Foraminifera taxon details
Melathrokerion Brönnimann & Conrad, 1967 †
738934 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:738934)
accepted
Genus
Melathrokerion valserinensis Brönnimann & Conrad, 1967 † accepted as Melathrokerion valserinense Brönnimann & Conrad, 1967 † (type by original designation)
- Species Melathrokerion eospirialis Gorbachik, 1985 †
- Species Melathrokerion lenticulare Korchagin, 1989 †
- Species Melathrokerion ovatum Samyschkina, 1983 †
- Species Melathrokerion praesigali (Banner, 1966) †
- Species Melathrokerion ufrense Alekseeva, 1972 †
- Species Melathrokerion valserinense Brönnimann & Conrad, 1967 †
- Species Melathrokerion lenticularis Korchagin, 1989 † accepted as Melathrokerion lenticulare Korchagin, 1989 † (unaccepted > incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet)
- Species Melathrokerion ovatus Samyschkina, 1983 † accepted as Melathrokerion ovatum Samyschkina, 1983 † (unaccepted > incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet)
- Species Melathrokerion spirialis Gorbachik, 1968 † accepted as Charentia evoluta (Gorbachik, 1968) † (Subjective junior synonym Opinion of Neagu (2000) juvenile)
- Species Melathrokerion ufrensis Alekseeva, 1972 † accepted as Melathrokerion ufrense Alekseeva, 1972 † (unaccepted > incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet)
- Species Melathrokerion valserinensis Brönnimann & Conrad, 1967 † accepted as Melathrokerion valserinense Brönnimann & Conrad, 1967 † (unaccepted > incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet, Genus is neuter)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
neuter
Brönnimann, P.; Conrad, M. (1967). Cinquième note sur les Foraminifères du Crétacé inférieur de la région genevoise. Melathrokerion valserinensis, n. gen., sp., un foraminifère nouveau du Barrémien à faciès urgonien dans le Jura français. <em>Compte Rendu des Séances de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève, Nouvelle Série.</em> 1(3)[1966]: 129-151., available online at https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:148722
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Melathrokerion Brönnimann & Conrad, 1967 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=738934 on 2024-04-19
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Brönnimann, P.; Conrad, M. (1967). Cinquième note sur les Foraminifères du Crétacé inférieur de la région genevoise. Melathrokerion valserinensis, n. gen., sp., un foraminifère nouveau du Barrémien à faciès urgonien dans le Jura français. <em>Compte Rendu des Séances de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève, Nouvelle Série.</em> 1(3)[1966]: 129-151., available online at https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:148722
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test free, nautiloid, coiling planispiral and involute, with a slight tendency to be streptospiral in the early stage, few chambers per whorl, sutures radial, slightly arched, periphery broadly rounded; wall microgranular, agglutinated, solid, and simple in the early stage, later becoming pseudoalveolar with very narrow cylindrical canaliculi piercing the wall but not becoming true alveoles, hence in section appearing radially striate, pseudoalveolar structure not present in early stage or in the apertural face; aperture a crescentic areal slit across the apertural face above its base. L. Cretaceous (U. Barremian to Bedoulian); Switzerland; France; Spain; USSR: Crimea. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]Grammatical gender 30.1.2. a genus-group name that is or ends in a Greek word transliterated into Latin without other changes takes the gender given for that word in standard Greek dictionaries;
Kerion "honeycomb" is neuter in Greek. [details]