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Planomalina

Classification

    Phylum:  
Protista
    Subphylum:  
Sarcodina
    Class:  
Reticularea
    Subclass:  
Granuloreticulosia
    Order:  
Foraminiferida
    Suborder:  
Rotalina
    Superfamily:  
Globigerinacea
    Family:  
Planomalinidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Planomalina Loeblich & TAPPAN, 1946, *1154, p. 257
    Type Species:  
P. apsidostroba Loeblich & Tappan, 1946, = Plantulina buxtorfi GANDOLFI, 1942, *768, p. 103, OD


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Fossil Image
Fig. 526,1. P. buxtorfi (Gandolfi), L.Cret.(Alb.), USA(Tex.)l 1a,b, side, edge views of holotype of P. apsidostroba, X84 (*164).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

N. Am. - Eu.-Carib.-N.Afr.-Pak.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Cret.(Alb.)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Albian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
113.2
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U. Cret.(Cenoman.)
    Ending International Stage:  
Cenomanian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
93.9


Description

Test free, planispiral, biumbilicate, involute to partially evolute, lobulate in outline, chambers angular-rhomboid, sutures radial, curved, elevated, wall calcareous, finely perforate, radial in structure, test ornamented by keel and thickened and nodose sutures, aperture an interiomarginal, equatorial arch, with opening extending back at either side to septum at base of chamber, lateral umbilical portions of successive apertures remaining open as supplementary relict apertures, each with remnant of bordering apertural lip.




References

Lister, Gulielma, , \& Tappan, Helen, 1946, New Washita Foraminifera: Jour. Paleontology, v. 20, p. 238-258, pl. 35-37, 4 text-fig.(1155) 1949, New Kansas Lower Cretaceous Foraminifera: Washington Acad. Sci., Jour., v. 39, no. 3, p. 90-92.--(1156) 1949, Foraminifera from the Walnut Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of northern Texas and Southern Oklahoma: Jour. Paleontology, v. 23, no. 3, p. 245-266, pl. 46-51-(1157) 1950, North American lurassic Foraminifera II: characteristic western interior Callowian species: Washington Acad. Sci., Jour., v. 40, no. 1, p. 5-19, pl. 1. -(1158), 1952, Cribrotextularia, a new foraminiteral genus from the Eocene of Florida: Same, v. 42, no. 3, p. 79-81, fig. 1-5.(1159) 1952, Adercotryma, a new Recent foraminiferal genus from the Arctic: Same, v. 42, no. 5, p. 141-142, text-fig. 1-4.-(1160) 1952, Poritextularia, a new Recent foraminiferal genus: Same, v. 42, no. 8, p. 264-266, textfig. 1-3.-(1161) 1952, The foraminiferal genus Triplasia Reuss, 1854: Smithsonian Misc. Coll., v. 117, no. 15, p. 1-61, pl. 1-8. (1162) 1953, Studies of Arctic Foraminifera: Same, v. 121, no. 7, p. 1-150, pl. 1-24.(1163) 1953, Olssonina Bermúdez, 1949 for Cribrotextularia Loeblich and Tappan, 1952: Micropaleontologist, v. 7, no. 2, p. 44-45. (1164) 1954, The type species of Bulbophragmium Maync, 1952: Same, v. 8, no. 4, p. 32-33.


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