Ventrolaminidae

Ventrolaminidae
Temporal range: Bajocian - (Berriasian.
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Phylum: Retaria
Subphylum: Foraminifera
Class: Spirillinata
Order: Involutinida
Family: Ventrolaminidae
Weynschenk, 1950

The Ventrolaminidae is a family of benthic Foraminifera included in the Involutinida, now part of the subclass Spirillinana, class Spirillinata[1]

Test of the Ventrolaminidae are lenticular, planispiral, or a low trochospiral with multiple chambers in a rapidly enlarging whorl. The wall is calcareous in two layers. The inner one is microgranular, the outer hyaline glassy).[2]

Two genera are included, Archaeosepta and Protopeneroplis. Loeblich and Tappan included Protopeneroplis (or Ventrolamina, in the Involutinidae in the Treatise Part C, 1964. Archaeosepta was added hence, in 1970.

References

  1. Spirillinata, Foraminifera
  2. Ventrolaminidae Loeblich & Tappan 1988, GSI e-book.
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