Maylisoriidae
| Maylisoriidae | ||||||||||||
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| Cambrian to Silurian | ||||||||||||
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East Kazakhstan |
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| Maylisoriidae | ||||||||||||
| EV Bykova, 1961 |
The Maylisoriidae are an extinct family of shell -bearing, sea-dwelling unicellular organisms from the group of foraminifera . It was first described in 1961 by EV Bykova on the basis of finds from eastern Kazakhstan .
Features and way of life
The kinds of order lived freely or were firmly attached to the ground. The housing had a wall made of protein, the branched tubes ended in bag-like chambers. The Maylisoriidae have been proven in fossil records from the Upper Cambrian to the Silurian . They include two genera:
proof
- Alfred R. Loeblich, Jr., Helen Tappan: Foraminiferal genera and their classification. Geological Survey Of Iran e-book . 2005 ( online ).