Foraminifera taxon details
Dizerina Meriç, 1978 †
722361 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:722361)
accepted
Genus
Dizerina anatolica Meriç, 1978 † (type by original designation)
- Species Dizerina anatolica Meriç, 1978 †
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Meriç, E. (1978). Dizerina, a New Genus from the Upper Maastrichtian of Northeastern Turkey. <em>Micropaleontology.</em> 24(1): 97-108., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/1485421
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Dizerina Meriç, 1978 †. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=722361 on 2024-05-11
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original description
Meriç, E. (1978). Dizerina, a New Genus from the Upper Maastrichtian of Northeastern Turkey. <em>Micropaleontology.</em> 24(1): 97-108., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/1485421
page(s): p. 97 [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. 97 [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 of medium size, 1 mm to 2 mm in diameter, lenticular, megalospheric embryo of nearly equal-sized protoconch and deuteroconch, followed by up to twenty-seven large spirally enrolled chambers, the spire comprising up to half the test diameter, later arcuate equatorial chambers of lesser height, commonly in a low trochospiral coil rather than a flat plane, lateral chambers in regular layers on both sides of the equatorial layer but number of layers not constant in all specimens, pillars few and thin, periphery rounded, surface apparently with sparse granules. U. Cretaceous (U. Maastrichtian); Turkey. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]