Foraminifera taxon details
Ammospirata Cushman, 1933 †
520876 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:520876)
accepted
Genus
Pavonina mexicana Cushman, 1926 † accepted as Ammospirata mexicana (Cushman, 1926) † (type by original designation)
- Species Ammospirata levyensis Puri, 1957 †
- Species Ammospirata mexicana (Cushman, 1926) †
- Species Ammospirata kiscelliana Sztrákos, 1979 † accepted as Pavonitina kiscelliana (Sztrákos, 1979) † (Opinion of Cicha et al. (1998))
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
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
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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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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 [request]
page(s): p. 32 pl. 3 fig. 4 [details] Available for editors
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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]
