Foraminifera taxon details

Planispirina Seguenza, 1880

478653  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:478653)

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Planispirina communis Seguenza, 1880 (type by subsequent designation)

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Seguenza, G. (1880). Le formazioni terziarie nella provincia di Reggio (Calabria). <em>Memorie della Classe di Scienze Fisiche Matematiche e Naturali della Regia Accademia del Lincei.</em> 3(6):1–445, pl. 1-17., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/89318
page(s): p. 319 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Planispirina Seguenza, 1880. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=478653 on 2024-04-25
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2010-06-07 04:45:58Z
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original description Seguenza, G. (1880). Le formazioni terziarie nella provincia di Reggio (Calabria). <em>Memorie della Classe di Scienze Fisiche Matematiche e Naturali della Regia Accademia del Lincei.</em> 3(6):1–445, pl. 1-17., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/89318
page(s): p. 319 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source 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, up to 2 mm in diameter, discoidal, auriculate in outline, laterally compressed, biumbilicate, periphery carinate, globular proloculus followed by a few rapidly enlarging planispiral whorls, about three chambers per whorl in the later stage, septa oblique, curved backward at the periphery; wall calcareous, imperforate, porcelaneous, thick, commonly obscuring the early whorls; aperture at the open end of the final chamber, a high subtriangular opening, with a height nearly equal to the test radius. Pliocene to Holocene; cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]