Foraminifera taxon details
Spiropsammia Seiglie & Baker, 1984 †
737940 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:737940)
accepted
Genus
Cyclammina uhligi Schubert, 1902 † accepted as Spiropsammia uhligi (Schubert, 1902) † (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Seiglie, G. A.; Baker, M. B. (1984). Some West African Cenozoic Agglutinated Foraminifers with Inner Structures: Taxonomy, Age and Evolution. <em>Micropaleontology.</em> 29(4)[1983]: 391., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/1485516
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Spiropsammia Seiglie & Baker, 1984 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=737940 on 2024-05-02
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Seiglie, G. A.; Baker, M. B. (1984). Some West African Cenozoic Agglutinated Foraminifers with Inner Structures: Taxonomy, Age and Evolution. <em>Micropaleontology.</em> 29(4)[1983]: 391., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/1485516
page(s): p. 396 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Diagnosis Test much compressed, with chambers in two to three planispirally enrolled and evolute whorls at least in the early stage, later may be uncoiled and rectilinear with a few equitant chambers; wall agglutinated; interior subdivided by numerous elongate septula that project inward from the chamber roof and outer wall as in Pavonitina; aperture terminal, rounded, with a low bordering lip. Oligocene to L. Pliocene; Italy; Angola; Cameroon. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]