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Spiroclypeus

Classification

    Phylum:  
Protista
    Subphylum:  
Sarcodina
    Class:  
Reticularea
    Subclass:  
Granuloreticulosia
    Order:  
Foraminiferida
    Suborder:  
Rotalina
    Superfamily:  
Rotaliacea
    Family:  
Nummulitidae
    Subfamily:  
Cycloclypeinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Spiroclypeus DOUVILLÉ, 1905, *615, p. 458
    Type Species:  
S. orbitoideus, OD


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Fig. 521,4. S. tidoenganensis van der Vlerk, L.Mio., Saipan Is., 4 a, b, med. and transv. secs., X16 (*2113c).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Indo-Pac.Reg.-Eu.; Oligo., W. Indies


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Eoc.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Ypresian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
56
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Mio..
    Ending International Stage:  
Burdigalian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
15.99


Description

Like Heterostegina but lateral chambers developed on each side of the median layer




References

Schlumberger, Charles, , \& Douvillé, Henri, 1905, Sur deux Foraminifères Eocènes, Dictyoconus egyptiensis Chapm. et Lituonella roberti, nov.gen. et sp.: Soc. géol. France, Bull., ser. 4, v. 5, no. 3, p. 291-304, pl. 9.


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