Chilostomelloidea
Chilostomelloidea is a superfamily of globigerid forams with planispiral or enrolled biserial tests, found in marine sediments of Early Cretaceous to the present, in which chambers vary from globular to elongate and the primary aperture is equatorial in position. It is in the suborder Rotaliina and the order Rotaliida. Chilostomelloidea includes eleven families, the Chilostomellidae, Quadrimorphinidae, Alabaminidae, Globorotalitidae, Osangulariidae, Oridorsalidae, Heterolepidae, Gavelinellidae, Karreriidae, Coleitidae, Trichohyalidae.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 606544.