareous, perforate, radial in structure, aperture a broad umbilical opening below clear, nonperforate lunate area in face of final chamber. [Baggina differs from Cancris in having an open aperture without a lip, and in being somewhat involute on the spiral side. ]