Foraminifera taxon details
Cribratina Sample, 1932 †
736986 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:736986)
accepted
Genus
Nodosaria texana Conrad, 1857 † accepted as Cribratina texana (Conrad, 1857) † (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Sample, C. H. (1932). Cribratina, a New Genus of Foraminifera from the Comanchean of Texas. <em>American Midland Naturalist.</em> 13(5): 319-322., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/2420177
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Diagnosis Test free, large, up to 10 mm in length, elongate, uniserial and rectilinear, chambers closely appressed, sutures straight,...
Diagnosis Test free, large, up to 10 mm in length, elongate, uniserial and rectilinear, chambers closely appressed, sutures straight, horizontal and constricted; wall thick, agglutinated, of medium-to coarse-grained quartz and other mineral particles, with subepidermal alveolar layer; aperture terminal, cribrate, with many irregular and subangular openings on a produced area of the final chamber face. L. Cretaceous (Albian) to U. Cretaceous (L. Cenomanian); USA: Texas, Oklahoma. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Cribratina Sample, 1932 †. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=736986 on 2025-05-23
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Sample, C. H. (1932). Cribratina, a New Genus of Foraminifera from the Comanchean of Texas. <em>American Midland Naturalist.</em> 13(5): 319-322., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/2420177
page(s): p. 319 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): p. 319 [details] Available for editors
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Diagnosis Test free, large, up to 10 mm in length, elongate, uniserial and rectilinear, chambers closely appressed, sutures straight, horizontal and constricted; wall thick, agglutinated, of medium-to coarse-grained quartz and other mineral particles, with subepidermal alveolar layer; aperture terminal, cribrate, with many irregular and subangular openings on a produced area of the final chamber face. L. Cretaceous (Albian) to U. Cretaceous (L. Cenomanian); USA: Texas, Oklahoma. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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