Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Lamarck, J. B. (1801). Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux; Présentant leurs caractères essentiels et leur distribution, d'apres la considération de leurs rapports naturels et de leur organisation, et suivant l'arrangement établi dans les galeries du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, parmi leurs dépouilles conservées; Précédé du discours d'ouverture du Cours de Zoologie, donné dans le Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle l'an 8 de la République. Published by the author and Deterville, Paris: viii + 432 pp., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14117719 page(s): p. 376 [details]
original description
(of Discolites Montfort, 1808 †) Montfort P. [Denys de]. (1808-1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. <em>Paris: Schoell.</em> Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 [1808]. Vol. 2: pp. 676 + 16 [1810 (before 28 May)]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10571 page(s): p. 186 [details]
original description
(of Orbitulites Roemer, 1849 †) Roemer, C. F. (1849). Texas. Mit besonderer Rücksicht auf deutsche Auswanderung und die physischen Verhältnisse des Landes nach eigener Beobachtung geschildert von Dr. Ferdinand Roemer. Adolph Marcus, Bonn, 464 pp., available online at https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth202844/m1/1/ page(s): p. 392 [details]
original description
(of Discolithus Fortis, 1802 †) Fortis, A. (1802). Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle de l'Italie et des pays adjacent. 2: 1-362., available online at https://books.google.pt/books/about/Mémoires_pour_servir_à_l_histoire_natu.html?hl=nl&id=iAMOAAAAQAAJ page(s): p. 97 [details]
original description
(of Orbitulites Goldfuss, 1826 †) Goldfuss, G. A. (1826-1833). Petrefacta Germaniae tam ea, quae in Museo Universitatis Regiae Borussicae Fridericiae Wilhelmiae Rhenanae servantur quam alia quaecunque in Museis Hoeninghusiano, Muensteriano aliisque extant, iconibus et descriptionibus illustrata. Erster Theil. (Arnz & Comp.: Düsseldorf): 1-252, pls I-LXXI. [I-VIII, 1-76, pls. 1-25 (1826); 77-164, pls. 26-50 (1829); 165-240, pls. 51-71, 1 unnumbered plate (1831); 241-252 (1833)] [publication dates from: Quenstedt, W. (1963). Clavis bibliographica. In: Westphal, F. (ed.), Fossilium Catalogus, I. Animalia, pars 102. 118 pp. s'Gravenhage: Junk.]. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50235037 page(s): p. 41; pl. 12, fig. 8 [details]
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 [request]
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Diagnosis Test large, discoidal, very slightly biconcave, large proloculus and second chamber forming an inflated nucleoconch, later cyclic chambers subdivided into many chamberlets, those of successive cycles alternating in position, chamberlets of a single cycle not interconnected but those of successive cycles connected by a crosswise oblique stolon system, annular chambers less defined in the later stage and chamberlets separated by thickened oblique walls; aperture of numerous rounded openings in transverse rows crossing the peripheral margin. L. to M. Eocene; France; Spain; Italy; Egypt. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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