Foraminifera taxon details
Miogypsinita Drooger, 1952 †
721532 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:721532)
accepted
Genus
Miogypsina mexicana Nuttall, 1933 † accepted as Miogypsina (Miogypsinita) mexicana Nuttall, 1933 † accepted as Miogypsinita mexicana (Nuttall, 1933) † (type by original designation)
Miogypsina (Miogypsinita) Drooger, 1952 † · unaccepted (Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
(of Miogypsina (Miogypsinita) Drooger, 1952 †) Drooger, C. W. (1952). Study of American Miogypsinidae. <em>Utrecht Thesis/dissertation.</em> 1-80.
page(s): pp. 57, 61 [details]
page(s): pp. 57, 61 [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Miogypsinita Drooger, 1952 †. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=721532 on 2024-04-24
Date
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original description
(of Miogypsina (Miogypsinita) Drooger, 1952 †) Drooger, C. W. (1952). Study of American Miogypsinidae. <em>Utrecht Thesis/dissertation.</em> 1-80.
page(s): pp. 57, 61 [details]
basis of record Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1987). Foraminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. 970pp., available online at https://books.google.pt/books?id=n_BqCQAAQBAJ [details] Available for editors
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page(s): pp. 57, 61 [details]
basis of record Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1987). Foraminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. 970pp., available online at https://books.google.pt/books?id=n_BqCQAAQBAJ [details] Available for editors
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Diagnosis Test circular to oval in outline, biconvex, thickest at the center, up to 5 mm in diameter, megalospheric embryo and nepionic stage situated about midway between the center of the test and the periphery, but these are peripheral in the microspheric test, embryo consists of two inequal chambers with straight dividing septum and two inequal principal auxiliary chambers, bispiral, spire from the smaller auxiliary chamber relatively short and may be covered by the larger spire, later equatorial chambers diamond shaped, lateral chambers present in five or six superposed layers; wall calcareous, finely perforate, surface tuberculate. U. Oligocene to L. Miocene (Burdigalian); Mexico; Trinidad; USA: Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]