Foraminifera taxon details
Kyphopyxa Cushman, 1929 †
722082 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:722082)
accepted
Genus
Frondicularia christneri Carsey, 1926 † accepted as Kyphopyxa christneri (Carsey, 1926) † (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Cushman, J.A. 1929. Kyphopyxa, a new genus from the Cretaceous of Texas. Contr. Cushman Lab. Foram. Res. 5: 1-4., available online at https://cushmanfoundation.allenpress.com/Portals/_default/files/pubarchive/cclfr/5cclfr1.pdf
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Kyphopyxa Cushman, 1929 †. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=722082 on 2024-04-19
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Cushman, J.A. 1929. Kyphopyxa, a new genus from the Cretaceous of Texas. Contr. Cushman Lab. Foram. Res. 5: 1-4., available online at https://cushmanfoundation.allenpress.com/Portals/_default/files/pubarchive/cclfr/5cclfr1.pdf
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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 [request]
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[request] 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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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test large, up to 3 mm in length, broad, flattened, palmate, biserial in the early stage, later with broad low chevron-shaped and equitant chambers in a rectilinear uniserial series, the chambers extending far down the lateral margins of the test, earliest one or two uniserial chambers may be annular and completely surround the earlier biserial stage; wall calcareous, hyaline, perforate radial, surface smooth between the limbate and elevated sutures and carinate on each margin of the truncate periphery; aperture produced on a short neck, radiate. U. Cretaceous (Coniacian to Campanian); USA: Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Kansas, Nebraska, California; Venezuela. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]