Foraminifera taxon details
Merlingina Hamaoui, 1965 †
738411 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:738411)
accepted
Genus
Merlingina cretacea Hamaoui, 1965 † (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Hamaoui, M. (1965). Biostratigraphy of the Cenomanian Type Hazera Formation. <em>Geol. Surv. Israel Stratigraphic Sections.</em> 2b: 1-27.
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Merlingina Hamaoui, 1965 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=738411 on 2024-09-23
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Hamaoui, M. (1965). Biostratigraphy of the Cenomanian Type Hazera Formation. <em>Geol. Surv. Israel Stratigraphic Sections.</em> 2b: 1-27.
page(s): p. 17 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): p. 17 [details] Available for editors
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Diagnosis Test free, with numerous broad and low chambers almost planispirally enrolled but test asymmetrical, semievolute, and planoconvex in the early stage, later more nearly bilaterally symmetrical, and finally tending to uncoil, chambers rapidly increasing in thickness so that the apertural face becomes broad, subcircular, and flattened, sutures oblique, somewhat sinuous; wall imperforate, calcareous microgranular, probably agglutinated; aperture reportedly round in early stage, U- or V-shaped in the later stage but difficult to observe externally, associated with a toothplate, visible in axial sections, that curves inward with slight undulations from the lateral borders of the apertural face to adhere to the previous septum by means of two or three basal digitations. U. Cretaceous (Cenomanian); Israel; Lebanon. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
