PSEUDONOVELLA Kireeva, 1949

 

 

Type species: Pseudonovella irregularis Kireeva, 1949; OD.

Novella (Pseudonovella) Kireeva, 1949 (*1692), p. 27(described as subgenus but used in generic sense).
Pseudonovella Rozovskaya, 1963 (*2662), p. 111 (nom.transl.).

Test small, up to 0.4 mm in diameter, lenticular, biumbilicate, periphery subangular to rounded, whorls regularly increasing in height, early whorls evolute, final whorl enveloping much of the early stage but not

completely involute; wall calcareous, micro-granular, undifferentiated, supplementary deposits form weakly developed pseudochomata. U. Carboniferous (U. Bashkirian to Moscovian); USSR: Donbass.

 

Remarks: Differs from Novella in the more angular periphery and tendency for later whorls to become involute.