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Tuberitina

Classification

    Phylum:  
Protista
    Subphylum:  
Sarcodina
    Class:  
Reticularea
    Subclass:  
Granuloreticulosia
    Order:  
Foraminiferida
    Suborder:  
Fusulinina
    Superfamily:  
Endothyracea
    Family:  
Nodosinellidae
    Subfamily:  
Tuberitininae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Tuberitina Galloway & HARLTON, 1928, *763, p. 346
    Type Species:  
T. bulbacea, OD


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Fig. 234,1-4. *T. bulbacea, Penn., USA (Okla.); 1, holotype, 2, specimen showing distinctly punctate surface, 3,4 , thin secs. showing perforate wall, all X35 (*763). --Fig. 234,5,6. T. collosa Reytlinger, M.Carb.(U.Moscov.), USSR, holotype and paratype, X90 (*700). --Fig. 234,7. T. reitlingerae (A. D. MiklukhoMaklay), M.Carb., USSR, holotype, X90 (*1560).


Synonyms

Capidulina, Eotuberitina


Geographic Distribution

USSR, U.Carb.(Penn.), N.Am., L.Perm., USSR


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Dev.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Frasnian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
378.9
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Dev.
    Ending International Stage:  
Famennian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
359.3


Description

Test attached, to 1.2 mm. in length: proloculus in form of basal disc, later bulbous chambers in rectilinear Of curved series, increasing gradually in size as added: wall thick, calcareous, granular and finely' perforate, surface commonly punctate; no aperture or interclmeral connection except for wall perforations.




References

Frenguelli, Joaquin, , \& Harlton, B. H., 1928, Some Pennsylvanian Foraminifera of Oklahoma with special reference to the genus Orobias: Jour. Palcontology, v. 2, p. 338-357, pl. 45-56.


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