Foraminifera taxon details
Rotamorphina Finlay, 1939 †
722237 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:722237)
accepted
Genus
Rotamorphina cushmani Finlay, 1939 † (type by original designation)
- Species Rotamorphina cushmani Finlay, 1939 †
- Species Rotamorphina involuta Parker, 1958
- Species Rotamorphina glabra (Cushman, 1927) accepted as Valvulineria glabra Cushman, 1927
- Species Rotamorphina minuta (Schubert, 1904) accepted as Valvulineria minuta (Schubert, 1904)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Finlay, H. J. (1939). New Zealand Foraminifera: Key Species in Stratigraphy - No. 3. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand.</em> 69: 309-329., available online at http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_69/rsnz_69_03_003140.html
page(s): p. 325 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): p. 325 [details] Available for editors
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Rotamorphina Finlay, 1939 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=722237 on 2024-04-24
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original description
Finlay, H. J. (1939). New Zealand Foraminifera: Key Species in Stratigraphy - No. 3. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand.</em> 69: 309-329., available online at http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_69/rsnz_69_03_003140.html
page(s): p. 325 [details] Available for editors [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 [request]
page(s): p. 325 [details] Available for editors
[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
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test biconvex, trochospiral, chambers enlarging rapidly as added, six to seven per whorl, sutures flush and oblique on the spiral side, depressed and radial on the umbilical side, periphery rounded; wall calcareous, thin, surface smooth; aperture a low extraumbilical-umbilical arch on the umbilical side, covered by an umbilical flap from the final chamber. U. Cretaceous (Campanian); cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]