Foraminifera taxon details

Reticulopalmula Loeblich & Tappan, 1986 †

722084  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:722084)

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Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1986). Some New and Revised Genera and Families of Hyaline Calcareous Foraminiferida (Protozoa). <em>Transactions of the American Microscopical Society.</em> 105(3): 239-265., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/3226297
page(s): p. 245 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2021). World Foraminifera Database. Reticulopalmula Loeblich & Tappan, 1986 †. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=722084 on 2024-04-24
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original description Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1986). Some New and Revised Genera and Families of Hyaline Calcareous Foraminiferida (Protozoa). <em>Transactions of the American Microscopical Society.</em> 105(3): 239-265., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/3226297
page(s): p. 245 [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 large, about 1 mm in length, palmate, slightly flattened, about six chambers in an early planispiral coil, later chambers uncoiled, rectilinear, broad, low, and equitant, bending about 90¡ at the midpoint of the test, sutures obscured by the surface ornamentation, periphery with thin irregular or fimbriate keel; wall calcareous, radial, surface with coarse mesh of rounded to irregular areas formed by sharp ridgelike elevations, the mesh completely covering the early part of the test and obscuring the sutures but less prominent on the final one to few chambers where the surface may be smooth, wall coarsely perforate in the intermesh areas; aperture terminal, with slits radiating from the central ovate opening. L. Eocene (Cuisian) to M. Oligocene (Rupelian); Cuba; USA: Alabama, Mississippi, California. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]