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Gyroidinoides

Classification

    Phylum:  
Protista
    Subphylum:  
Sarcodina
    Class:  
Reticularea
    Subclass:  
Granuloreticulosia
    Order:  
Foraminiferida
    Suborder:  
Rotalina
    Superfamily:  
Cassidulinacea
    Family:  
Osangulariidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Gyroidinoides BROTZEN, 1942, *240, p. 19
    Type Species:  
Rotalina nitida Reuss, 1844, *1537, p. 21, OD


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Fossil Image
Fig. 615,6. *G. nitida (Reuss), U. Cret.(Turon.), Sweden, 6a-c, opp. sides and edge view, X74 (*2117).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

cosmop.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Cret.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Berriasian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
143.1
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Rec.
    Ending International Stage:  
Meghalayan
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
0


Description

Test free, trochospiral, spiral side flattened, umbilical side elevated, periphery rounded, chambers rhomboidal in section, sutures radial to curved, flush to depressed; wall calcareous, perforate, bilamellar, granular in structure; aperture a continuous, low, interiomarginal slit extending from periphery to umbilicus, umbilical portion partially obscured by umbilical flap from each chamber.




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