Biology:Milioloidea

Milioloidea is one of five superfamilies belonging to the Miliolida, (suborder Miliolina in Loeblich & Tappan 1988).

Milioloideans 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 Milioloidea are found in Upper Triassic (Norian) to recent marine sediments.

Further reading

• Pecheux, Jean-Francois Martin (2002). "Des Miliolacea aux Alveolinacea (grands foraminiferes) : La faune du Cretace superieur et du Tertiaire inferieur du Chiapas (S.E. Mexique)". Geobios 35 (4): 469–488. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(02)00041-4. 
• Sadekov, Aleksey Yu.; Bush, Joanna; Ganeshram, Raja (October 2014). "Mg/Ca composition of benthic foraminifera Miliolacea as a new tool of paleoceanography". Paleoceanography 29 (10): 990–1001. doi:10.1002/2014PA002654. Bibcode: 2014PalOc..29..990S. 
• Alfred R. Loeblich Jr and Helen Tappan, 1988. Forminiferal Genera and their Classification. [1]
• Mehl, Johannes O.; Noe, Sibylle U.; Bremen (December 1990). "Morphological investigations of Miliolidae (Foraminifera) from the Upper Permian of the Southern Alps, based on thin sections and stereoscopic X-ray microradiographs". Paläontologische Zeitschrift 64 (3–4): 173–192. doi:10.1007/BF02985712. 

External links

• Miliolacea on www.itis.gov
• Morphological classification of foraminifera Valeria I. Mikhalevich et al.

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