MEANDROSPIRANELLA Salaj, 1969

 

Type species: Meandrospiranella samueli Salaj, in Salaj et al., 1967 (*2710), p. 122 (species available, 1967, but genus not available until 1969); OD.

Meandrospiranella Salaj, 1969 (*2704), p. 1294. Meandrospiranella Salaj, in Salaj et al., 1967 (*2710),

p. 122 (name not available, ICZN Art. 13 (b), type species not designated).

Test free, small, elongate, proloculus followed by elongate, undivided tubular second chamber that coils streptospirally in short zigzag bends in a Meandrospira-like stage of about five whorls, later somewhat irregular and uncoiling; wall calcareous, imperforate, porcelaneous; aperture terminal, simple. M. Triassic (Anisian) to U. Cretaceous (Cenomanian); Czechoslovakia; Romania; USA: Texas.