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Pseudorbitoides

Classification

    Phylum:  
Protista
    Subphylum:  
Sarcodina
    Class:  
Reticularea
    Subclass:  
Granuloreticulosia
    Order:  
Foraminiferida
    Suborder:  
Rotalina
    Superfamily:  
Orbitoidacea
    Family:  
Pseudorbitoididae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Pseudorbitoides H. DOUVILLÉ, 1922, *624, p. 204
    Type Species:  
P. trechmanni, OD


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Fig. 593,1a,b. *P. trechmanni, Jamaica, la,b, equat. and vert. secs. of microspheric specimens, X40 (*2123). -- Fig. 593,1c,d. P. israelskyi Vaughan & Cole, usa (La.), 1c,d, equat. and vert. secs. of megalospheric specimens, X40 (*2123)


Synonyms

Historbitoides


Geographic Distribution

Carib. (Jamaica)New Guinea-N.Am.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Cret.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Cenomanian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
100.5
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Cret.
    Ending International Stage:  
Maastrichtian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
66.04


Description

Embryonic chambers of microspheric generation forming distinct spire followed by arcuate equatorial chambers which are succeeded by radial plates, embryonic chambers of megalospheric form bilocular, with 2 or more periembryonic chambers forming irregular spire succeeded by radial plates which extend to periphery; lateral chambers well developed, resting directly on radial plates.




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