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Palaeotextularia

Classification

    Phylum:  
Protista
    Subphylum:  
Sarcodina
    Class:  
Reticularea
    Subclass:  
Granuloreticulosia
    Order:  
Foraminiferida
    Suborder:  
Fusulinina
    Superfamily:  
Endothyracea
    Family:  
Palaeotextulariidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Palaeotextularia Schubert, 1921, *1694, p. 183, 185
    Type Species:  
P. schellwieni Galloway & Rynicker, 1930, *765, p. 20, =Textularia textulariformis (Möller) Schellwien, 1898, *1644, p. 268 (non Cribrostomum textulariforme Möller, 1879), SD Galloway & RYNICKER, 1930, *765, p. 20


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Fossil Image
Fig. 249,1,2. P. grahamensis (Cushman & Waters), Penn., USA (Okla.), 1a-c, side, edge, and top views, X35, 2 , portion of long. axial sec. showing 2 layers of wall, X110 (*765).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Eu.-N.Am.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Carb.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Tournaisian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
359.3
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Perm.
    Ending International Stage:  
Changhsingian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
251.9


Description

Test free, biserial, as in Textularia, but with double-layered calcareous wall, outer finely granular layer and inner radial fibrous layer, and may have small amounts of embedded adventitious material in outer layer, aperture an interiomarginal arch.




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