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Pseudocyclammina

Classification

    Phylum:  
Protista
    Subphylum:  
Sarcodina
    Class:  
Reticularea
    Subclass:  
Granuloreticulosia
    Order:  
Foraminiferida
    Suborder:  
Textulariina
    Superfamily:  
Lituolacea
    Family:  
Lituolidae
    Subfamily:  
Cyclamminae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Pseudocyclammina Yabe & Hanzawa, 1926, *2091, p. 10
    Type Species:  
Cyclammina lituus Yokoyama, 1890, *2096, p. 26, OD


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Fossil Image
Fig. 145,4-6. *. Lituus (Yokoyama), U.Jur.(Kimmeridg.), Japan (5,6), U.Jur.(Kimmeridg.-Portland.), Pol. (4), 4, side view, *, median sec., *, equat. sec., * (all *1247).


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Geographic Distribution

Japan, Eu., Carib., Malay Arch.(Sumatra)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Jur.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Oxfordian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
161.53
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Cret.(Santon.)
    Ending International Stage:  
Santonian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
83.65


Description

Test enrolled in early stage, later uncoiling as in Lituola, but with irregular reticulate outer layer and thick, conspicuous labyrinthic inner layer in both walls and septa, aperture cribrate, of numerous irregularly spaced openings on terminal face. [Differs from Lituola in its complex wall, and from Choffatella in its cribrate aperture, rather than vertical series of pores.]




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