VASICOSTELLA Patterson and Richardson, 1987

 

 

Type species: Lagena vulgaris Williamson vac helophoromarginata E W. O. Rymer Jones, 1872 (*1614), p. 61; OD.Vasicostella Patterson and Richardson, I987 (*2372), p. 220, 224.

Test unilocular, flasklike, compressed, periphery carinate; wall calcareous, hyaline, perforate, surface longitudinally nodose, carinate, or punctate; aperture round to oval, bordered with a slight lip and provided with a central entosolenian tube. Pleistocene to Holocene; Mediterranean; Atlantic; Pacific.