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Globivalvulina

Classification

    Phylum:  
Protista
    Subphylum:  
Sarcodina
    Class:  
Reticularea
    Subclass:  
Granuloreticulosia
    Order:  
Foraminiferida
    Suborder:  
Fusulinina
    Superfamily:  
Endothyracea
    Family:  
Biseriamminidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Globivalvulina Schubert, 1921, *1694, p. 153
    Type Species:  
Valvulina bulloides BRADY, 1876, *193, p. 89, OD


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Fig. 255,1,2. *G. bulloides (Brady), U.Penn., USA(Iowa), 1a-c, opposite sides and edge of syntype, X93, 2, sec. of syntype, redrawn (BMNH-P35518, *193, pl. 4, fig. 14), X79 (*2117).


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Geographic Distribution

N.Am.-Eu.-C.Asia


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Penn.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Kasimovian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
307.02
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Perm.
    Ending International Stage:  
Changhsingian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
251.9


Description

Test free, subglobular to hemispherical when somewhat flattened on broad apertural face, chambers biserially arranged with axis of biseriality planispirally to slightly trochospirally coiled, wall calcareous, microgranular, may have inner fibrous or porous layer particularly well developed along septa, aperture interiomarginal against opposite, penultimate chamber, partially covered by valvular projection extending toward opposite chamber near center of apertural face, commonly overlapping aperture of penultimate chamber. [GlobivalvuIina differs from Biseriammina in being more advanced, with an apertural valvular projection.]




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