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Brevaxina

Classification

    Phylum:  
Protista
    Subphylum:  
Sarcodina
    Class:  
Reticularea
    Subclass:  
Granuloreticulosia
    Order:  
Foraminiferida
    Suborder:  
Fusulinina
    Superfamily:  
Fusulinacea
    Family:  
Verbeekinidae
    Subfamily:  
Verbeekininae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Brevaxina Schenck & Thompson, 1940, *1646, p. 587
    Type Species:  
Doliolina compressa DEPRAT, 1915, *587A, p. 14, OD


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Fig. 323,2. *B. compressa (DEPRAT), Laos (Cammon); 2a, sagittal sec. of paratype, X 12; 2b, axial sec. of holotype, X12 (*1922).


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Geographic Distribution

Asia(Laos-USSR)


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 small, subspherical, axis of coiling in shortest diameter through proloculus, polar ends deeply umbilicate, spirotheca thick, with structure as in Misellina, parachomata high, extending more than half height of chambers, foramina circular in section, located near lower part of chamber, numerous (as many as 24) in last volution (*1646).




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