Foraminifera taxon details

Spiroclypeus Douvillé, 1905 †

721538  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:721538)

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Genus
Spiroclypeus orbitoideus Douvillé, 1905 † (type by original designation)

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Douvillé, H. (1905). Les Foraminifères dans le Tertiaire de Bornéo. <em>Bulletin de la Société géologique de France.</em> (4)5(4): 435-464., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31027682
page(s): p. 458 [details]   
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Spiroclypeus Douvillé, 1905 †. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=721538 on 2024-04-23
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2013-03-08 13:53:47Z
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original description Douvillé, H. (1905). Les Foraminifères dans le Tertiaire de Bornéo. <em>Bulletin de la Société géologique de France.</em> (4)5(4): 435-464., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31027682
page(s): p. 458 [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  PDF available [request] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
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Diagnosis Test lenticular to discoidal, planispirally coiled and involute, with rapidly enlarging whorls of numerous strongly curved chambers that increase rapidly in height but very slowly in width, earliest one or two coiled chambers may be undivided but later ones have numerous complete secondary septa as in Heterostegina, lateral chamberlets formed by backward folding of the entire proximal primary lateral wall and alar prolongations, details of canal system not known, Y-shaped supplementary stolons occur in the median plane and where the fold of the septal flap touches the inner apertural wall, lateral pillars perpendicular to the surface; wall calcareous, finely perforate, spiral wall thick, surface may be pustulose in the umbonal region. U. Eocene to L. Miocene; Europe; Africa; West Indies; Borneo; Saipan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]