Foraminifera taxon details
Spirotecta Belford, 1961 †
722312 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:722312)
accepted
Genus
Spirotecta pellicula Belford, 1961 † (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Belford, D. J. (1961). Spirotecta pellicula, n. gen., n. sp., from the Upper Cretaceous and Giraliarella triloba, n. sp., from the Permian of Western Australia. <em>Contributions from the Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research.</em> 12,(3): 81-83., available online at https://cushmanfoundation.allenpress.com/portals/_default/files/pubarchive/CCFFR/12ccffr3.pdf
page(s): p. 81 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): p. 81 [details] Available for editors
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2021). World Foraminifera Database. Spirotecta Belford, 1961 †. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=722312 on 2024-04-18
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original description
Belford, D. J. (1961). Spirotecta pellicula, n. gen., n. sp., from the Upper Cretaceous and Giraliarella triloba, n. sp., from the Permian of Western Australia. <em>Contributions from the Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research.</em> 12,(3): 81-83., available online at https://cushmanfoundation.allenpress.com/portals/_default/files/pubarchive/CCFFR/12ccffr3.pdf
page(s): p. 81 [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. 81 [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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Diagnosis Test low trochospiral but bi-involute with closed umbilicus on both sides, inequally biconvex, few chambers per whorl, increasing gradually in size, sutures strongly curved on the flatter side, straight, radial and depressed on the more inflated side, periphery subangular but rounded; wall calcareous, optically granular, finely perforate, surface smooth; aperture an interiomarginal equatorial arch that extends nearly to the umbilicus on the convex side, bordered by a narrow lip. U. Cretaceous (Campanian to Maastrichtian); Western Australia; France. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]