PRAERHAPYDIONINA Van Wessem, 1943

 

 

Type species: Praerhapydionina cubana Van Wessem, 1943; OD.

Praerhapydionina Van Wessem, 1943 (*3254), p. 43.Test elongate, subconical, up to about 1 mm in length, circular in section, early stage planispirally enrolled, later uncoiled and rectilinear, chambers low and arched centrally, interior subdivided by a few inward projecting radial septula; wall calcareous, porcelaneous; aperture terminal, central. Eocene (Lutetian) to Oligocene; Cuba; Iraq; Iran; Spain.

 

Remarks: According to Hamaoui and Fourcade (1973, *1384, p. 366), who examined the types of P. cubana in Utrecht, the Cuban material is of Eocene age, rather than U. Cretaceous in age as originally reported.