Miliolacea Explained
Miliolacea is one of five superfamilies belonging to the Miliolida, (suborder Miliolina in Loeblich & Tappan 1988).
Miliolaceans produce a coiled test, commonly with two, less frequently three or more, chambers per whorl arranged in varying planes about the longitudinal axis, which later may become involute or uncoil. Advanced forms may have secondary partitions within the chambers.
Species within the Milioacea are found in Upper Triassic (Norian) to recent marine sediments.
Further reading
- Pecheux. Jean-Francois Martin. Des Miliolacea aux Alveolinacea (grands foraminiferes) : La faune du Cretace superieur et du Tertiaire inferieur du Chiapas (S.E. Mexique). Geobios. 2002. 35. 4. 469–488. 10.1016/S0016-6995(02)00041-4.
- Sadekov. Aleksey Yu.. Bush. Joanna. Ganeshram. Raja. Mg/Ca composition of benthic foraminifera Miliolacea as a new tool of paleoceanography. Paleoceanography. October 2014. 29. 10. 990–1001. 10.1002/2014PA002654. 2014PalOc..29..990S.
- Alfred R. Loeblich Jr and Helen Tappan, 1988. Forminiferal Genera and their Classification. https://web.archive.org/web/20120616112446/http://www.gsi.ir/General/Lang_en/Page_48/Action_FirstPageView/FORAMINIFERIDA.html
- Mehl. Johannes O.. Noe. Sibylle U.. Bremen. Morphological investigations of Miliolidae (Foraminifera) from the Upper Permian of the Southern Alps, based on thin sections and stereoscopic X-ray microradiographs. Paläontologische Zeitschrift. December 1990. 64. 3–4. 173–192. 10.1007/BF02985712.
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