Ventrolaminidae

Ventrolaminidae

Ventrolaminidae

Family of single-celled organisms

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

Quick Facts Ventrolaminidae Temporal range: Bajocian – Berriasian, Scientific classification ...

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