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Foraminifera taxon detailsLoftusia Brady, 1869 †
 738675 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:738675)
accepted
Genus
Loftusia persica Brady, 1869 † (type by original designation)
marine,
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] 
Diagnosis Test large, fusiform, ovoid or globular, planispirally enrolled with increasingly elongate axis of coiling, the earliest...
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]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Loftusia Brady, 1869 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=738675 on 2025-05-24
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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] 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]
From editor or global species database
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