Foraminifera taxon details
Tentifrons Loeblich & Tappan, 1957 †
722091 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:722091)
accepted
Genus
Tentifrons barnardi Loeblich & Tappan, 1957 † (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1957). Eleven New Genera of Foraminifera. <em>Bulletin United States National Museum.</em> 215: 223-232., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32376730
page(s): p. 225; note: Genus is feminine. [details]
page(s): p. 225; note: Genus is feminine. [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Tentifrons Loeblich & Tappan, 1957 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=722091 on 2024-03-29
Date
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original description
Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1957). Eleven New Genera of Foraminifera. <em>Bulletin United States National Museum.</em> 215: 223-232., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32376730
page(s): p. 225; note: Genus is feminine. [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 [request]
page(s): p. 225; note: Genus is feminine. [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 [request]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test with early chambers in citharine arrangement, then uncoiled with rectilinear chevron-shaped chambers, sutures elevated and chambers excavated in the early stage, in the adult attached to the substrate, with slightly inflated chambers of irregular outline and depressed sutures; wall calcareous, perforate, radial in structure, surface smooth between the elevated sutures in the early stage, chambers of the attached stage with fistulose projections and a strongly papillate surface; aperture terminal, radiate in the early stage, later consisting of openings on each of the fistulose extensions. U. Cretaceous (Senonian); England. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]