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Brunsia

Classification

    Phylum:  
Protista
    Subphylum:  
Sarcodina
    Class:  
Reticularea
    Subclass:  
Granuloreticulosia
    Order:  
Foraminiferida
    Suborder:  
Fusulinina
    Superfamily:  
Endothyracea
    Family:  
Archaediscidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Brunsia MIKHAYLOV, 1939, *1260, p. 58
    Type Species:  
Spirillina irregularis von MÖLLER, 1879, *1295, p. 41, OD


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Fig. 272,5. B. plana (Miklukho-Maklay), Pamir region, axial sec. of holotype, X100 (*1266). --Fig. 272,6. B. incerta (Grozdilova & Lebedeva), Baskir region, holotype, X100 (*1509). --Fig. 272,7,8. B. pulchra Mikhaylov, Ukraine, equat. and axial secs., X100 (*1509). --Fig. 272,9. *B. irregularis (von Möller), holotype, X135 (*700). --Fig. 272,10,11. B. spirillinoides (Rauzer-Chernousova), Kazakh., 10, axial sec. of holotype, 11, equat. sec. of paratype, X75 (*1505). --Fig. 272,12. B. pamirensis (A. D. Miklukho-Maklay), Visean, Pamir region, holotype, horiz. sec., X180 (*1274)


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Eu.(USSR), Asia(USSR)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Carb.(Visean)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Visean
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
346.73
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Carb.(Namur.)
    Ending International Stage:  
Bashkirian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
48.4
    Ending Date:  
319.4


Description

Test discoidal, consisting of proloculus followed by coiled nonseptate tubular chamber, which in early stage is plectogyral as in Archaediscus and in later stage is planispiral, wall calcareous, perforate, without lateral thickening, aperture at open end of tubular chamber.




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