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Verneuilina

Classification

    Phylum:  
Protista
    Subphylum:  
Sarcodina
    Class:  
Reticularea
    Subclass:  
Granuloreticulosia
    Order:  
Foraminiferida
    Suborder:  
Textulariina
    Superfamily:  
Lituolacea
    Family:  
Ataxophragmiidae
    Subfamily:  
Verneuilininae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Verneuilina d'Orbigny in de la Sagra, 1839, *1611, p. 104
    Type Species:  
V. tricarinata, SD (SM) D'ORBIGNY, 1840, *1394, p. 39


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Fossil Image
Fig. 179, 1. *V. tricarinata, U.Cret.(Senon.), Eu.(Fr.), l a, b, side and top views of lectotype, here designated and redrawn (MNHN), X80 (*2117).


Synonyms

Verneulina


Geographic Distribution

cosmop.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Jur.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Hettangian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
201.36
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Rec.
    Ending International Stage:  
Meghalayan
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
0


Description

Test free, elongate, triangular, with angles of test sharp, nearly carinate, chambers triserially arranged throughout, wall agglutinated, with much calcareous cement; aperture a low arch at inner face of final chamber.




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