Foraminifera taxon details
Quasicyclammina Belford, 1977 †
738643 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:738643)
accepted
Genus
Quasicyclammina breviseptum Belford, 1977 † (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Belford, D. J. (1977). Quasicyclammina gen. nov. and Thalmannammina (Foraminiferida) from the Paleocene of Papua New Guinea. <em>BMR Journal of Australian Geology & Geophysics.</em> 2: 35-42., available online at https://data.gov.au/dataset/fc807dae-4853-46b9-a7a2-409304ef4d6f
page(s): p. 36-37 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): p. 36-37 [details] Available for editors [request]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Quasicyclammina Belford, 1977 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=738643 on 2024-03-29
Date
action
by
original description
Belford, D. J. (1977). Quasicyclammina gen. nov. and Thalmannammina (Foraminiferida) from the Paleocene of Papua New Guinea. <em>BMR Journal of Australian Geology & Geophysics.</em> 2: 35-42., available online at https://data.gov.au/dataset/fc807dae-4853-46b9-a7a2-409304ef4d6f
page(s): p. 36-37 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): p. 36-37 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test nautiloid in form, planispirally enrolled and involute, may be slightly asymmetrical, with only about two whorls of few chambers each, sutures nearly radial, periphery broadly rounded; wall agglutinated, with imperforate outer layer of the outer wall underlain by a coarse alveolar subepidermal layer that does not continue to the septa; aperture an asymmetrical interiomarginal slit. U. Paleocene; New Guinea. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]