piretelline

plural piretellines

1. A foraminifer of the family Pirellinae.

   However, the dolonal spines of D. spinosa and D. mackenziensis are not found in piretellines.

   1986, Ordovician (Llandeilo and Caradoc) Beyrichiocope Ostracoda from England and Wales, voume 139, issue 1, page 20

   2 more examples

   […] but the height ( tr.) and the strong convexity of the dolon in separate valves of the other piretelline genera suggest that they may be similar in this respect.

   1956, Bulletin of the Geological Institution of the University of Upsala, Volumes 36-37, page 278

   Schallreuter provisionally placed Duringia in the Piretellinae (Eurychilinidae) because the dolon of D. spinsa is similar but it also has dolonal spines not normally present in piretellines.

   1973, Peter Colley Sylvester-Bradley, David J. Siveter, A Stereo-atlas of Ostracod Shells - Volume 11, Part 1, page 3