Foraminifera taxon details

Flectospira Crespin & Belford, 1957 †

721930  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:721930)

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Genus
Flectospira prima Crespin & Belford, 1957 † (type by original designation)

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marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Crespin, I.; Belford, D. J. (1957). New genera and species of foraminifera from the Lower Permian of Western Australia. <em>Contributions from the Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research.</em> 8: 73-76., available online at https://cushmanfoundation.allenpress.com/portals/_default/files/pubarchive/CCFFR/08ccffr2.pdf
page(s): p. 76 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Flectospira Crespin & Belford, 1957 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=721930 on 2024-03-29
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2013-03-08 13:53:47Z
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2017-12-15 15:23:50Z
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original description Crespin, I.; Belford, D. J. (1957). New genera and species of foraminifera from the Lower Permian of Western Australia. <em>Contributions from the Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research.</em> 8: 73-76., available online at https://cushmanfoundation.allenpress.com/portals/_default/files/pubarchive/CCFFR/08ccffr2.pdf
page(s): p. 76 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

basis of record 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 discoidal, proloculus followed by enrolled undivided tubular second chamber that bends back and forth in zigzags while coiling planispirally as in Meandrospira, coiling evolute so that earlier whorls and bends remain visible at the exterior; wall calcareous, imperforate, porcelaneous, surface smooth; aperture large, rounded, at the open end of the tube. L. Permian (Artinskian); Western Australia'. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]