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Yaberinella

Classification

    Phylum:  
Protista
    Subphylum:  
Sarcodina
    Class:  
Reticularea
    Subclass:  
Granuloreticulosia
    Order:  
Foraminiferida
    Suborder:  
Miliolina
    Superfamily:  
Miliolacea
    Family:  
Soritidae
    Subfamily:  
Soritinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Yaberinella Vaughan, 1928, *1989, p. 7
    Type Species:  
Y. jamaicensis, OD


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Fig. 389,1-3. *Y. jamaicensis, M. Eoc., 1 a, b, side, edge views of lectotype (here designated, one of Vaughan's figured specimens), X9 (*2117), 2, horiz. sec. of megalospheric paratype, showing fine radial surface striations at sides, and interwoven appearance of septula in central portion, X13, 3, vert. sec. of microspheric specimen, X7 (*1989).


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Geographic Distribution

Carib. (Jamaica)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
M.Eoc.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Lutetian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
48.07
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Eoc.
    Ending International Stage:  
Priabonian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
33.9


Description

Test large, operculine to discoidal in plan, up to 50 mm in diameter, early stage peneropline, with very broad, low chambers, which may become cyclical, especially in microspheric form, chambers subdivided into secondary chamberlets, septula numerous, intersecting at low angles to give hachured appearance in section, aperture apparently a series of pores on apertural face, chamberlets communicating through stolons, which occur in 3 planes.




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