Foraminifera taxon details
Altistoma de Klasz & Rérat, 1962 †
721465 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:721465)
accepted
Genus
Altistoma scalaris de Klasz & Rérat, 1962 † (type by original designation)
- Species Altistoma aegyptiaca Abdou & Abdel Kireem, 1975 †
- Species Altistoma compressa Abdou & Abdel Kireem, 1975 †
- Species Altistoma eocaenica Abdou & Abdel Kireem, 1975 †
- Species Altistoma fayoumensis Abdou & Abdel Kireem, 1975 †
- Species Altistoma megaapertura Abdou & Abdel Kireem, 1975 †
- Species Altistoma rayana Abdou & Abdel Kireem, 1975 †
- Species Altistoma scalaris de Klasz & Rérat, 1962 †
- Species Altistoma tenuis de Klasz & Rérat, 1962 †
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
neuter
Klasz, I. de; Rérat, D. (1962). Quelques nouveaux foraminifères du Crétacé et du Tertiaire du Gabon (Afrique Équatoriale). <em>Revue de Micropaléontologie.</em> 4: 175-189.
page(s): p. 180 [details]
page(s): p. 180 [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Altistoma de Klasz & Rérat, 1962 †. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=721465 on 2024-04-24
Date
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original description
Klasz, I. de; Rérat, D. (1962). Quelques nouveaux foraminifères du Crétacé et du Tertiaire du Gabon (Afrique Équatoriale). <em>Revue de Micropaléontologie.</em> 4: 175-189.
page(s): p. 180 [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 [request]
page(s): p. 180 [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 [request]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test elongate, rapidly widening, ovoid in section, chambers biserially arranged, or possibly with a very short triserial early stage, strongly overlapping so that the final pair occupies over half the test length, sharp angle at proximal margin of chambers results in a distinct shoulder that may have a faintly lobulate lower margin, sutures straight, somewhat oblique, depressed; wall calcareous, finely perforate, surface smooth; aperture a high symmetrical arch in a depression in the final chamber face, toothplate not known. M. Eocene to L. Miocene; Egypt; Gabon. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]