Foraminifera taxon details
Kassabiana Salaj & Solakius, 1984 †
722182 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:722182)
accepted
Genus
Globotruncana falsocalcarata Kerdany & Abdelsalam, 1969 † accepted as Kassabiana falsocalcarata (Kerdany & Abdelsalam, 1969) † (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Salaj, J.; Solakius, N. (1984). The genus Kassabiana Salaj, 1983, from the uppermost Maastrichtian of northeastern Tunisia. <em>Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.</em> 21(10): 1199-1204., available online at https://doi.org/10.1139/e84-125
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Kassabiana Salaj & Solakius, 1984 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=722182 on 2024-04-19
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Salaj, J.; Solakius, N. (1984). The genus Kassabiana Salaj, 1983, from the uppermost Maastrichtian of northeastern Tunisia. <em>Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.</em> 21(10): 1199-1204., available online at https://doi.org/10.1139/e84-125
page(s): p. 1201 [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]
original description (unavailable nomenclaturally) Salaj, J. (1983). Quelques problèmes taxonomiques concernant les foraminiſères planctoniques et la zonation du Sénonien supérieur d'El Kef. <em>Geologica Carpathica.</em> 34(2): 187-212., available online at http://www.geologicacarpathica.com/browse-journal/archive-1950-1996/
page(s): p. 210; note: Type species Globotruncana falsocalcarata but no description of the new genus. [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): p. 1201 [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] original description (unavailable nomenclaturally) Salaj, J. (1983). Quelques problèmes taxonomiques concernant les foraminiſères planctoniques et la zonation du Sénonien supérieur d'El Kef. <em>Geologica Carpathica.</em> 34(2): 187-212., available online at http://www.geologicacarpathica.com/browse-journal/archive-1950-1996/
page(s): p. 210; note: Type species Globotruncana falsocalcarata but no description of the new genus. [details] Available for editors
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Diagnosis Test trochospiral, planoconvex, spiral side flat to slightly convex, umbilical side convex, early chambers small and globular, then with triangular outline and peripheral spines, later chambers rectangular to crescentic, of rhomboidal section and slightly excavated on the spiral side, sutures straight, oblique, and elevated on the spiral side, slightly curved and raised around the wide and deep umbilicus on the umbilical side, periphery with a single keel; wall calcareous, perforate, :::xcept for the imperforate keel, surface smooth but with peripheral spines and surface pustules on the early chambers, of decreasing importance in later chambers; primary aperture interiomarginal and umbilical, with apertural flaps or portici extending into the umbilicus and having semiarcuate accessory apertures. U. Cretaceous (U. Maastrichtian); Egypt; Iraq; Tunisia; Pakistan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]