Foraminifera taxon details

Fijinonion Hornibrook, 1964

520924  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:520924)

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Genus
Astrononion (Fijinonion) Hornibrook, 1964 · unaccepted (Opinion of Saidova (1975),...)  
Opinion of Saidova (1975), Loeblich and Tappan (1987) Nomen translatum

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(of Astrononion (Fijinonion) Hornibrook, 1964) Hornibrook, N. deB. (1964). The Foraminiferal genus Astrononion Cushman and Edwards. <em>Micropaleontology.</em> 10: 333-338., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/1484580
page(s): p. 338 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Fijinonion Hornibrook, 1964. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=520924 on 2024-04-23
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2010-09-17 12:34:14Z
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2010-09-21 06:54:10Z
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2013-03-08 15:09:52Z
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2014-05-15 08:44:24Z
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2019-09-09 18:29:30Z
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original description  (of Astrononion (Fijinonion) Hornibrook, 1964) Hornibrook, N. deB. (1964). The Foraminiferal genus Astrononion Cushman and Edwards. <em>Micropaleontology.</em> 10: 333-338., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/1484580
page(s): p. 338 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1987). Foraminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. 970pp., available online at https://books.google.pt/books?id=n_BqCQAAQBAJ [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
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Diagnosis Test relatively large, planispiral, and involute, moderately compressed, biumbilicate, chambers numerous, each with a large arched triangular apertural plate arising at the umbilical end of the apertural lip, those of successive chambers fused along their borders into a tube that opens at the outer margin, sutures thickened, curved, nearly flush, periphery rounded; wall calcareous, hyaline, optically granular, finely perforate; aperture a low interiomarginal, equatorial slit, extending laterally to the umbilici and bordered by a narrow lip. L. Miocene to Holocene; Fiji; New Zealand. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]