Foraminifera taxon details

Edomia Henson, 1948 †

722027  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:722027)

accepted
Genus
Edomia reicheli Henson, 1948 † (type by original designation)

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Henson, F. R. S. (1948). Larger imperforate foraminifera of south-western Asia. Families Lituolidae, Orbitolinidae and Meandropsinidae. <em>British Museum (Natural History).</em> 1-127.
page(s): p. 84 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Edomia Henson, 1948 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=722027 on 2024-03-28
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original description Henson, F. R. S. (1948). Larger imperforate foraminifera of south-western Asia. Families Lituolidae, Orbitolinidae and Meandropsinidae. <em>British Museum (Natural History).</em> 1-127.
page(s): p. 84 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

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  PDF available [request] 
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Diagnosis Test large, discoidal, somewhat inflated in the central region, megalospheric test with large spherical proloculus, microspheric test at first cornuspirine, planispiral, and involute, later becoming evolute, with numerous low and very strongly arched chambers per whorl, finally with cyclic chambers of nearly constant thickness, incomplete transverse interseptal septula project inward from the two faces of the test, aligned in successive chambers, central region of the later chambers with irregularly distributed interseptal pillars; aperture of large pores at the center of the septal face, alternating in position with the interseptal pillars. U. Cretaceous (Cenomanian to Turonian); Iran; Israel. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]