Foraminifera taxon details
Gigasbia Strank, 1983 †
721335 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:721335)
accepted
Genus
Gigasbia gigas Strank, 1983 † (type by original designation)
- Species Gigasbia gigas Strank, 1983 †
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Strank, A. R. E. (1983). New stratigraphically significant foraminifera from the Dinantian of Great Britain. <em>Palaeontology.</em> 26(2): 435-442., available online at http://go.palass.org/485
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Diagnosis Test free, elongate, large, up to 2.0 mm in length, spherical proloculus up to 0.67 mm in diameter, followed by a straight...
Diagnosis Test free, elongate, large, up to 2.0 mm in length, spherical proloculus up to 0.67 mm in diameter, followed by a straight tubular undivided chamber with inner cavity about one-half the diameter of the spherical chamber cavity; wall thick, calcareous, microgranular, more finely granular in the outer part of the wall; aperture not described. L. Carboniferous (Dinantian); England; USSR. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Gigasbia Strank, 1983 †. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/Foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=721335 on 2026-03-27
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original description
Strank, A. R. E. (1983). New stratigraphically significant foraminifera from the Dinantian of Great Britain. <em>Palaeontology.</em> 26(2): 435-442., available online at http://go.palass.org/485
page(s): p. 435 [details] Available for editors [request]
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 [request]
page(s): p. 435 [details] Available for editors
[request]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 free, elongate, large, up to 2.0 mm in length, spherical proloculus up to 0.67 mm in diameter, followed by a straight tubular undivided chamber with inner cavity about one-half the diameter of the spherical chamber cavity; wall thick, calcareous, microgranular, more finely granular in the outer part of the wall; aperture not described. L. Carboniferous (Dinantian); England; USSR. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
From editor or global species database
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