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Pseudochrysalidina

Classification

    Phylum:  
Protista
    Subphylum:  
Sarcodina
    Class:  
Reticularea
    Subclass:  
Granuloreticulosia
    Order:  
Foraminiferida
    Suborder:  
Textulariina
    Superfamily:  
Lituolacea
    Family:  
Ataxophragmiidae
    Subfamily:  
Ataxophragmiinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Pseudochrysalidina COLE, 1941, *357, p. 35
    Type Species:  
P. floridana, OD


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Fig. 196,1,2. *P. floridana, M.Eoc., USA(Fla.), 1 a, b, side, top views of paratype, X33 (*2117), 2, long. sec. showing internal vertical pillars, X29 (*357).


Synonyms

Pseudogoesella


Geographic Distribution

Carib. (Cuba)-USA (Fla.) - W. Indies (Dominican Rep.)-Arabia(Qatar Penin.)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Cret.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Berriasian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
143.1
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Eoc.
    Ending International Stage:  
Priabonian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
33.9


Description

Test high trochospiral, with gradual reduction in number of chambers to whorl, later portion tending to become biserial, wall agglutinated, may be of calcareous particles, interior with vertical pillars subdividing central area of chambers, aperture interiomarginal in early stage, cribrate over terminal surface in adult. [Pseudogoesella was shown by BERMúDEZ (1949, ·124, p. 100) to be a synonym of Pselldochrysalidina.]




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