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Palaeofusulina

Classification

    Phylum:  
Protista
    Subphylum:  
Sarcodina
    Class:  
Reticularea
    Subclass:  
Granuloreticulosia
    Order:  
Foraminiferida
    Suborder:  
Fusulinina
    Superfamily:  
Fusulinacea
    Family:  
Fusulinidae
    Subfamily:  
Fusulininae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Palaeofusulina Deprat, 1912, *585, p. 1548
    Type Species:  
P. prisca Deprat, 1913, *586, p. 37 (=Fusulina pseudo-prisca COLANI, 1924, *354, p. 79), SD (SM)


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Fig. 308,2. *P. pseudoprisca (Colani), "French Indochina"(Lang-nac), 2 a, centered axial sec., X20, 2 b, sagittal sec., X20, 2c, axial sec. tangent to proloculus, X20 (*354), 2 d, axial sec. of holotype of P. pseudoprisca (Colani), seemingly retouched, X25 (*1922).


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Geographic Distribution

Asia(Caucasia-"French Indochina"-China)-Japan-Malay Arch. (Timor)


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 small, inflated-subcylindrical to fusiform, spirotheca consisting of single dense layer, septa narrowly and highly fluted throughout (*354, *585, *586, *1137, *1728, *1922).




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