Ammodiscoidea

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Ammodiscoidea
Temporal range: Early Cambrian - Recent
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Ammodiscoidea

Reuss, 1862
Family:
Ammodiscidae

Reuss, 1862
Subfamilies

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The Ammodiscoidea is a superfamily of foraminifera in the order Textulariida. tests (or shells) are made of agglutinated grains and consist of a proloculus (the initial chamber) followed by an enrolled tubular second chamber open at the distal end, that lacks internal septa but which may have growth constrictions.

Ammodiscoidea includes a single family, the Ammodiscidae, which contains five subfamilies:

Ammodiscinae
Ammovertellininae
Ammovolummininae
Tolypammininae
Usbekistaniinae

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