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The calpionellids are urn-shaped (Fig. 1) planktic Protozoans that were first described (Calpionella; Fig. 1(1)) from the Late Jurassic (Tithonian) limestones of Alps (Lorenz in II Der südliche Rhätikon, Berichte der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Freiburg 12:35–95, 1902). Calpionellids are typically found in deep-sea deposits of the Late Jurassic and, less frequently, in the earliest Cretaceous. Calpionellids are typically found in deep-sea deposits of the Late Jurassic and, less frequently, in the earliest Cretaceous.

Major calpionellid genera (1–6), lorica (test wall) (7–12), morphology (13–16) and sectional details (modified after Remane 1962). 1: Calpionella Lorenz; 2: Calpionellites Colom; 3: Calpionellopsis Colom; 4: Crassicollaria Remane; 5: Tintinnopsella Colom; 6: Lorenziella Knauer and Nagy; 7: Calpionella alpina Lorenz; 8: Calpionellites darderi (Colom); 9: Remaniella cadischiana (Colom); 10: Tintinnopsella carpathica (Murgeanu and Filipescu); 11: Lorenziella hungarica Knauer and Nagy; 12–13: Calpionellid morphology ; 14–15: Tintinnopsella longa (Colom); 16-18: Calpionellopsis simplex (Colom); 19–25: Tintinnopsella carpathica (Murgeanu and Filipescu). Figure 1((6) and (17–26)): Modified after Remane (1964); 7–12: Modified after Remane (1985); 13–16: Modified after Remane (1962)

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Jain, S. (2020). Calpionellids. In: Fundamentals of Invertebrate Palaeontology. Springer Geology. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-3962-8_11

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