Foraminifera taxon details
Gendrotella Maync, 1972 †
738400 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:738400)
accepted
Genus
Choffatella rugoretis Gendrot, 1968 † accepted as Gendrotella rugoretis (Gendrot, 1968) † (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Maync, W. (1972). Gendrotella n. gen. and Choffatella caronae n. sp. from the Lower Senonian of Southern France. <em>Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae.</em> 65(2): 355-359., available online at https://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=egh-001:1972:65#395
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Diagnosis Test discoidal to ovate in outline, flattened, numerous chambers per whorl in a rapidly enlarging planispiral coil, septa...
Diagnosis Test discoidal to ovate in outline, flattened, numerous chambers per whorl in a rapidly enlarging planispiral coil, septa gently arched at the midpoint on the flattened sides; wall agglutinated, compact and homogeneous; aperture a series of areal pores aligned vertically up the apertural face and reflected in thin section by the multiple passages through the septa. U. Cretaceous (Santonian); France. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Gendrotella Maync, 1972 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=738400 on 2025-06-02
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Maync, W. (1972). Gendrotella n. gen. and Choffatella caronae n. sp. from the Lower Senonian of Southern France. <em>Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae.</em> 65(2): 355-359., available online at https://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=egh-001:1972:65#395
page(s): p. 356 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): p. 356 [details] Available for editors
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Diagnosis Test discoidal to ovate in outline, flattened, numerous chambers per whorl in a rapidly enlarging planispiral coil, septa gently arched at the midpoint on the flattened sides; wall agglutinated, compact and homogeneous; aperture a series of areal pores aligned vertically up the apertural face and reflected in thin section by the multiple passages through the septa. U. Cretaceous (Santonian); France. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
