ASHBROOKIA McCulloch, 1977

 

 

Type species: Ashbrookia ornata McCulloch, 1977: OD.Ashbrookia McCulloch. 1977(*1961), _p. 282. Pseudopatellina S. Y. Zheng. 1980(*3450), p- 168. 182 non Pseudopatetlina Haque. 1960, nec Kenawy and Nyirö. 1967); type species: Pseudopatellina compress.

Zheng. 1980; OD.Exopatellina S. Y. Zheng. 1981 (*3452), p. 906 (nom. subst. pro Pseudopatetlina Zheng, 1980): type species: Pseudopatellina compressa Zheng, 1980: OD.Test planoconvex, low trochospiral coil of approximately two whorls, about three strongly overlapping chambers per whorl, without a tubular undivided second chamber like that of Patellina, chambers low and crescentic and sutures strongly curved as seen from the convex spiral side, final chamber occupying well over half the periphery and umbilical side, outer margin of the chambers with short radial septula, umbilical margin of the final chamber projecting at the center, and with a curved reentrant at each end; wall calcareous, hyaline, finely punctate; aperture umbilical in position but without the columella struc­ture of the Patellinidae. Holocene: Philip-pine Islands: China: Zhongsha Islands.