Foraminifera taxon details

Halkyardia Heron-Allen & Earland, 1918 †

520886  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:520886)

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Halkyard, E. (1918). The fossil foraminifera of the Blue Marl of the Côte des Basques, Biarritz. <em>Memoirs and proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society.</em> 62 (6): 1-145., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39515003
page(s): p. 107 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2021). World Foraminifera Database. Halkyardia Heron-Allen & Earland, 1918 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=520886 on 2024-04-24
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2010-09-17 12:15:07Z
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2010-09-21 06:54:10Z
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original description Halkyard, E. (1918). The fossil foraminifera of the Blue Marl of the Côte des Basques, Biarritz. <em>Memoirs and proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society.</em> 62 (6): 1-145., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39515003
page(s): p. 107 [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 commonly small, up to about 1.3 mm in diameter, biconvex, spiral side more convex, megalospheric test with large hemispherical protoconch, large deuteroconch, and two primary auxiliary chambers, later chambers in numerous cycles, small as seen from the spiral side, arched toward the periphery and alternating in position with those of the preceding cycle, only those of the final whorl visible on the opposite side, where the chambers appear elongate, inflated, and tubular, umbilical region beneath the embryonic chambers filled with a wide perforate plug formed by horizontal lamellae and connecting pillars, periphery subangular, peripheral outline lobulate; wall calcareous, optically radial, thickened by addition of lamellae on the distinctly perforate spiral side; no aperture other than the surface pores. M. Eocene (Lutetian) to M. Oligocene (Rupelian); Yugoslavia; France; Germany; USSR: Azerbaydzhan; India; Pacific: Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]