Foraminifera taxon details
Paleogaudryina Said & Barakat, 1958 †
738121 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:738121)
accepted
Genus
Paleogaudryina magharaensis Said & Barakat, 1958 † (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Said, R.; Barakat, M. G. (1958). Jurassic microfossils from Gebel Maghara, Sinai, Egypt. <em>Micropaleontology.</em> 4(3): 231-272., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/1484285
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Diagnosis Test free, small, flaring, chambers inflated, increasing rapidly in size as added, early stage triserial and subtriangular...
Diagnosis Test free, small, flaring, chambers inflated, increasing rapidly in size as added, early stage triserial and subtriangular in section, later somewhat twisted biserial, slightly flattened and ovoid in section, sutures constricted; wall finely agglutinated, surface smoothly finished; aperture an elongate to arcuate areal slit, beginning just above the base of the final chamber. M. Jurassic (Callovian) to U. Jurassic (Kimmeridgian); Egypt: N. Sinai. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Paleogaudryina Said & Barakat, 1958 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=738121 on 2026-02-15
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original description
Said, R.; Barakat, M. G. (1958). Jurassic microfossils from Gebel Maghara, Sinai, Egypt. <em>Micropaleontology.</em> 4(3): 231-272., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/1484285
page(s): p. 243 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): p. 243 [details] Available for editors
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Diagnosis Test free, small, flaring, chambers inflated, increasing rapidly in size as added, early stage triserial and subtriangular in section, later somewhat twisted biserial, slightly flattened and ovoid in section, sutures constricted; wall finely agglutinated, surface smoothly finished; aperture an elongate to arcuate areal slit, beginning just above the base of the final chamber. M. Jurassic (Callovian) to U. Jurassic (Kimmeridgian); Egypt: N. Sinai. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
From editor or global species database
Image from typetaxon