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Zekritia
Classification
Phylum:
Protista
Subphylum:
Sarcodina
Class:
Reticularea
Subclass:
Granuloreticulosia
Order:
Foraminiferida
Suborder:
Textulariina
Superfamily:
Lituolacea
Family:
Dicyclinidae
Subfamily:
Dicyclininae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Zekritia HENSON, 1948, *902, p. 95
Type Species:
Z. langhami, OD
Images
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Fig. 216. *Z. langhami, slightly oblique sec. of holotype, X39 (*2115).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Asia(Qatar Penin., Arabia)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Cret.(?Turon.)
Beginning International Stage:
Turonian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
93.9
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Cret.(?Turon.)
Ending International Stage:
Turonian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
89.39
Description
Test compressed, flabelliform, chambers of early stages probably evolute planispiral, later uniserial and arcuate, chambers in 2 layers partially subdivided by interseptal partitions and pillars in median plane, wall calcareous, agglutinated, aperture cribrate in rows at either side of median partition, with intercameral connections between chambers of 2 layers. [Zekritia differs from Cyclopsinella in having connections between the 2 layers of chambers. The type-species is known from a single sectioned specimen.]
References
Henson, F. R. S., 1948, Foraminifera of the genus Trocholina in the Middle East: Ann. \& Mag. Nat. History, ser. 11, v. 14 (1947), p. 445-459, pl. 11-13.-(901) 1948, New Trochamminidae and Verneuilinidae from the Middle East: Same, ser. 11, v. 14 (1947), p. 605-630, pl. 14-18.-(902) 1948, Larger imperforate Foraminifera of southwestern Asia, Families Lituolidae, Orbitolinidae and Meandropsinidae: British Museum (Nat. History), Mon., p. 1-127, pl. 1-16, fig. 1-16.——(903) 1950, Middle eastern Tertiary Peneroplidae (Foraminifera), with remarks on the phylogeny and taxonomy of the family: $70 \mathrm{p} ., 10 \mathrm{pl} ., 3$ text-fig., West Yorkshire Printing Co. (Wakefield, England).
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Protista
Subphylum:
Sarcodina
Class:
Reticularea
Subclass:
Granuloreticulosia
Order:
Foraminiferida
Suborder:
Textulariina
Superfamily:
Lituolacea
Family:
Dicyclinidae
Subfamily:
Dicyclininae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Zekritia HENSON, 1948, *902, p. 95
Type Species:
Z. langhami, OD
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 216. *Z. langhami, slightly oblique sec. of holotype, X39 (*2115).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Asia(Qatar Penin., Arabia)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Cret.(?Turon.)
Beginning International Stage:
Turonian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
93.9
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Cret.(?Turon.)
Ending International Stage:
Turonian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
89.39
Description
Test compressed, flabelliform, chambers of early stages probably evolute planispiral, later uniserial and arcuate, chambers in 2 layers partially subdivided by interseptal partitions and pillars in median plane, wall calcareous, agglutinated, aperture cribrate in rows at either side of median partition, with intercameral connections between chambers of 2 layers. [Zekritia differs from Cyclopsinella in having connections between the 2 layers of chambers. The type-species is known from a single sectioned specimen.]
References
Henson, F. R. S., 1948, Foraminifera of the genus Trocholina in the Middle East: Ann. \& Mag. Nat. History, ser. 11, v. 14 (1947), p. 445-459, pl. 11-13.-(901) 1948, New Trochamminidae and Verneuilinidae from the Middle East: Same, ser. 11, v. 14 (1947), p. 605-630, pl. 14-18.-(902) 1948, Larger imperforate Foraminifera of southwestern Asia, Families Lituolidae, Orbitolinidae and Meandropsinidae: British Museum (Nat. History), Mon., p. 1-127, pl. 1-16, fig. 1-16.——(903) 1950, Middle eastern Tertiary Peneroplidae (Foraminifera), with remarks on the phylogeny and taxonomy of the family: $70 \mathrm{p} ., 10 \mathrm{pl} ., 3$ text-fig., West Yorkshire Printing Co. (Wakefield, England).