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Qataria

Classification

    Phylum:  
Protista
    Subphylum:  
Sarcodina
    Class:  
Reticularea
    Subclass:  
Granuloreticulosia
    Order:  
Foraminiferida
    Suborder:  
Textulariina
    Superfamily:  
Lituolacea
    Family:  
Dicyclinidae
    Subfamily:  
Dicyclininae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Qataria HENSON, 1948, *902, p. 98
    Type Species:  
Q. dukhani, OD


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Fic. 215,1,2, *Q. dukhani: 1, fragment of superficial sec., parallel to equatorial plane, X 67; 2, subaxial sec. of paratype showing lateral chamberlets, X59 (*2115).


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Geographic Distribution

Asia(Qatar Penin., Arabia)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Cret.(U. Cenoman)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Cenomanian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
75
    Beginning Date:  
95.55
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Cret.(Turon.)
    Ending International Stage:  
Turonian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
89.39


Description

Test discoidal, early stage planispiral, later chambers cyclical, outer margins of chambers subdivided by numerous parallel and transverse subepidermal partitions: lateral chamberlets in radial rows from center to periphery: aperture multiple, small perforations in outer wall in rows corresponding to opposing pairs of lateral chamberlets




References

Henson, F. R. S., 1948, Foraminifera of the genus Trocholina in the Middle East: Ann. \& Mag. Nat. History, ser. 11, v. 14 (1947), p. 445-459, pl. 11-13.-(901) 1948, New Trochamminidae and Verneuilinidae from the Middle East: Same, ser. 11, v. 14 (1947), p. 605-630, pl. 14-18.-(902) 1948, Larger imperforate Foraminifera of southwestern Asia, Families Lituolidae, Orbitolinidae and Meandropsinidae: British Museum (Nat. History), Mon., p. 1-127, pl. 1-16, fig. 1-16.——(903) 1950, Middle eastern Tertiary Peneroplidae (Foraminifera), with remarks on the phylogeny and taxonomy of the family: $70 \mathrm{p} ., 10 \mathrm{pl} ., 3$ text-fig., West Yorkshire Printing Co. (Wakefield, England).


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