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Fabiania
Classification
Phylum:
Protista
Subphylum:
Sarcodina
Class:
Reticularea
Subclass:
Granuloreticulosia
Order:
Foraminiferida
Suborder:
Rotalina
Superfamily:
Orbitoidacea
Family:
Cymbaloporidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Fabiania A. Silvestri, 1924, *1778, p. 7
Type Species:
Patella (Cymbiola) cassis OPPENHEIM, 1896, *1390, p. 55, 56, OD
Images
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Fig. 574,3-5. *F. cassis (OPPENHEIM), Auvers., Italy (3), Lutet., Italy (4,5); 3, ext., X13; 4, horiz. sec., X24
(*1781); 5, tang. vert. sec., X12 (*1781). -- Fig. 574,6,7. F. cubensis (CUSHMAN & BERMUDEZ), Cuba; 6, horiz. sec. enlarged; 7, axial sec., X 41 (*370)
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Eu.-Japan-Carib.(Cuba)-Pac. O.
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Eoc.
Beginning International Stage:
Ypresian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
56
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Eoc.
Ending International Stage:
Priabonian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
33.9
Description
Test of regular or flattened conical form with bluntly rounded apex; early stage of 3 simple globose chambers with basal aperture and thickened perforate wall, later chambers in cyclical series or tiers, area just beneath external wall subdivided by horizontal and vertical partitions forming coarse alveoli, which again are subdivided by thinner, shorter partitions into 2 or 3 smaller alveoli; sutures of chamber tiers visible externally but alveolar walls less distinct except on abraded specimens; wall calcareous, thick, bilamellar, outer wall coarsely perforate, wall of umbilical side and partitions imperforate.
References
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Protista
Subphylum:
Sarcodina
Class:
Reticularea
Subclass:
Granuloreticulosia
Order:
Foraminiferida
Suborder:
Rotalina
Superfamily:
Orbitoidacea
Family:
Cymbaloporidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Fabiania A. Silvestri, 1924, *1778, p. 7
Type Species:
Patella (Cymbiola) cassis OPPENHEIM, 1896, *1390, p. 55, 56, OD
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 574,3-5. *F. cassis (OPPENHEIM), Auvers., Italy (3), Lutet., Italy (4,5); 3, ext., X13; 4, horiz. sec., X24
(*1781); 5, tang. vert. sec., X12 (*1781). -- Fig. 574,6,7. F. cubensis (CUSHMAN & BERMUDEZ), Cuba; 6, horiz. sec. enlarged; 7, axial sec., X 41 (*370)
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Eu.-Japan-Carib.(Cuba)-Pac. O.
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Eoc.
Beginning International Stage:
Ypresian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
56
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Eoc.
Ending International Stage:
Priabonian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
33.9
Description
Test of regular or flattened conical form with bluntly rounded apex; early stage of 3 simple globose chambers with basal aperture and thickened perforate wall, later chambers in cyclical series or tiers, area just beneath external wall subdivided by horizontal and vertical partitions forming coarse alveoli, which again are subdivided by thinner, shorter partitions into 2 or 3 smaller alveoli; sutures of chamber tiers visible externally but alveolar walls less distinct except on abraded specimens; wall calcareous, thick, bilamellar, outer wall coarsely perforate, wall of umbilical side and partitions imperforate.