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Textularia

Classification

    Phylum:  
Protista
    Subphylum:  
Sarcodina
    Class:  
Reticularea
    Subclass:  
Granuloreticulosia
    Order:  
Foraminiferida
    Suborder:  
Textulariina
    Superfamily:  
Lituolacea
    Family:  
Textulariidae
    Subfamily:  
Textulariinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Textularia Defrance in de BLAINVILLE, 1824, *141a, p. 177
    Type Species:  
T. sagittula, OD (M)


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Fig. 165,1,2. *T. sagittula, Plio.(Piacenz.), Italy (Siena, 1 a, b, Castel-Arquato, 2 a, b), 1 a, b, side, top views of topotype, X26 (*2117), 2a,b, side, top views, X64 (*2117).Fig. 165,3. T. sp., long. axial sec. showing simple wall construction, enlarged (*401).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

cosmop.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Penn.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Bashkirian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
323.4
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Rec.
    Ending International Stage:  
Meghalayan
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
0


Description

Test free, elongate, biserial, generally more or less compressed in plane of biseriality or rarely oval to circular in cross section, chambers numerous, generally closely appressed, wall agglutinated, simple, aperture single low arch at base of last chamber.




References

Blainville, H. M. Ducrotay de, 1824-30, Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles: (a) 1824 , v. 32, p. 1-567; (b) 1824, Zoologie, Conchyliologie et Malacologie, atlas v. 31, pl. 1-33; (c) 1826, v. 41, p. 1-558; (d) 1830 , v. 60 , p. 1 631; F. G. Levrault (Paris).-(142) 1825, Manuel de malacologie et de conchyliologie: 664 p., 87 pl. (1827), F. G. Levrault (Paris). - (143) 1828, in Vieillot, L. J. P., Faune française, ou histoire naturelle, génerale et particulière des animaux qui se trouvent en France (1821-28, v. 1-29): v. 18, p. 66 (Paris).


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