WoRMS taxon details
Rectodictyoconus Schroeder, 1964 †
739386 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:739386)
accepted
Genus
Rectodictyoconus giganteus Schroeder, 1964 † (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
masculine
Schroeder, R., 1964, Orbitoliniden-Biostratigraphie des Urgons nordöstlich von Teruel (Spanien), Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 1964:462-474.
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Rectodictyoconus Schroeder, 1964 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=739386 on 2025-09-11
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Nomenclature
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Diagnosis Test conical, up to 4 mm in height and 5 mm in breadth, never with an early coiled or laterally inclined stage at the apex of the cone but with symmetrical embryonic apparatus consisting of protoconch and overlying deuteroconch, the latter with a marginal zone produced by vertical radial beams, later part of test with numerous relatively high discoidal and rectilinear chambers subdivided into narrow marginal and radial zones and a much wider central reticular zone, marginal zone with a distinct reticular pattern produced by three orders of exoskeletal vertical radial beams and short horizontal rafters at the periphery of each chamber, primary beams much thickened, triangular in cross-section and somewhat undulating in the radial zone, central zone with pillars that may be incomplete and anastomosing. L. Cretaceous (Barremian); Spain. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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