Foraminifera taxon details

Nummulitoidea Blainville, 1827

519456  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:519456)

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Foraminifera (2021). Nummulitoidea Blainville, 1827. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera./aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=519456 on 2024-03-19
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2010-09-15 20:38:30Z
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2013-03-08 14:25:27Z
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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 planispiral, evolute to involute, lenticular, discoidal to globular; chambers numerous and may be subdivided into chamberlets, equatorial chambers and lateral chamberlets may be differentiated, and later chambers may be added in annular series; septal flap present as in Rotaliacea; subsutural canals, spiral marginal cord and spiral canal system present in early forms but modified in later ones or replaced by intraseptal canals in advanced forms. Paleocene to Holocene. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]