Foraminifera taxon details

Sivasella Sirel & Gündüz, 1978 †

722355  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:722355)

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marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
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Sirel, E.; Gündüz, H. (1978). Description of Sivasella n. gen. (Foraminifera) from the Maastrichtian of Sivas (Central Turkey). <em>Turkiye Jeoloji Kurumn Bulteni.</em> 21: 67-75. [details]   
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Sivasella Sirel & Gündüz, 1978 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=722355 on 2024-04-20
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original description Sirel, E.; Gündüz, H. (1978). Description of Sivasella n. gen. (Foraminifera) from the Maastrichtian of Sivas (Central Turkey). <em>Turkiye Jeoloji Kurumn Bulteni.</em> 21: 67-75. [details]   

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  PDF available [request] 

additional source Chiocchini, M.; Mancinelli, A. (2001). Sivasella monolateralis Sirel and Gunduz, 1978 (Foraminiferida) in the Maastrichtian of Latium (Italy). <em>Revue de Micropaléontologie.</em> 44(4): 267-277., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/s0035-1598(01)90099-6 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
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Diagnosis Test relatively small, up to 1.3 mm in diameter, low conical form, equatorial chambers arcuate, with somewhat smaller and irregularly arranged arcuate lateral chambers piled on one side and with lamellar thickening on the other side decreasing in thickness toward the periphery, megalospheric embryonic apparatus large, possibly bilocular, and surrounded by a thick imperforate wall; wall calcareous, hyaline; equatorial chambers communicate through stolons. U. Cretaceous (Maastrichtian); central Turkey: Sivas; Greece. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]