Allogromiidae

Allogromiidae
Systematics
without rank: Sar without rank: Rhizaria without rank: Retaria without rank: Foraminifera (Foraminifera) Order : Allogromiida Family : Allogromiidae
Scientific name
Allogromiidae
Rhumbler , 1904

The Allogromiidae are a family of protists from the group of foraminifera and, next to the Lagynidae, represent the largest family in the order of the Allogromiida .

features

Their housings have only one chamber with an outer skin made of protein , which normally serves as cement for particles taken up from the sediment, but occasionally such agglutinations are also absent and the housings consist only of protein shells.

Generational change species have amoeboid gametes .

Systematics

The family was first described in 1904 by Ludwig Rhumbler . It has been fossilized since the Upper Ordovician and includes the following genera:

• Allogromia
• Cylindrogullmia
• Edaphoallogromia
• Gloiogullmia
• Nemogullmia
• Tinogullmia
• Dendrotuba
• Hospitella

proof

• Alfred R. Loeblich, Jr., Helen Tappan: Foraminiferal genera and their classification , E-Book des Geological Survey Of Iran , 2005, Online

Individual evidence

The information in this article is taken from the literature given under references; the following literature is also cited:

1. ↑ Barun K. Sen Gupta: Systematics of modern Foraminifera , In: Barun K. Sen Gupta (Ed.): Modern Foraminifera . Springer Netherlands (Kluwer Academic), 2002, ISBN 978-1-4020-0598-5 , pp. 23 .