CRIBRATINA Sample, 1932

 

 

Type species: Nodosaria texana Conrad, in Emory, 1857 (*1109), p. 159; OD.

Cribratina Sample, 1932 (*2722), p. 319.

Test free, large, up to 10 mm in length, elongate, uniserial and rectilinear, chambers closely appressed, sutures straight, horizon­tal and constricted; wall thick, agglutinated, of medium- to coarse-grained quartz and other mineral particles, with subepidermal alveo­lar layer; aperture terminal, cribrate, with many irregular and subangular openings on a produced area of the final chamber face. L. Cretaceous (Albian) to U. Cretaceous (L. Cenomanian); USA: Texas, Oklahoma.