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NUMMULITE

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 911 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NUMMULITE  , NtTh(MULITES, A. d'

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Orbigny's name for a genus of Perforate
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Foraminifera (q.v.), distinguished by the flattened, lenticular discoid
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shell of many turns, finely perforated;
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chambers subdivided by incomplete septa into squarish chamber-lets . This genus is especially abundant in
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Eocene Limestones, which attain
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great thickness around the Mediterranean
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basin; the Pyramids of
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Egypt are built of it .

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