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Dictyokathina

Classification

    Phylum:  
Protista
    Subphylum:  
Sarcodina
    Class:  
Reticularea
    Subclass:  
Granuloreticulosia
    Order:  
Foraminiferida
    Suborder:  
Rotalina
    Superfamily:  
Rotaliacea
    Family:  
Rotaliidae
    Subfamily:  
Rotaliinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Dictyokathina Smout, 1954, *1803, p. 64
    Type Species:  
D. simplex, OD


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Fig. 484,1-4. *D. simplex, Paleoc., Qatar (1,3,4), Iraq (2); 1,2, horiz. secs. of megalospheric and microspheric forms, X12, X10; 3a-e, opposite sides and edge view of paratype, X16; 4, nearly axial vert. sec. of megalo- spheric form, X25 (*1803)


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Arabia (Qatar Penin.)-Iraq


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Paleoc., ? L.Eoc.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Danian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
66.04
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Paleoc., ? L.Eoc.
    Ending International Stage:  
Ypresian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
48.07


Description

Test trochospiral, with umbilical mass containing strong vertical radial canals, as in Kathina, but with spire repeatedly doubling in plane of coiling to form multiple spire, as in Dictyoconoides, wall calcareous, radially fibrous, finely perforate and laminated, intercameral foramen an interiomarginal slit, probably representing earlier aperture




References

Smout, A. H., 1954, Lower Tertiary Foraminifera of the Qatar Peninsula: British Museum (Nat. History), London, p. 1-96, pl. 1-15. -(1804) 1955, Reclassification of the Rotaliidea (Foraminifera) and two new Cretaceous forms resembling Elphidium: Washington Acad. Sci., Jour., v. 45, no. 7, p. 201-210, fig. 1-10.-(1805) 1956, Three new Cre- taceous genera of Foraminifera related to the Ceratobuliminidae: Micropaleontology, v. 2, no. 4, p. 335-348, pl. 1-2.


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