Foraminifera taxon details
Wilfordia Adams, 1965 †
722294 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:722294)
accepted
Genus
Wilfordia sarawakensis Adams, 1965 † (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Adams, C. G. (1965). The Foraminifera and stratigraphy of the Melinau Limestone, Sarawak, and its importance in Tertiary correlation. <em>Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society.</em> 121(1-4): 283-338., available online at https://doi.org/10.1144/gsjgs.121.1.0283
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Wilfordia Adams, 1965 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=722294 on 2024-04-24
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Adams, C. G. (1965). The Foraminifera and stratigraphy of the Melinau Limestone, Sarawak, and its importance in Tertiary correlation. <em>Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society.</em> 121(1-4): 283-338., available online at https://doi.org/10.1144/gsjgs.121.1.0283
page(s): p. 326 [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. 326 [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 globular, megalospheric embryo consists of proloculus and three to eight smaller chambers that possibly may form a planispiral coil, with a few coarse radial spines arising from the embryonic chambers, possibly in a single plane, and projecting above the surface of the chambers, later stage with many rectangular lateral chamberlets added in four to eight layers and arranged in slightly irregular radial tiers; wall calcareous, chamberlet floors and roof perforate, pseudopillars formed by thickened lateral walls. U. Eocene; Malaysia: Sarawak. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]