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[[File:Fig 15.jpg|thumb|<font size="2">'''Fig. 1.''' Sections of ''Involutina liassica'' (Jones). Middle Lias, from Arzo, Ticino, Southern Switzerland. Transparent light micrographs. ''Involutina'' exhibits a lamellar-perforate, planispiral-evolute, dimorphic shell with a spherical megalosphere followed by a tubular chamber cavity without septa. Lateral walls ornamented by protuberant piles between coarse pores. Double arrow: shell axis.
'''a:''' axial section; '''e:''' [[equatorial section]]; ''o:'' [[oblique section]]; '''oc:''' oblique-centered section; '''ta:''' tangential section; '''tr:''' transverse section; (Hottinger, 2006; fig. 15)[http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/CG2006_M02/index.html] '''CC'''/BY-NC-SA)]]
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==Definition==
*''according to Hottinger (2006):''
'''AXIAL SECTION''' -  a slice bisecting the [[test]] in a plane coinciding with the [[axis of coiling]] and intersecting the [[proloculus]].



==See also==
*[[axis of coiling]]
*[[equatorial section]]
*[[oblique section]]
*[[proloculus]]
*[[test]]
==References==
Hottinger (2006), [http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/CG2006_M02/index.html Illustrated glossary of terms used in foraminiferal research]. [http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/uk-index.html Carnets de Géologie], [http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/CG2006_M02/index.html Memoir 2], ISSN 1634-0744               
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