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Bolivinopsis

Classification

    Phylum:  
Protista
    Subphylum:  
Sarcodina
    Class:  
Reticularea
    Subclass:  
Granuloreticulosia
    Order:  
Foraminiferida
    Suborder:  
Textulariina
    Superfamily:  
Lituolacea
    Family:  
Textulariidae
    Subfamily:  
Spiroplectammininae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Bolivinopsis Yakovlev, 1891, *2095, p. 349
    Type Species:  
B. capitata, OD


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Fig. 163,3. *B. capitata, USSR; X 120 (*1197). --Fig. 163,4. B. romla (EHRENBERG), USA(Miss.); X39 (*484).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Eu.-N.Am.- S.Am


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Cret.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Cenomanian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
100.5
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Cret.
    Ending International Stage:  
Maastrichtian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
66.04


Description

Test with large planispiral coil in early stage and later long, narrow biserial stage, similar in plan to Spiroplectammina; wall calcareous, possibly of agglutinated fine-grained calcareous particles.




References

Yakovlev, V., 1891, Opisanie neskol'kikh vidov melovykh foraminifer: Khar'kovsk. Obshch. Ispyt., Prirody, Trudy, v. 24 (1820) Sowerby, James, \& Sowerby, James de, , p. 341-364, pl. 1-3. [Description of some species of Cretaceous Foraminifera.] Yokoyamo, Matajiro, 1890, Foraminiferen aus dem Kalksteine von Torinosu und Kompira in Naumann, E., \& Neumayr, M., Zur Geologie und Paläeontologie von Japan: K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-naturwiss. Cl., Denkschrift., v. 57, p. 26-27, pl. 5.


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