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Brizalina
Classification
Phylum:
Protista
Subphylum:
Sarcodina
Class:
Reticularea
Subclass:
Granuloreticulosia
Order:
Foraminiferida
Suborder:
Rotalina
Superfamily:
Buliminacea
Family:
Bolivinitidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Brizalina COSTA, 1856, *392, p. 296
Type Species:
B. aenariensis, OD(M)
Images
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Fig. 434,5, 436,1. *B. aenariensis, Rec., Ire. (434,5), Plio., Italy (436,1), 434,5 a, b, side and apert. views, X75 (*472), 436,1a,b, holotype, side, edge views, approx. X60 (*700). -- Fig. 434,6. B. sp. cf. B. vadescens (Cushman), Rec., Sweden, 6a, b, side view and edge view showing projecting tooth plate, X140 (*924). -- Fig. 436,2. B. pseudopunctata (Höglund), Rec., Sweden, 2a, optical sec. of apert. end showing internal tooth plate in alternating arrangement, 2b, transv. sec. of final chamber through aperture showing U-shaped sec. of tooth plate fastened at one border to chamber wall, X500 (*924).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
cosmop.
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Trias.
Beginning International Stage:
Carnian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
237
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Rec.
Ending International Stage:
Meghalayan
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
0
Description
Test elongate, tapering, commonly compressed and laterally carinate, biserial throughout, lacking basal chamber lobes, crenulations or retral processes of Bolivina but having straight or curved, commonly limbate sutures, wall calcareous, perforate, radially built, with ornamentation consisting of variously arranged pores, longitudinal costae, carinae, and marginal or apical chamber spines, aperture loop-shaped, extending up from base of final chamber, with tooth plate as in Bolivina.
References
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Classification
Phylum:
Protista
Subphylum:
Sarcodina
Class:
Reticularea
Subclass:
Granuloreticulosia
Order:
Foraminiferida
Suborder:
Rotalina
Superfamily:
Buliminacea
Family:
Bolivinitidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Brizalina COSTA, 1856, *392, p. 296
Type Species:
B. aenariensis, OD(M)
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 434,5, 436,1. *B. aenariensis, Rec., Ire. (434,5), Plio., Italy (436,1), 434,5 a, b, side and apert. views, X75 (*472), 436,1a,b, holotype, side, edge views, approx. X60 (*700). -- Fig. 434,6. B. sp. cf. B. vadescens (Cushman), Rec., Sweden, 6a, b, side view and edge view showing projecting tooth plate, X140 (*924). -- Fig. 436,2. B. pseudopunctata (Höglund), Rec., Sweden, 2a, optical sec. of apert. end showing internal tooth plate in alternating arrangement, 2b, transv. sec. of final chamber through aperture showing U-shaped sec. of tooth plate fastened at one border to chamber wall, X500 (*924).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
cosmop.
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Trias.
Beginning International Stage:
Carnian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
237
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Rec.
Ending International Stage:
Meghalayan
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
0
Description
Test elongate, tapering, commonly compressed and laterally carinate, biserial throughout, lacking basal chamber lobes, crenulations or retral processes of Bolivina but having straight or curved, commonly limbate sutures, wall calcareous, perforate, radially built, with ornamentation consisting of variously arranged pores, longitudinal costae, carinae, and marginal or apical chamber spines, aperture loop-shaped, extending up from base of final chamber, with tooth plate as in Bolivina.