MEANDROSPIRA Loeblich and Tappan, 1946

 

 

Type species: Meandrospira washitensis Loeblich and Tappan, 1946; OD.

Meandrospira Loeblich and Tappan ,1946 ( *1879), p. 248. Streblospira Crespin and Belford, 1957 (*691), p. 75; type species: Streblospira meandrina Crespin and Belford,1957; OD.

Citaella Premoli Silva, 1964 (*2468A ), p. 658; type species: Citaella iulia Premoli Silva, 1964; OD.

Test small, proloculus followed by spirally wound tubular undivided second chamber, bending back and forth in involute zigzag bends that enroll planispirally so that the loops bend at the umbilicus, only those of the final whorl visible from the exterior; wall calcareous, imperforate, porcelaneous; aperture ter­minal, simple. L. Permian (Artinskian) to Holocene; North America; Europe; N. Africa; Australia.