AWHEA Vella, 1963

 

Type Species: Nodosaria sinalata Finlay, 1940 (*1129), p. 452; OD.Awhea Vella, 1963 (*3288), p. 6.Test narrow, elongate, up to 2.2 mm in length, uniserial, rectilinear, with large elongate, oval, and apiculate proloculus followed by narrow and elongate subcylindrical cham­bers, sutures flush or slightly constricted, hor­izontal; wall calcareous, surface ornamented with about eight longitudinal ribs that may be slightly twisted about the vertical axis; aperture not described. prohahly terminal. U. Miocene to Pliocene: New Zealand.