Foraminifera taxon details
Heterohelicoidea Cushman, 1927 †
478986 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:478986)
accepted
Superfamily
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Cushman, J. A. (1927). An outline of a re-classification of the Foraminifera. <em>Contributions from the Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research.</em> 3(1): 1-105., available online at https://business.cushmanfoundation.org/ap/CloudFile/Download/P7DeWv4L
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Diagnosis Test biserial or triserial, at least in early stage, may be reduced to uniserial but more commonly shows chamber...
Diagnosis Test biserial or triserial, at least in early stage, may be reduced to uniserial but more commonly shows chamber proliferation in the later stage; aperture a low to high arch at the base of the final chamber or terminal in the uniserial stage. L. Cretaceous (Aptian) to Holocene. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Heterohelicoidea Cushman, 1927 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=478986 on 2026-07-11
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Cushman, J. A. (1927). An outline of a re-classification of the Foraminifera. <em>Contributions from the Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research.</em> 3(1): 1-105., available online at https://business.cushmanfoundation.org/ap/CloudFile/Download/P7DeWv4L
page(s): p. 59.; note: Family and subfamily. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source 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. 59.; note: Family and subfamily. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source 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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Diagnosis Test biserial or triserial, at least in early stage, may be reduced to uniserial but more commonly shows chamber proliferation in the later stage; aperture a low to high arch at the base of the final chamber or terminal in the uniserial stage. L. Cretaceous (Aptian) to Holocene. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
