Foraminifera taxon details
Loftusia Brady, 1869 †
738675 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:738675)
accepted
Genus
Loftusia persica Brady, 1869 † (type by original designation)
- Species Loftusia anatolica Meriç, 1965 †
- Species Loftusia arabica El-Asa'ad, 1989 †
- Species Loftusia baykali Meriç, 1965 †
- Species Loftusia coxi Henson, 1948 †
- Species Loftusia elongata Cox, 1937 †
- Species Loftusia farsensis Mehrnusch, 1985 †
- Species Loftusia harrisoni Cox, 1937 †
- Species Loftusia kahtaensis Meriç, 1967 †
- Species Loftusia ketini Meriç, 1979 †
- Species Loftusia matsumarui Meriç & Görmüş, 2001 †
- Species Loftusia minor Cox, 1937 †
- Species Loftusia morgani Douvillé, 1904 †
- Species Loftusia occidentalis Milovanovich, 1938 †
- Species Loftusia oktayi Meriç, 1967 †
- Species Loftusia persica Brady, 1869 †
- Species Loftusia turcica Meriç & Avsar, 1992 †
- Species Loftusia bemmeleni Silvestri, 1932 † accepted as Paracyclammina bemmeleni (Silvestri, 1932) † (Type species of Paracyclammina)
- Species Loftusia columbiana Dawson, 1879 † accepted as Neoschwagerina columbiana (Dawson) em. Dunbar, 1932 † accepted as Yabeina columbiana (Dawson, 1879) †
- Species Loftusia lamellifera (Silvestri, 1925) † accepted as Paracyclammina lamellifera (Silvestri, 1925) † (Opinion of Yabe (1946) [Yabe suggests that Paracyclammina lamellifera might be the microspheric generation of Paracyclammina bemmeleni])
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Carpenter, W. B.; Brady, H. B. (1869). Description of Parkeria and Loftusia, Two Gigantic Types of Arenaceous Foraminifera. <em>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.</em> 159: 721-754 + pls., available online at https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1869.0031
page(s): p. 751 [details]
page(s): p. 751 [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Loftusia Brady, 1869 †. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=738675 on 2024-04-24
Date
action
by
original description
Carpenter, W. B.; Brady, H. B. (1869). Description of Parkeria and Loftusia, Two Gigantic Types of Arenaceous Foraminifera. <em>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.</em> 159: 721-754 + pls., available online at https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1869.0031
page(s): p. 751 [details]
page(s): p. 751 [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test large, fusiform, ovoid or globular, planispirally enrolled with increasingly elongate axis of coiling, the earliest whorls in the microspheric form resembling Cholfatella in equatorial section, strongly overlapping chambers gradually increasing in height as added, septa oblique in transverse section; wall with exoskeleton consisting of imperforate calcareous epidermis and subepidermal network of beams and rafters, septa and endoskeletal pillars distinctly agglutinated, pillars extend from chamber to chamber between the apertural pores and most numerous near the outer margins of the chambers, leaving a more open chamber lumen in the median region of the test, secondary transverse partitions may connect the pillars; aperture multiple, numerous small rounded pores set in transverse rows in the apertural face or primary septa. U. Cretaceous (Maastrichtian); Iran; Turkey; Sumatra. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]