Foraminifera taxon details
Asterorbis Vaughan & Cole, 1932 †
722377 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:722377)
accepted
Genus
Asterorbis rooki Vaughan & Cole, 1932 † (type by original designation)
Cryptasterorbis M.G. Rutten, 1935 † · unaccepted (Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan,...)
Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987 Nomen translatum
Lepidorbitoides (Cryptasterorbis) M.G. Rutten, 1935 † · unaccepted (Subjective junior synonym in...)
Subjective junior synonym in opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987
- Species Asterorbis aguayoi Palmer, 1934 †
- Species Asterorbis cubensis Palmer, 1934 †
- Species Asterorbis havanensis Palmer, 1934 †
- Species Asterorbis macei Palmer, 1934 †
- Species Asterorbis rooki Vaughan & Cole, 1932 †
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
masculine
Vaughan, T. W.; Cole, W. S. (1932). Cretaceous orbitoidal foraminifera from the Gulf states and central America. <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A.</em> 18: 611-618., available online at https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/18/10/611.full.pdf
page(s): p. 611 [details] Available for editors
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Diagnosis Test small to medium sized, up to 4.5 mm in diameter, lenticular, umbonate, stellate, with four to eight rays that may be...
Diagnosis Test small to medium sized, up to 4.5 mm in diameter, lenticular, umbonate, stellate, with four to eight rays that may be elevated as ribs, surface papillose with larger pustules on the umbo, bilocular embryo surrounded by thick wall and two large auxiliary chambers forming a quadriserial juvenarium, equatorial chambers in horizontal section diamond shaped to ogival in plan and increase in height from the center to the test periphery, up to sixteen layers of lateral chambers form distinct tiers on both sides of the equatorial layer, the layers decreasing in number from the umbo toward the periphery, where the equatorial layer is left exposed without lateral chambers, pillars well developed. U. Cretaceous (Campanian to Maastrichtian); USA: Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida; Guatemala; Cuba; central equatorial Pacific (DSDP site 315A). (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Asterorbis Vaughan & Cole, 1932 †. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/Foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=722377 on 2025-05-28
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Vaughan, T. W.; Cole, W. S. (1932). Cretaceous orbitoidal foraminifera from the Gulf states and central America. <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A.</em> 18: 611-618., available online at https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/18/10/611.full.pdf
page(s): p. 611 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Lepidorbitoides (Cryptasterorbis) M.G. Rutten, 1935 †) Rutten, M. G., 1935, Larger foraminifera of northern Santa Clara Province, Cuba, Joumal of Paleontology 9:527-545.
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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
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page(s): p. 611 [details] Available for editors

original description (of Lepidorbitoides (Cryptasterorbis) M.G. Rutten, 1935 †) Rutten, M. G., 1935, Larger foraminifera of northern Santa Clara Province, Cuba, Joumal of Paleontology 9:527-545.
page(s): p. 533 [details] Available for editors

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

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Diagnosis Test small to medium sized, up to 4.5 mm in diameter, lenticular, umbonate, stellate, with four to eight rays that may be elevated as ribs, surface papillose with larger pustules on the umbo, bilocular embryo surrounded by thick wall and two large auxiliary chambers forming a quadriserial juvenarium, equatorial chambers in horizontal section diamond shaped to ogival in plan and increase in height from the center to the test periphery, up to sixteen layers of lateral chambers form distinct tiers on both sides of the equatorial layer, the layers decreasing in number from the umbo toward the periphery, where the equatorial layer is left exposed without lateral chambers, pillars well developed. U. Cretaceous (Campanian to Maastrichtian); USA: Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida; Guatemala; Cuba; central equatorial Pacific (DSDP site 315A). (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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