Foraminifera taxon details
Miosorites Seiglie & Grove, 1977 †
722037 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:722037)
accepted
Genus
Orbitolites americana Cushman, 1918 † accepted as Miosorites americanus (Cushman, 1918) † (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
masculine
Seiglie, G. A.; Grove, K.; Rivera, J. A. (1977). Revision of some Caribbean Archaiasinae, new genera, species and subspecies. <em>Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae.</em> 70: 855-883., available online at https://doi.org/10.5169/SEALS-164647
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Miosorites Seiglie & Grove, 1977 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=722037 on 2024-09-24
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Seiglie, G. A.; Grove, K.; Rivera, J. A. (1977). Revision of some Caribbean Archaiasinae, new genera, species and subspecies. <em>Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae.</em> 70: 855-883., available online at https://doi.org/10.5169/SEALS-164647
page(s): p. 866 [details] Available for editors [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 [request]
page(s): p. 866 [details] Available for editors
[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
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Diagnosis Test large, discoidal, biconcave, from 7 mm to 30 mm in diameter, and up to 1.3 mm thick at the periphery, microspheric test with early peneropline stage, megalospheric proloculus followed by reniform second chamber, then with evolute peneropline and reniform stage, chambers cyclic in the later stage, subdivided into chamberlets by pairs of radial septula or pili-intradermal plates that are infolded from the lateral walls to the edge of the median rows of apertural openings, radial septula of successive chambers alternating in position, no internal pillars present; wall calcareous, porcelaneous, surface smooth, without punctae or striae; aperture of one to five rows of rounded to ovate openings in a median peripheral groove. L. to U. Miocene, possibly Pliocene; Jamaica; Cuba; Puerto Rico; Santo Domingo; Mexico; USA: Florida. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
