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Hanzawaia

Classification

    Phylum:  
Protista
    Subphylum:  
Sarcodina
    Class:  
Reticularea
    Subclass:  
Granuloreticulosia
    Order:  
Foraminiferida
    Suborder:  
Rotalina
    Superfamily:  
Cassidulinacea
    Family:  
Anomalinidae
    Subfamily:  
Anomalininae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Hanzawaia ASANO, 1944, *50, p. 98
    Type Species:  
H. nipponica, OD


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Fossil Image
Fig. 623,1,2. *H. nipponica, Plio., Japan, 1, evolute side of topotype, 2 a-c, opp. sides and edge view of hypotype, X41 (*2117)


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

cosmop.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Mio.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Aquitanian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
23.04
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Rec.
    Ending International Stage:  
Meghalayan
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
0


Description

Test free, trochoid, plano-convex, periphery moderately angled with keel, flattened side partially involute with elevated flaps on lower margin of chamber partially or completely overlapping chambers of previous whorl and commonly coalescing over entire central area, opposite side involute but without open umbilicus, central area with clear boss, sutures strongly curved, thickened, wall calcareous, granular in microstructure, rather coarsely perforate except for clear area above aperture, central flaps of spiral side and thickened sutures and keel, all of which are of clear, apparently solid, calcite, aperture an arch on periphery, extending somewhat onto convex involute side but also laterally continuous with opening on flattened side, under central flap of final chamber, with supplementary openings under umbilical flaps, both on their outer and inner margins.




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