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Choffatella
Classification
Phylum:
Protista
Subphylum:
Sarcodina
Class:
Reticularea
Subclass:
Granuloreticulosia
Order:
Foraminiferida
Suborder:
Textulariina
Superfamily:
Lituolacea
Family:
Lituolidae
Subfamily:
Cyclamminae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Choffatella Schlumberger, 1905, *1665, p. 763
Type Species:
C. decipiens, OD
Images
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Fig. 143,3-6. *c. decipiens; Port. (3), Venez. (4,6), Switz. (5); 3 a, b, side and edge views of paratype, matrix attached to one side, × 24 (*2117), 4, tang. sec., 5, median sec., microspheric, 6, equat. sec., megalospheric, 4-6, × 30 (*1239)
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Medit.-USA-Mex.-Carib.-S. Am.(Venez.)-Afr.-W.Eu.
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
L.Cret.
Beginning International Stage:
Berriasian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
143.1
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
L.Cret.
Ending International Stage:
Albian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
100.5
Description
Test planispiral, involute, chambers numerous, broad and low, tending to increase in breadth somewhat in adult so that whorls are higher, wall with imperforate outer layer and alveolar inner layer, regularly spaced partitions, aperture linear series of pores in slight depression extending vertically up apertural face.
References
Schlumberger, Charles, , \& Douvillé, Henri, 1905, Sur deux Foraminifères Eocènes, Dictyoconus egyptiensis Chapm. et Lituonella roberti, nov.gen. et sp.: Soc. géol. France, Bull., ser. 4, v. 5, no. 3, p. 291-304, pl. 9.
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Protista
Subphylum:
Sarcodina
Class:
Reticularea
Subclass:
Granuloreticulosia
Order:
Foraminiferida
Suborder:
Textulariina
Superfamily:
Lituolacea
Family:
Lituolidae
Subfamily:
Cyclamminae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Choffatella Schlumberger, 1905, *1665, p. 763
Type Species:
C. decipiens, OD
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 143,3-6. *c. decipiens; Port. (3), Venez. (4,6), Switz. (5); 3 a, b, side and edge views of paratype, matrix attached to one side, × 24 (*2117), 4, tang. sec., 5, median sec., microspheric, 6, equat. sec., megalospheric, 4-6, × 30 (*1239)
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Medit.-USA-Mex.-Carib.-S. Am.(Venez.)-Afr.-W.Eu.
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
L.Cret.
Beginning International Stage:
Berriasian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
143.1
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
L.Cret.
Ending International Stage:
Albian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
100.5
Description
Test planispiral, involute, chambers numerous, broad and low, tending to increase in breadth somewhat in adult so that whorls are higher, wall with imperforate outer layer and alveolar inner layer, regularly spaced partitions, aperture linear series of pores in slight depression extending vertically up apertural face.
References
Schlumberger, Charles, , \& Douvillé, Henri, 1905, Sur deux Foraminifères Eocènes, Dictyoconus egyptiensis Chapm. et Lituonella roberti, nov.gen. et sp.: Soc. géol. France, Bull., ser. 4, v. 5, no. 3, p. 291-304, pl. 9.