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Fauna Sinica Phylum Granuloreticulosa Class Foraminiferea
Agglutinated Foraminifera
In Chinese with English Summary and English key to Species
By Zheng Shouyi and Fu Zhaoxian
Published in May of 2001
Page: 788pp with 129 figures + 123 plates
Hardback
Size:180x260mm
Price: US$78
Agglutinated foraminifera, in the loose sense
here inclusive of the allogromid,astrorhizid,and textularid foraminifera,
are geographically the most widespread group of benthic foraminifera.
Their occurrence in almost all kinds of marine environment environment,ranging
frommarginal marine,hyposaline,hypersaline,to shelf and bathyal regions
where they sometimes make up a large proportion of the benthonic foraminiferal
fauna is attributed to their possession of a dissolution-resistant organic
membrane or organic cement used in binding exogenous test-building material.Their
specific and non-specific faunal trends are useful in ecological and paleoecological
interpretations.
Study material consisting of some 700 surface sediment samples were collected
from the Bohai Sea ,the Huanghai Sea,the East China Sea to depths of over
2000 m in the Okinawa Trough,the northern South China Sea to a depth of
1010m (one station),as well as from the southern islands of Guangdong
Province---the Zhongsha Islands,the Xisha Islands, and the Nansha Islands
.These seas cover temperate,subtropical and tropical regions,and range
from shallow marginal,semi-enclosed to deep sea.Five hundred and thirty-nine
species described and fully illustrated belong to 38 families and 140
genera,inclusive of the allogromiid genera Argillotuba and Nodellum and
the genus Carterina which was separated from the agglutinated foraminifera
on account of its peculiar wall structure on which basis it was at first
transferred to the suborder Carterinina and later to the order Carterinida(Loeblich
and Tappan,1987,1992).
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