Foraminifera taxon details
Adrahentina Bilotte, 1978 †
721263 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:721263)
accepted
Genus
Adrahentina iberica Bilotte, 1978 † (type by monotypy)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Bilotte, M. (1978). Adrahentina iberica nov. gen., nov. sp. Miliolidé nouveau du Maestrichtien pyrénéen. <em>Geobios.</em> 11(1): 125-131., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/s0016-6995(78)80027-8
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Adrahentina Bilotte, 1978 †. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=721263 on 2024-04-16
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Bilotte, M. (1978). Adrahentina iberica nov. gen., nov. sp. Miliolidé nouveau du Maestrichtien pyrénéen. <em>Geobios.</em> 11(1): 125-131., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/s0016-6995(78)80027-8
page(s): p. 126 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record 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 [request]
page(s): p. 126 [details] Available for editors
[request] basis of record 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
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Diagnosis Test large, up to about 2 mm in diameter, ovoid to subspherical, megalospheric test with large globular proloculus, microspheric early stage not observed, megalospheric proloculus followed by about ten spherical chambers, each completely enveloping the test as added, internally many radial pillars arise from the chamber floor but not all reach the chamber roof, pillars of a thickness about equal to that of the chamber walls; outer wall forming the chamber roof of porcelaneous pellicular calcite, with relatively thick agglutinated layer of quartz particles added as a floor for each new chamber and forming the inner pillars; aperture not observed, probably with a trematophore. U. Cretaceous (Maastrichtian); Spain. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]