Foraminifera taxon details
Astrolepidina Loeblich & Tappan, 1987 †
722311 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:722311)
accepted
Genus
Lepidocyclina asterodisca Nuttall, 1932 † accepted as Astrolepidina asterodisca (Nuttall, 1932) † (type by original designation)
Lepidocyclina (Astrolepidina) A.Silvestri, 1931 † · unaccepted (Name not available ICZN Art. 13(b))
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
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
page(s): p. 613 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): p. 613 [details] Available for editors
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Astrolepidina Loeblich & Tappan, 1987 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=722311 on 2024-04-24
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original description
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
page(s): p. 613 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): p. 613 [details] Available for editors
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Diagnosis Test flattened, up to 5 mm in diameter and 1 mm in thickness, stellate in outline, with four broad elevated arms, bilocular embryo of approximately equal sized chambers separated by a straight wall, followed by much smaller equatorial chambers, ogival in outline in the early stage, later ones hexagonal, chambers in the rays four or more times the size of the interray chambers, equatorial layer increasing in thickness toward the periphery, lateral chambers of length twice their height; surface with numerous large and elevated pustules reflecting internal pillars, adjacent papillae joined by narrow ridges, about five ridges from each of the papillae. L. to U. Oligocene; Mexico. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]