Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Neugeboren, J. L. (1850). Foraminiferen von Felső-Lapugy, beschrieben und nach der Natur gezeichnet. Zweiter Artikel. Geschlecht Frondicularia Defrance; Amphimorphina, ein neues Foraminiferen-Geschlecht. <em>Verhandlungen und Mittheilungen des siebenbürgischen Vereins für Naturwissenschaften zu Hermannstadt.</em> 1 (8): 118-127., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11525376 page(s): p. 125 [details]
original description
(of Nodomorphina Cushman, 1927 †) Cushman, J. A. (1927). Some new genera of the Foraminifera. <em>Contributions from the Cushman laboratory for foraminiferal research.</em> 2(4): 77-81., available online at https://cushmanfoundation.allenpress.com/Portals/_default/files/pubarchive/cclfr/2cclfr4.pdf page(s): p. 80 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record
Hayward, B.W., Kawagata, S., Sabaa, A.T., Grenfell, H.R., van Kerckhoven, L., Johnson, K., and Thomas, E., 2012. The last global extinction (Mid-Pleistocene) of deep-sea benthic foraminifera (Chrysalogoniidae, Ellipsoidinidae, Glandulonodosariidae, Plectofrondiculariidae, Pleursostomellidae, Stilostomellidae), their Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic history and taxonomy: Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research Special Publication, v. 43, p. 408., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256078664 [details] Available for editors [request]
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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test elongate, may be compressed in the early stage, microspheric test with six to ten biserially arranged chambers in the early stage, later uniserial, megalospheric test uniserial throughout, sutures may be slightly arched in the flattened early stage, straight and horizontal in the later stage with more inflated chambers; wall calcareous, perforate, surface smooth in the early part, later chambers may have longitudinal costae; aperture radiate in the early stage, later cribrate with three to eight openings and may have a small apertural chamberlet. M. Eocene to Holocene; cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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