MANDOROVELLA de Klasz, Y. Le Calvez,and Rérat, 1969

 

 

Type species: Mandorovella miocenica de Klasz et al., 1969; OD.

Mandorovella de Klasz. Y. Le Calvez, and Rérat, 1969 (*1700), p. 269.

Test subglobular. about 1.0 mm in di­ameter, slightly flattened, periphery broadly rounded, early stage milioline with two cham­bers per whorl, later planispiral with three chambers per whorl: wall calcareous, imper­forate, porcelaneous, surface smooth; aperture arcuate at the margin of the final chamber, nearly filled by a broad flat tooth. L. Miocene; Gabon.

 

Remarks: No sections were illustrated for the type species; whether the early stage is quinqueloculine, triloculine, or has a differ­ent organization is unknown, and the system­atic allocation may require revision.