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Ammodiscacea

Ammodiscacea
Temporal range: Early Cambrian - Recent
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): SAR
(unranked): Rhizaria
Phylum: Retaria
Subphylum: Foraminifera
Class: Globothalamea
Order: Textulariida
Superfamily: Ammodiscacea
Reuss, 1867
Family: Ammodiscidae
Reuss, 1867
Subfamilies

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The Ammodiscacea is a superfamily of foraminifera in the order Textulariida. Tests (or shells) are made of agglutinated grains and consist of a proloculus (the initial chamber) followed by an enrolled tubular second chamber open at the distal end, that lacks internal septa but which may have growth constrictions.

Ammodiscacea includes a single family, the Ammodiscidae, which contains five subfamilies:


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