Lituolidae
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Definition of the noun Lituolidae
What does Lituolidae mean as a name of something?
Lituolidae is a family of Lituolida.
- kingdom: Chromista
- phylum: Foraminifera
- class: Globothalamea
- order: Lituolida
Lituolidae is a family of Lituoloidea, described by Blainville in 1827.
- synonym: family Lituolidae
- kingdom: Chromista
- phylum: Foraminifera
- class: Globothalamea
- order: Lituolida
- members:
- genus Agardhella
- genus Ammoastuta
- genus Ammobacularia
- genus Ammobaculites
- genus Ammomarginulina
- genus Ammopalmula
- genus Ammotium
- genus Atactolituola
- genus Bdelloidina
- genus Bulbobuccicrenata
- genus Eratidus
- genus Flabellammina
- genus Haddonia
- genus Haymanella
- genus Kolchidina
- genus Kutsevella
- genus Lamina
- genus Lituola
- genus Lituolea
- genus Ostiobaculites
- genus Praeammoastuta
- genus Pterammina
- genus Rhabdogonium
- genus Sculptobaculites
- genus Simobaculites
- genus Triplasia
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Encyclopedia of Microbiology (2009)
Lituolidae (Ammobaculites), Placopsilinidae (Placopsilina) Superfamily Haplophragmiacea – test streptospirally coiled with interiomarginal or areal aperture Families: Ammosphaeroidinidae (Adercotryma) and Ammobaculinidae (Ammobaculinus) Superfamily Coscinophragmatacea – test perforate, ...
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, a Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1884)
Shell arenaceous, Lituolidae. B. PERFORATA.—Many minute apertures. 1. One-chambered, Lagenidae. Vitreous. 2. Many-chambered, Globigerinidae. 3. Many-chambered, with internal canals, Nummulitidae. See Carpenter on Foraminifera ; Huxley, Anat. of Invert. Animals. Fossil Foraminifera. The earliest records of this order yet observed are in sandstones, ...
CHAMBERS'S ENCYCLOPAEDIA: A DICTIONARY OF UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE NEW EDITION VOL. IV (1892)
by ROBERT CHAMBERS
Among Lituolidae, Parkeria and Loftusia are relatively large forms — about two inches in diameter and length respectively. A peculiarly interesting Challenger form among the pelagic Globigerinids — Hastigerina murrayi — has the shell surrounded by a zone of bubbly protoplasm, and in its vacuoles and internal shell suggests Kadiolarian characteristics. The species of Foraminifera are legion, probably above two thousand. They are interesting, as illustrating complexity and lieauty of ...
The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language (1883)
by John Ogilvie
J A fossil genus of Foraminifera, of the family Lituolidae, from the lias: so named from the manner in which the tubelike organism is coiled upon itself. Involution (in-vo-lu'shon), n. [L. involutio, involutionis, from in ...
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