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Boultonia

Classification

    Phylum:  
Protista
    Subphylum:  
Sarcodina
    Class:  
Reticularea
    Subclass:  
Granuloreticulosia
    Order:  
Foraminiferida
    Suborder:  
Fusulinina
    Superfamily:  
Fusulinacea
    Family:  
Fusulinidae
    Subfamily:  
Schubertellinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Boultonia LEE, 1927, *1119, p. 10
    Type Species:  
B. willsi, OD


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Fig. 302,2a. *B. willsi, L.Perm. (Taiyuan Ser.), N.China, axial sec. of holotype, X53 (*1922). --Fig. 302,2b,c. B. guadalupensis Skinyer & Wilde, L.Perm. (Parafusulina Z., Bone Spring Ls.), USA(Tex.), 2 b, axial sec. of holotype, X40, 2c, sagittal sec. of paratype, X40 (*1795).


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Geographic Distribution

Asia (China-Cambodia), Europe (Austria), USA (Washington-Nevada-Texas)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Perm.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Asselian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
298.89
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Perm.
    Ending International Stage:  
Changhsingian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
251.9


Description

Shell minute, elongate-fusiform, first 1 or 2 volutions discoidal, coiled at large angle to outer fusiform volutions, spirotheca of tectum and faintly porous lower layer, septa fluted throughout, chomata asymmetrical throughout fusiform part of the shell. (*1119, *l795).




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