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Decapoalina schaeferae (Zaninetti, Altıner, Dager & Ducret, 1982)
Description Gale, L.; Rettori, R.; Martini, R.; Rožič, B. (2013). Decapoalina n. gen. (Miliolata, Milioliporidae; Late Triassic), a new foraminiferal genus for “Sigmoilina” schaeferae Zaninetti, Altiner, Dager & Ducret, 1982. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana. 52(2): 81-93., available online at http://paleoitalia.org/media/u/archives/02_Gale_et_al_2013_BSPI_522_1.pdfpage(s): p. 85, Fig. 4; Pl. 1, figs 1-6.
1 - Holotype. Equatorial section. Type level e-BT-1054 (see Zaninetti et al., 1982), E of Kepezçukur, Antalya, Taurus Mts, Turkey. Norian/Rhaetian. Repository of the Museum d’Histoire naturelle de Genève (repository number of the holotype and paratypes MHNG 84-11). 2 - Paratype. Off-centered and slightly oblique section. Type level C-BT-1054 (see Zaninetti et al., 1982), E of Kepezçukur, Antalya, Taurus Mts, Turkey. Norian/Rhaetian. Repository of the Museum d’Histoire naturelle de Genève. 3 - Equatorial section of a megalospheric specimen. White arrow points at pseudo-perforations. Black arrows point at the possible flexostyle, preceeding the sigmoidal coiling. Mt. Begunjščica, Slovenia. Sample T69B, thin section 247. Rhaetian. 4 - Slightly off-centered and slightly oblique section. Arrow points at pseudo-perforations, visible in all stages of growth. Mt. Begunjščica, Slovenia. Sample T69B, thin section 247. Rhaetian. 5 - Equatorial section. Note the involute coiling, the deviation from the sigmoidal arrangement and that the keel is present already in the inner whorls (arrows). Specimen reproduced in Fig. 4a. Mt. Begunjščica, Slovenia. Sample T36, thin section 245B. Rhaetian. 6 - Detail of figure 5. White arrow points at the keel, while the black arrow points at pseudo-perforations. PNG file - 1.10 MB - 912 x 1 016 pixels added on 2025-05-0333 viewsForaminifera taxa Decapoalina schaeferae (Zaninetti, Altıner, Dager & Ducret, 1982) †checked Le Coze, François 2025-05-03
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