Foraminifera taxon details
Pityusina Rangheard & Colom, 1967 †
739132 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:739132)
accepted
Genus
Pityusina conica Rangheard & Colom, 1967 † (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Rangheard, Y.; Colom, G. (1967). Microfaunas del Cretácico de Ibiza (Baleares). <em>Boletin del Instituto Geológica y Minero de España.</em> 76: 277-306., available online at https://info.igme.es/biblioteca/ficheros/BGM/Boletin%2076_1965.pdf
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Diagnosis Test free, a high conical and apparently trochospiral series of chambers, few per whorl in the early stage, increasing in...
Diagnosis Test free, a high conical and apparently trochospiral series of chambers, few per whorl in the early stage, increasing in number per whorl as added, and final whorl may have seven or more, septa may be thin and delicate and secondarily destroyed, leaving a cavernous interior, apertural surface flattened, periphery lobulate; wall coarsely agglutinated, noncanaliculate; aperture at the base of the final chamber. L. Cretaceous (Hauterivian to Barremian); Spain: Baleares. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Pityusina Rangheard & Colom, 1967 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=739132 on 2025-05-23
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Rangheard, Y.; Colom, G. (1967). Microfaunas del Cretácico de Ibiza (Baleares). <em>Boletin del Instituto Geológica y Minero de España.</em> 76: 277-306., available online at https://info.igme.es/biblioteca/ficheros/BGM/Boletin%2076_1965.pdf
page(s): p. 297; pl. 5, figs. 1-21; pl. 6, figs. 1-10 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): p. 297; pl. 5, figs. 1-21; pl. 6, figs. 1-10 [details] Available for editors
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Diagnosis Test free, a high conical and apparently trochospiral series of chambers, few per whorl in the early stage, increasing in number per whorl as added, and final whorl may have seven or more, septa may be thin and delicate and secondarily destroyed, leaving a cavernous interior, apertural surface flattened, periphery lobulate; wall coarsely agglutinated, noncanaliculate; aperture at the base of the final chamber. L. Cretaceous (Hauterivian to Barremian); Spain: Baleares. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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