Foraminifera taxon details
Elphidium funderi Feyling-Hanssen, 1990 †
1322999 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1322999)
accepted
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Feyling-Hanssen, R. W. (1990). Foraminiferal stratigraphy in the Plio-Pleistocene Kap København Formation, North Greenland. <em>Meddelelser om Grønland, Geoscience.</em> 24: 1-32., available online at https://tidsskrift.dk/meddrgroenland_geosci/article/view/142019
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Description Test lenticular, biconvex with an acute, sometimes carinate periphery so that the surface area between the periphery and...
Etymology Named after Svend Funder, Copenhagen, who first described the Kap København Formation of North Greenland
Description Test lenticular, biconvex with an acute, sometimes carinate periphery so that the surface area between the periphery and the central part appears concave, involutely coiled with a broad, sometimes indistinct umbilical boss, 10--11 chambers in the final whorl, the two last chambers slightly lobulate. Sutures curved moderately backwards with usually three broad sutural bridges between the three or four last chambers, earlier sutures without bridges, and almost flush with the surface. Wall calcareous perforate, brownish hyaline to milky white, radial when viewed in polarized light, surface smooth: aperture at the base of the apertural face, a row of openings hardly discernable because of calcareous vesicular material at the base of the apertural face. Greatest diameter of holotype 0.38 mm, thickness 0.17 mm. Greatest diameters of paratypes varied from 0.40 mm to 0.51 mm, thicknesses from 0.17 mm to 0.28 mm. [details]
Etymology Named after Svend Funder, Copenhagen, who first described the Kap København Formation of North Greenland
Etymology Named after Svend Funder, Copenhagen, who first described the Kap København Formation of North Greenland [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Elphidium funderi Feyling-Hanssen, 1990 †. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1322999 on 2026-09-12
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Feyling-Hanssen, R. W. (1990). Foraminiferal stratigraphy in the Plio-Pleistocene Kap København Formation, North Greenland. <em>Meddelelser om Grønland, Geoscience.</em> 24: 1-32., available online at https://tidsskrift.dk/meddrgroenland_geosci/article/view/142019
page(s): p. 28: pl. 6, figs. 3-8 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): p. 28: pl. 6, figs. 3-8 [details] Available for editors
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Description Test lenticular, biconvex with an acute, sometimes carinate periphery so that the surface area between the periphery and the central part appears concave, involutely coiled with a broad, sometimes indistinct umbilical boss, 10--11 chambers in the final whorl, the two last chambers slightly lobulate. Sutures curved moderately backwards with usually three broad sutural bridges between the three or four last chambers, earlier sutures without bridges, and almost flush with the surface. Wall calcareous perforate, brownish hyaline to milky white, radial when viewed in polarized light, surface smooth: aperture at the base of the apertural face, a row of openings hardly discernable because of calcareous vesicular material at the base of the apertural face. Greatest diameter of holotype 0.38 mm, thickness 0.17 mm. Greatest diameters of paratypes varied from 0.40 mm to 0.51 mm, thicknesses from 0.17 mm to 0.28 mm. [details]Etymology Named after Svend Funder, Copenhagen, who first described the Kap København Formation of North Greenland [details]
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