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CHAPTER XII THE SPIRAL SHELLS OF THE FORAMINIFERA

A scientific illustration showing various orientations and morphological variations of shell-like or seed-like structures.

When the linear dimensions of successive chambers are in continued proportion, then, in order that the whole shell may constitute a logarithmic spiral, it is necessary that the several chambers should subtend equal angles of revolution at the pole. In the case of the Miliolidae this is obviously the case (Fig. 311); for in this family the chambers lie in two rows (Biloculina), or three rows (Triloculina), or in some other small number of series: so that the angles subtended by them are large, simple fractions of the circular arc, such as 180ô¯ or 120ô¯. In many of the nautiloid forms, such as Cyclammina (Fig. 312), the angles

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