Foraminifera taxon details
Shanita Brönnimann, Whittaker & Zaninetti, 1978 †
721947 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:721947)
accepted
Genus
Shanita amosi Brönnimann, Whittaker & Zaninetti, 1978 † (type by original designation)
- Species Shanita amosi Brönnimann, Whittaker & Zaninetti, 1978 †
- Species Shanita bronnimanni Zaninetti, Altiner, Çatal & Decrouez, 1982 †
- Species Shanita chagouensis Sheng & He, 1983 †
- Species Shanita intercalaria Brönnimann, Whittaker & Zaninetti, 1978 †
- Species Shanita pamirica Leven, 1991 †
- Species Shanita thawtinti Zaw Win et al., 2011 †
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Brönnimann, P.; Whittaker, J. E.; Zaninetti, L. (1978). Shanita, a new pillared miliolacean foraminifer from the Late Permian of Burma and Thailand. <em>Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia.</em> 84: 63-92.
page(s): p. 73 [details]
page(s): p. 73 [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Shanita Brönnimann, Whittaker & Zaninetti, 1978 †. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=721947 on 2024-05-02
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original description
Brönnimann, P.; Whittaker, J. E.; Zaninetti, L. (1978). Shanita, a new pillared miliolacean foraminifer from the Late Permian of Burma and Thailand. <em>Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia.</em> 84: 63-92.
page(s): p. 73 [details]
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
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page(s): p. 73 [details]
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
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Diagnosis Test large, up to 4.0 mm in diameter, subglobular, biumbilicate, proloculus followed by undivided enrolled second chamber that is streptospirally coiled in the early stage, then becomes planispiral, completely involute, with very wide and low chamber lumen that may be undivided in the early whorls, but in at least the later ones has numerous vertical pillars in alternating rows from umbilicus to umbilicus, or pillars may be more irregularly distributed; wall calcareous, thick, imperforate, recrystallized but probably originally porcelaneous; aperture terminal, slitlike, possibly subdivided by the pillars into shorter slits. U. Permian (Murgabian to Dzhulfian); Burma; Oman; Thailand; China; Turkey; Iran. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]