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Distribution: DAVIES found this species from the uppermost Ranikot beds at Thai and from various levels in the Salt Range, India. Stratigraphie range: Lower Ypresian. Assilina sp. (pl. 1, figs. 14, 15) Test small, typically with inflated central part, with keeled border. Average diameter = 1.3 mm; average thickness = 0.3 mm. Externally the surface is smooth. The last whorl is observed, devoid of granules and the ribs, which stand out on the outer surface, correspond with the septa of the internal structure. This species appears to be similar with Assilina nili

, or A. minima recorded by DE LA HARPE (1883) from Gabal Ter near Esna, Upper Egypt, but differs from them by the smooth surface and the inflated central part. Occurence: This species appears in considerable number in the upper limestone beds of Gabal El Shaghab, Upper Egypt. GENUS Ranikothalia CAUDRI, 1944 In 1944 CAUDRI erected the genus Ranikothalia for the group of Caribbean and Indian Nummulites like species which are characterized by the "bluntly rounded chamber tops In horizontal section and the thickness of the coarsely gutted supplementary skeleton as compared with the majority of other Nummulites." The type species of Ranikothalia CAUDRI is Nummulites nuttalli DAVIES. Ranikothalia soldadensis (VAUGHAN and COLE, 1941) (pl. 4, fig. 3) 1941 Miscellanea soldadensis VAUGHAN and COLE, p. 36, pi. 4, fig. 8,9. 1944 Ranikothalia soldadensis (VAUGHAN and COLE). - Caudri, p. 23, pi. 4, fig. 19, pi. 5, fig. 24, 26. 1960 Ranikothalia soldadensis (VAUGHAN and COLE). - DROOGER, p. 312, pi. 5, fig. 1-14; Test much flattened, with roughly parallel sides, moderate in size, being 4 to 4.5 mm in diameter and 0.6 mm in thickness. It consists of 4 rather rapidly widening whorls. Surface generally smooth. The external surface of the marginal cord is fissured by many anastomosing grooves, which leave irregularly elongated islands in between. Occurence: This new species is recorded for the first time in the Lower Eocene of Gabal El Shaghab. Distribution: This species was described by VAUGHAN & COLE from the Lower Eocene of the Soldado Rocks, Trinidad.