Foraminifera taxon details
Ammodiscella Ireland, 1956 †
737412 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:737412)
accepted
Genus
Ammodiscella virgilensis Ireland, 1956 † (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Ireland, H. A. (1956). Upper Pennsylvanian Arenaceous Foraminifera from Kansas. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 30(4): 831-864.
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Ammodiscella Ireland, 1956 †. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=737412 on 2024-04-24
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original description
Ireland, H. A. (1956). Upper Pennsylvanian Arenaceous Foraminifera from Kansas. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 30(4): 831-864.
page(s): p. 845 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): p. 845 [details] Available for editors
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Diagnosis Test attached, proloculus followed by planispirally enrolled tubular undivided second chamber, final whorls becoming irregular and overlapping the earlier part of the test, tubular chamber incompletely developed against the attachment that is used as the chamber floor; wall agglutinated, of uniformly fine-grained quartz particles, surface smooth; aperture at the open end of the chamber. U. Pennsylvanian (Virgilian); USA: Kansas. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]