Foraminifera taxon details
Dicyclinidae Loeblich & Tappan, 1964 †
- Genus Dicyclina Munier-Chalmas, 1887 †
- Genus Nakkadyia Ismail, Hussein-Kamel, Boukhary & Ghandour, 2009 † (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, Opinion of Schlagintweit (2023) - see note)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1964). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part C: Protista 2, Sarcodina, chiefly "Thecamoebians" and Foraminiferida. <em>Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, Lawrence.</em> [details] Available for editors
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Diagnosis Test free, discoidal, chambers cyclical, biserially added, partly subdivided by transverse or radial partitions or both to...
Diagnosis Test free, discoidal, chambers cyclical, biserially added, partly subdivided by transverse or radial partitions or both to form numerous small chamberlets; wall of finely agglutinated calcareous particles, with imperforate epidermal layer; aperture multiple, peripheral. L. Cretaceous (Albian) to U. Cretaceous (Santonian). (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Dicyclinidae Loeblich & Tappan, 1964 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=738967 on 2025-05-22
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Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1964). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part C: Protista 2, Sarcodina, chiefly "Thecamoebians" and Foraminiferida. <em>Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, Lawrence.</em> [details] Available for editors
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Diagnosis Test free, discoidal, chambers cyclical, biserially added, partly subdivided by transverse or radial partitions or both to form numerous small chamberlets; wall of finely agglutinated calcareous particles, with imperforate epidermal layer; aperture multiple, peripheral. L. Cretaceous (Albian) to U. Cretaceous (Santonian). (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]