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Minojapanella

Classification

    Phylum:  
Protista
    Subphylum:  
Sarcodina
    Class:  
Reticularea
    Subclass:  
Granuloreticulosia
    Order:  
Foraminiferida
    Suborder:  
Fusulinina
    Superfamily:  
Fusulinacea
    Family:  
Fusulinidae
    Subfamily:  
Schubertellinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Minojapanella Fujmoto & KACTIMA, 1953, 755. p. 150
    Type Species:  
M. elongata, OD


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Fig. 304,2. *M. elongata, Chichibu Ser., 2a,c, axial secs. of holotype and topotype, X30, X40; 2b, sagittal sec. of topotype, X40; tang. sec. of paratype showing septal fluting. X150 (*1926)


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Geographic Distribution

Japan


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Perm.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Asselian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
298.89
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Perm.
    Ending International Stage:  
Changhsingian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
251.9


Description

Shell minute, highly clongate-fusiform, first 1 or 2 volutions discoidal around large, spherical proloculus and coiled at large angle to outer 5 or 6 greatly elongated, fusiform volutions, spirotheca thin, indistinct, septa closely spaced, intensely fluted throughout fusiform part of shell, axial fillings in at least outer 5 volutions but not massive: tunnel singular but not clearly defined (*755, *1926). [Shell of only known species not well preserved and poorly understood.]




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