Foraminifera taxon details

Ammospirata Cushman, 1933 †

520876  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:520876)

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marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
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Cushman, J. A. (1933). Some new foraminiferal genera. <em>Contributions from the Cushman laboratory for foraminiferal research.</em> 9(2): 32-38., available online at https://cushmanfoundation.allenpress.com/Portals/_default/files/pubarchive/cclfr/9cclfr2.pdf
page(s): p. 32 pl. 3 fig. 4 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Ammospirata Cushman, 1933 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=520876 on 2024-09-16
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2010-09-17 12:15:07Z
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2010-09-21 01:53:13Z
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2013-08-21 09:16:47Z
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2017-09-07 10:06:04Z
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original description Cushman, J. A. (1933). Some new foraminiferal genera. <em>Contributions from the Cushman laboratory for foraminiferal research.</em> 9(2): 32-38., available online at https://cushmanfoundation.allenpress.com/Portals/_default/files/pubarchive/cclfr/9cclfr2.pdf
page(s): p. 32 pl. 3 fig. 4 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
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Diagnosis Test free, palmate, compressed; globular proloculus followed by small planispiral coil of a few narrow elongate chambers in a single whorl, then a short biserial stage of a few pair of very broad low chambers that curve back at the periphery to nearly surround the early whorl, adult test with well-developed series of as many as fourteen broad, low, and strongly arched uniserial chambers, sutures thickened and elevated; wall finely agglutinated, smoothly finished; aperture terminal, multiple in the adult, consisting of a row of small pores in an elongate narrow depression on the upper margin of the final chamber. U. Eocene?; Oligocene; Mexico; USA: Texas, Florida. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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