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Spiraloconulus
''Spiraloconulus'' is a genus of middle Jurassic forams with a coarsely agglutinated, microgranular, calcareous wall. The test is large, conical to cylindrical, coiled somewhat straight; the early coiled stage results in a flattened apex. Distinctly coiled microspheric tests are as much as 2 mm wide and 1.6 mm high. Megalospheric tests are smaller, up to 1.5 mm high and 1.1 mm wide. ''Spiraloconulus'' is known from the middle Jurassic of France, Italy, Sardinia, and Arabia. ''Timidonella ''Timidonella'' is a genus of large middle Jurassic forams, with microspheric tests up to in diameter. Smaller megalospheric tests may be fan-shaped or kidney-shaped to discoidal with breadths to slightly over 2 mm and a constant thicknes ...'' is another spirocyclind from the same time, but with a wider distribution. References * ''Spiraloconulus'' page in GSI Foraminifer e-boo {{Taxonbar, from=Q22286471 Loftusiida Prehistoric Foraminifera genera Jurassi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timidonella
''Timidonella'' is a genus of large middle Jurassic forams, with microspheric tests up to in diameter. Smaller megalospheric tests may be fan-shaped or kidney-shaped to discoidal with breadths to slightly over 2 mm and a constant thickness equal to that of the proloculus. Chambers are numerous. The wall, microgranular calcareous, agglutinated. ''Timidonella'' has been found in the middle Jurassic of France, Italy, Sardinia, Iran, and Madagascar. ''Spiraloconulus'', ''Streptocyclammina'', and ''Spirocyclina ''Spirocyclina'' is a genus of large forams, with a flat test as much as 10mm in diameter. Coiling is planispiral to slightly asymmetric and mostly involute, some becoming uncoiled with a straight final stage. The final whorl, or stage, has abo ...'' are among related genera. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q22286475 Loftusiida Prehistoric Foraminifera genera Toarcian life Jurassic animals of Asia Fossils of Thailand Fossil taxa described in 1974 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spirocyclinidae
Spirocyclinidae is a family of foraminifera included in the order Loftusiida. Tests are variably discoidal, aggulitinated with calcareous or microgranular cement. Interiors are complex with chambers partially subdivided. Walls and septa are pierced with ramifying and anastomosing channels. The family presently includes the following genera; ''Spirocyclina'', ''Anchispirocyclina'', ''Haurania'', ''Martiguesia'', ''Pseudospirocyclina'', ''Qataria'', ''Reissella'', ''Saudia'', ''Sornayina'', ''Spiraloconulus'', ''Streptocyclammina'', ''Timidonella'', and '' Vania''. Previous the subfamily Spyrocylininae according to Loeblich and Tappan, 1964 in the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology which then included ''Spriocyclina'', ''Anchispirocyclina'', ''Orbitammiina'', and ''Sornayina''. '' Orbitammina'' has been moved to the textulariid Orbitopsellidae where it rests along with '' Orbitopsella'', '' Cyclorbitopsella'', and '' Labyrinthina''. Foraminifera, to which the Spirocyclinidae b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jurassic
The Jurassic ( ) is a Geological period, geologic period and System (stratigraphy), stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya. The Jurassic constitutes the middle period of the Mesozoic, Mesozoic Era and is named after the Jura Mountains, where limestone strata from the period were first identified. The start of the Jurassic was marked by the major Triassic–Jurassic extinction event, associated with the eruption of the Central Atlantic magmatic province, Central Atlantic Magmatic Province. The beginning of the Toarcian Stage started around 183 million years ago and is marked by an extinction event associated with widespread Anoxic event, oceanic anoxia, ocean acidification, and elevated temperatures likely caused by the eruption of the Karoo-Ferrar, Karoo-Ferrar large igneous provinces. The end of the Jurassic, however, has no clear boundary with the Cretaceous and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SAR Supergroup
The SAR supergroup, also just SAR or Harosa, is a clade that includes stramenopiles (heterokonts), alveolates, and Rhizaria. The name is an acronym derived from the first letters of each of these clades; it has been alternatively spelled "RAS". The term "Harosa" (at the subkingdom level) has also been used. The SAR supergroup is a node-based taxon. Note that as a formal taxon, "Sar" has only its first letter capitalized, while the earlier abbreviation, SAR, retains all uppercase letters. Both names refer to the same group of organisms, unless further taxonomic revisions deem otherwise. Members of the SAR supergroup were once included under the separate supergroups Chromalveolata (Chromista and Alveolata) and Rhizaria, until phylogenetic studies confirmed that stramenopiles and alveolates diverged with Rhizaria. This apparently excluded haptophytes and cryptomonads, leading Okamoto ''et al.'' (2009) to propose the clade Hacrobia to accommodate them. Phylogeny Based on a compi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhizaria
The Rhizaria are an ill-defined but species-rich supergroup of mostly unicellular eukaryotes. Except for the Chlorarachniophytes and three species in the genus Paulinella in the phylum Cercozoa, they are all non-photosynthethic, but many foraminifera and radiolaria have a symbiotic relationship with unicellular algae. A multicellular form, ''Guttulinopsis vulgaris'', a cellular slime mold, has also been described. This group was used by Cavalier-Smith in 2002, although the term "Rhizaria" had been long used for clades within the currently recognized taxon. Being described mainly from rDNA sequences, they vary considerably in form, having no clear morphological distinctive characters (synapomorphies), but for the most part they are amoeboids with filose, reticulose, or microtubule-supported pseudopods. In the absence of an apomorphy, the group is ill-defined, and its composition has been very fluid. Some Rhizaria possess mineral exoskeleton (thecae or loricas), which is in differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foraminifera
Foraminifera (; Latin for "hole bearers"; informally called "forams") are single-celled organisms, members of a phylum or class of amoeboid protists characterized by streaming granular Ectoplasm (cell biology), ectoplasm for catching food and other uses; and commonly an external shell (called a "Test (biology), test") of diverse forms and materials. Tests of chitin (found in some simple genera, and Textularia in particular) are believed to be the most primitive type. Most foraminifera are marine, the majority of which live on or within the seafloor sediment (i.e., are benthos, benthic), while a smaller number float in the water column at various depths (i.e., are planktonic), which belong to the suborder Globigerinina. Fewer are known from freshwater or brackish conditions, and some very few (nonaquatic) soil species have been identified through molecular analysis of small subunit ribosomal DNA. Foraminifera typically produce a test (biology), test, or shell, which can have eithe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Textulariia
Globothalamea comprises a class of multichambered foraminifera based in part on SSU rDNA evidence; the other is Tubothalamea. Six orders are included, which vary notably in composition, wall structure, and chamber arrangement. The Lituolida, Loftusiida, and Textulariida (as emended) have tests (shells) of agglutinated matter, glued together by various cements, but differ in chamber arrangement, wall structure, and complexity. In contrast the Carterinida, Robertinida and Rotaliida, with buliminids lumped into the Rotaliida, have calcareous tests. Those of rotaliid genera, which vary considerably, are of perforate hyaline (glassy) calcite. in contrast the Carterinida have tests composed of bundled calcite spicules. The Robertida differ in being composed, instead, of aragonite. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loftusiida
Loftusiida is an order of foraminifers in the class Globothalamea. Subtaxa Suborder Ataxophragmiina * Superfamily Ataxophragmioidea ** Family Ataxophragmiidae ** Family †Cuneolinidae ** Family Dictyopsellidae ** Family Dicyclinidae ** Family Globotextulariidae ** Family Montsaleviidae ** Family Textulariellidae Suborder Biokovinina * Superfamily Biokovinoidea (Biokovinacea) ** Family Biokovinidae ** Family Charentiidae ** Family Lituoliporidae * Superfamily Coscinophragmatoidea ** Family Coscinophragmatidae ** Family Haddoniidae Suborder Cyclolinina * Superfamily Cyclolinoidea ** Family Cyclolinidae Suborder Loftusiina * Superfamily Haplophragmioidea ** Family Cribratinidae ** Family Haplophragmiidae ** Family Labyrinthidomatidae * Superfamily Loftusioidea (Loftusiacea) ** Family Cyclamminidae ** Family Ecougellidae ** Family Everticyclamminidae ** Family Hottingeritidae ** Family Loftusiidae ** Family Mesoendothyridae ** Family Spirocyclini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prehistoric Foraminifera Genera
Prehistory, also known as pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the use of the first stone tools by hominins 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The use of symbols, marks, and images appears very early among humans, but the earliest known writing systems appeared 5000 years ago. It took thousands of years for writing systems to be widely adopted, with writing spreading to almost all cultures by the 19th century. The end of prehistory therefore came at very different times in different places, and the term is less often used in discussing societies where prehistory ended relatively recently. In the early Bronze Age, Sumer in Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley Civilisation, and ancient Egypt were the first civilizations to develop their own scripts and to keep historical records, with their neighbors following. Most other civilizations reached the end of prehistory during the following Iron Age. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
