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Streptocyclammina

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Domain
  
Eukaryota

Subphylum
  
Order
  
Loftusiida

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Subclass
  
Textulariia

Family
  

Streptocyclammina is a genus of benthic forams with a flattened test from the Jurassic. The test (or shell) usually starts off streptospiral (coiled irregularly) hence the name, and becomes planispiral in the mature stage. Chambers are numerous per whorl, whorls become rapidly larger in peneropline fashion (as common in Pereroplis). Sutures between whorls are slightly indented, the periphery rounded. The wall is finely agglutinated, externally imperorate, internally with massive septa perforated by numerous apertures.

Streptocyclammina has been found in Jurassic sediments in Morocco, Italy, and the Balkans. Spiraloconulus and Timidonella are other spirocyclinids from the same general region, but are limited to the middle Jurassic.

References

Streptocyclammina Wikipedia


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