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Keramosphaera
Classification
Phylum:
Protista
Subphylum:
Sarcodina
Class:
Reticularea
Subclass:
Granuloreticulosia
Order:
Foraminiferida
Suborder:
Miliolina
Superfamily:
Miliolacea
Family:
Soritidae
Subfamily:
Keramosphaerinae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Keramosphaera BRADY, 1882, *198, p. 242
Type Species:
K. murrayi, OD (M)
Images
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Fig. 390,1. *K. murrayi, SW.Australia, 1a, ext., holotype, X25 (*2117), 1b, part of median sec., X50 (*198).-Fig. 390,2. K. fallax (Rhumbler), S.Atl., ext., X218 (*1572a)."
Synonyms
Orbulinaria
Geographic Distribution
S.Atl.-W.Pac.-N.Sea
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Rec.
Beginning International Stage:
Greenlandian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
0.01
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Rec.
Ending International Stage:
Meghalayan
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
0
Description
Test free, spherical, up to 2.5 mm in diameter, with numerous somewhat inflated chamberlets of irregular outline added in concentric spherical series, chamberlets of each layer with short lateral stolons for intercommunication, chamberlets of successive layers neither directly superposed nor regularly alternating in position, apertures consisting of pore at margin of each chamberlet, previous apertures serving for in tercameral connections between chamberlets of successive layers.
References
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Classification
Phylum:
Protista
Subphylum:
Sarcodina
Class:
Reticularea
Subclass:
Granuloreticulosia
Order:
Foraminiferida
Suborder:
Miliolina
Superfamily:
Miliolacea
Family:
Soritidae
Subfamily:
Keramosphaerinae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Keramosphaera BRADY, 1882, *198, p. 242
Type Species:
K. murrayi, OD (M)
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 390,1. *K. murrayi, SW.Australia, 1a, ext., holotype, X25 (*2117), 1b, part of median sec., X50 (*198).-Fig. 390,2. K. fallax (Rhumbler), S.Atl., ext., X218 (*1572a)."
Synonyms
Orbulinaria
Geographic Distribution
S.Atl.-W.Pac.-N.Sea
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Rec.
Beginning International Stage:
Greenlandian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
0.01
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Rec.
Ending International Stage:
Meghalayan
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
0
Description
Test free, spherical, up to 2.5 mm in diameter, with numerous somewhat inflated chamberlets of irregular outline added in concentric spherical series, chamberlets of each layer with short lateral stolons for intercommunication, chamberlets of successive layers neither directly superposed nor regularly alternating in position, apertures consisting of pore at margin of each chamberlet, previous apertures serving for in tercameral connections between chamberlets of successive layers.