Foraminifera taxon details
Sulcoperculina Thalmann, 1939 †
722368 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:722368)
accepted
Genus
Camerina dickersoni Palmer, 1934 † accepted as Sulcoperculina dickersoni (Palmer, 1934) † (type by original designation)
Operculina (Sulcoperculina) Thalmann, 1939 † · unaccepted (Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan,...)
Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987 Nomen translatum
- Species Sulcoperculina angulata Brown & Brönnimann, 1957 †
- Species Sulcoperculina cosdeni (Applin & Jordan, 1945) †
- Species Sulcoperculina cubensis (Palmer, 1934) †
- Species Sulcoperculina diazi Seiglie & Ayala-Castañares, 1963 †
- Species Sulcoperculina dickersoni (Palmer, 1934) †
- Species Sulcoperculina globosa Cizancourt, 1949 †
- Species Sulcoperculina inaequalis Ho, 1976 †
- Species Sulcoperculina kugleri Hottinger, 1977 †
- Species Sulcoperculina minima Seiglie & Ayala-Castañares, 1963 †
- Species Sulcoperculina vermunti (Thiadens, 1937) †
- Species Sulcoperculina obesa Cizancourt, 1949 † accepted as Sulcoperculina globosa Cizancourt, 1949 † (Subjective junior synonym Opinion of Renz (1955), Brown and Brönnimann (1957))
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Not documented
Diagnosis Test lenticular to slightly flattened, about 2 mm in diameter, low trochoid coil of three to four whorls, up to...
Diagnosis Test lenticular to slightly flattened, about 2 mm in diameter, low trochoid coil of three to four whorls, up to twenty-three chambers in the final whorl, bi-involute, canal system with intraseptal radial and spiral canals, imperforate peripheral margin deeply grooved and with a single canal at its base somewhat ventral to the periphery of the preceding whorl, the canal bending and giving rise to a radial canal at each septum, closely set vertical plates border the sulcus on each side; wall calcareous, lateral walls thickly lamellar, external surface with central knob and other inflational pustules. U. Cretaceous (Campanian to Maastrichtian); Cuba; Haiti; Jamaica; Venezuela; Mexico; Greece. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Sulcoperculina Thalmann, 1939 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=722368 on 2025-05-13
Date
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original description
(of Operculina (Sulcoperculina) Thalmann, 1939 †) Thalmann, H. E. (1939). Mitteilungen über Foraminiferen IV. <em>Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae.</em> (1938) 31: 327-333., available online at https://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=egh-001%3A1938%3A31%3A%3A258#346
page(s): p. 330 [details]
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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page(s): p. 330 [details]
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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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test lenticular to slightly flattened, about 2 mm in diameter, low trochoid coil of three to four whorls, up to twenty-three chambers in the final whorl, bi-involute, canal system with intraseptal radial and spiral canals, imperforate peripheral margin deeply grooved and with a single canal at its base somewhat ventral to the periphery of the preceding whorl, the canal bending and giving rise to a radial canal at each septum, closely set vertical plates border the sulcus on each side; wall calcareous, lateral walls thickly lamellar, external surface with central knob and other inflational pustules. U. Cretaceous (Campanian to Maastrichtian); Cuba; Haiti; Jamaica; Venezuela; Mexico; Greece. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
