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Walter J. Parr. 
Holotypt^ from Sample 6 {Lingula beflw). 
This species is represented by a single specimen. Its identification has 
been a matter of some difficulty, but after an examination of the available 
literature, it appears that it is a tubicolous worm, forming a tube like the 
Re(ient Aniphictme auricoma (O. K. Miiller). No foraminifer known constructs 
a similar tost. 
A. auriconm occurs in tlie North Atlantic and normally constructs its 
long, thin-walled, tapering, slightly curved tube of sand grains. On muddy 
bottoms (McIntosh, 1894 and 1922), broken sponge spicules are used instead 
of the sand grains, the spicule fragments being so arranged that those in one 
row alternate with those in the next, like the bonding of bricks in a wall, to 
form the strongest tube possible. A minimum of cement is used to hold 
the spicules together and the r(!sultant tube is thin-walled and most neatly 
constructed and finished. 
Nothing showing a wall .structure like that found in the spicular tubes 
of A. auricoma ap])ears to have been recorded as a fossil and the present speci- 
men from the I^orTuian is tliorefore of unusual interest. While it also consists 
of a similar layer oF siaeular fragments, comparison with the figures of A, 
auricoma given by McIntosh (loc, ciL) and by Heron-Alien and Earland (1909, 
pi. XXXV., fig. 14) and with examples of the Hecent species for which I am 
indebted to my frimd, Mr. Arthur Earland, F.R.M.8.. show.s the fossil form 
to b(^ flistinct, being less neatly built and also smaller than A. auricoma. It 
should be add(Hl tliat, while this comyjarison with A. aiivicoina has been made, 
the two forms may bo unn4ated although apparcaitly similar ; the Pt^rmian 
species has accordingly b(jen doubtfully referred to the genus Amphictene. 
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1927 : Pennsylvanian Foraminifera from Michigan. Contr. Cushman Lab., III., pp. 
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