Foraminifera taxon details
Murgella Luperto Sinni, 1965 †
722030 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:722030)
accepted
Genus
Murgella lata Luperto Sinni, 1965 † (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Luperto Sinni, E. (1965). Nuovo genere di foraminifero del Senoniano delle Murge. <em>Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana.</em> 4(02): 263-268., available online at http://paleoitalia.org/media/u/archives/04_2_05.pdf
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Murgella Luperto Sinni, 1965 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=722030 on 2024-09-16
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Luperto Sinni, E. (1965). Nuovo genere di foraminifero del Senoniano delle Murge. <em>Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana.</em> 4(02): 263-268., available online at http://paleoitalia.org/media/u/archives/04_2_05.pdf
page(s): p. 264 [details] Available for editors [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 [request]
page(s): p. 264 [details] Available for editors
[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
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Diagnosis Test large, up to 14.0 mm in length, early stage planispirally coiled, later uncoiling, proloculus of megalospheric generation followed by flexostyle, and then by up to three and a half volutions, increasing from five to eight chambers in the first whorl with up to thirteen in the last coil, septa strongly oblique and chamber interior undivided in the coil, later up to twelve rectilinear and cylindrical to slightly arched chambers subdivided peripherally by numerous thick radially arranged vertical septula, those of successive chambers aligned; microspheric test larger and flattened, a small planispiral coil followed by a flabelliform uncoiled stage of numerous wide and low chambers, vertical septula projecting inward from both flattened sides of the test; wall calcareous, imperforate, porcelaneous; aperture basal and single in the coiled stage, multiple in the uncoiled stage, pores scattered over the apertural face of the megalospheric test and apparently aligned in rows in the microspheric test. U. Cretaceous (Senonian); Italy. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
