Foraminifera taxon details
Aragonia Finlay, 1939 †
721482 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:721482)
accepted
Genus
Aragonia zelandica Finlay, 1939 † (type by original designation)
- Species Aragonia anauna Cita, 1960 †
- Species Aragonia aragonensis (Nuttall, 1930) †
- Species Aragonia daniensis Wicher, 1956 †
- Species Aragonia janoscheki Gohrbandt, 1962 †
- Species Aragonia materna Beckmann & Koch, 1964 †
- Species Aragonia ouezzanensis (Rey, 1955) †
- Species Aragonia praearagonensis Morozova, 1967 †
- Species Aragonia semireticulata (LeRoy, 1953) †
- Species Aragonia tenera Finlay, 1947 †
- Species Aragonia velascoensis (Cushman, 1925) †
- Species Aragonia zelandica Finlay, 1939 †
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Finlay, H. J. (1939). New Zealand Foraminifera: Key Species in Stratigraphy - No. 3. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand.</em> 69: 309-329., available online at http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_69/rsnz_69_03_003140.html
page(s): p. 318 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): p. 318 [details] Available for editors

Diagnosis Test rhomboidal in outline, compressed to fusiform in section, biserial throughout, chambers increasing rapidly in breadth...
Diagnosis Test rhomboidal in outline, compressed to fusiform in section, biserial throughout, chambers increasing rapidly in breadth as added, sutures oblique, thickened, and elevated; wall calcareous, optically granular, apparently lacking pores, surface ornamented by limbate and elevated sutures and marginal keel and may have diagonally placed longitudinal costae; aperture a small opening at the base of the apertural face, no toothplate. L. Paleocene (Danian) to M. Eocene (Lutetian); North America; Caribbean; Italy; Morocco; New Zealand. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2021). World Foraminifera Database. Aragonia Finlay, 1939 †. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=721482 on 2025-05-04
Date
action
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original description
Finlay, H. J. (1939). New Zealand Foraminifera: Key Species in Stratigraphy - No. 3. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand.</em> 69: 309-329., available online at http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_69/rsnz_69_03_003140.html
page(s): p. 318 [details] Available for editors
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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. 318 [details] Available for editors

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





From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test rhomboidal in outline, compressed to fusiform in section, biserial throughout, chambers increasing rapidly in breadth as added, sutures oblique, thickened, and elevated; wall calcareous, optically granular, apparently lacking pores, surface ornamented by limbate and elevated sutures and marginal keel and may have diagonally placed longitudinal costae; aperture a small opening at the base of the apertural face, no toothplate. L. Paleocene (Danian) to M. Eocene (Lutetian); North America; Caribbean; Italy; Morocco; New Zealand. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]