Foraminifera taxon details
Meandrospiranella Salaj, 1969 †
721932 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:721932)
accepted
Genus
Meandrospiranella samueli Salaj, 1967 † (type by original designation)
- Species Meandrospiranella irregularis Salaj, 1967 †
- Species Meandrospiranella samueli Salaj, 1967 †
- Species Meandrospiranella planispira Oravecz-Scheffer, 1971 † accepted as Semimeandrospira planispira (Oravecz-Scheffer, 1971) † (unaccepted > superseded combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Salaj, J., 1969, Meandrospiranella nov. gen., a new mid-Triassic foraminifer from the west Carpathians, Czechoslovakia, Joumal of Paleontology 43:1294-1295.
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Diagnosis Test free, small, elongate, proloculus followed by elongate, undivided tubular second chamber that coils streptospirally in...
Diagnosis Test free, small, elongate, proloculus followed by elongate, undivided tubular second chamber that coils streptospirally in short zigzag bends in a Meandrospira-like stage of about five whorls, later somewhat irregular and uncoiling; wall calcareous, imperforate, porcelaneous; aperture terminal, simple. M. Triassic (Anisian) to U. Cretaceous (Cenomanian); Czechoslovakia; Romania; USA: Texas. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Meandrospiranella Salaj, 1969 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=721932 on 2025-05-22
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Salaj, J., 1969, Meandrospiranella nov. gen., a new mid-Triassic foraminifer from the west Carpathians, Czechoslovakia, Joumal of Paleontology 43:1294-1295.
page(s): p. 1294 [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]
additional source Altıner, D.; Payne, J. L.; Lehrmann, D. J.; Özkan-Altıner, S.; Kelley, B. M.; Summers, M. M.; Yu, M. (2021). Triassic Foraminifera from the Great Bank of Guizhou, Nanpanjiang Basin, south China: taxonomic account, biostratigraphy, and implications for recovery from end-Permian mass extinction. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 1-53., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2021.10 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): p. 1294 [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]additional source Altıner, D.; Payne, J. L.; Lehrmann, D. J.; Özkan-Altıner, S.; Kelley, B. M.; Summers, M. M.; Yu, M. (2021). Triassic Foraminifera from the Great Bank of Guizhou, Nanpanjiang Basin, south China: taxonomic account, biostratigraphy, and implications for recovery from end-Permian mass extinction. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 1-53., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2021.10 [details] Available for editors
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Diagnosis Test free, small, elongate, proloculus followed by elongate, undivided tubular second chamber that coils streptospirally in short zigzag bends in a Meandrospira-like stage of about five whorls, later somewhat irregular and uncoiling; wall calcareous, imperforate, porcelaneous; aperture terminal, simple. M. Triassic (Anisian) to U. Cretaceous (Cenomanian); Czechoslovakia; Romania; USA: Texas. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
