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Tolypammina

Classification

    Phylum:  
Protista
    Subphylum:  
Sarcodina
    Class:  
Reticularea
    Subclass:  
Granuloreticulosia
    Order:  
Foraminiferida
    Suborder:  
Textulariina
    Superfamily:  
Ammodiscacea
    Family:  
Ammodiscidae
    Subfamily:  
Tolypammininae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Tolypammina Rhumbler, 1895, *1568A, p. 83
    Type Species:  
Hyperammina vagans BRADY, 1879, *196a, p. 33, OD(M)


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Fig. 126,1. *T. vagans (Brady), Rec., S.Atl., X19 (*2117), Fig. 126, 2. T. permiana (Paalzow), Perm.(Zech.), Ger., X8 (*1406)


Synonyms

Serpulella


Geographic Distribution

U.Sil.-Rec., Eu.-N.Am.-N.Z.-Australia-Antarctic-Atl.-Pac.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Sil.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Gorstian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
426.74
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Rec.
    Ending International Stage:  
Meghalayan
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
0


Description

Test attached, large globular proloculus followed by long undivided tubular 2nd chamber of smaller diameter which winds irregularly over surface of attachment, wall agglutinated with considerable cement, commonly reddish, aperture at open end of tubular chamber. [Differs from Lilllolllba in lacking the early streptospiral coil and in having an irregularly winding later stage.]




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