Foraminifera taxon details
Vania Sirel & Gündüz, 1985 †
738673 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:738673)
accepted
Genus
Vania anatolica Sirel & Gündüz, 1985 † (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Sirel, E.; Gündüz, H. (1985). Vania, a new foraminiferal genus from the Thanatian [sic] of the Van region (east Turkey). <em>Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration Institute of Turkey.</em> 101/102[1983–1984]: 20–24.
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Diagnosis Test large, up to 6.5 mm in diameter, discoidal, biconcave, bilaterally symmetrical, periphery moderately rounded, short...
Diagnosis Test large, up to 6.5 mm in diameter, discoidal, biconcave, bilaterally symmetrical, periphery moderately rounded, short planispiral stage of a few undivided in the micr6spheric test, later chambers spreading and successively flabelliform, reniform, and finally annular, interior subdivided by radially arranged beams and intercalated secondary beams, those of successive chambers aligned, with short rafters parallel to the septa forming a subepidermal network; wall finely agglutinated, imperforate; aperture consists of two alternating rows of pores on the periphery. U. Paleocene (Thanetian); Turkey. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Vania Sirel & Gündüz, 1985 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=738673 on 2026-03-25
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original description
Sirel, E.; Gündüz, H. (1985). Vania, a new foraminiferal genus from the Thanatian [sic] of the Van region (east Turkey). <em>Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration Institute of Turkey.</em> 101/102[1983–1984]: 20–24.
page(s): p. 21 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): p. 21 [details] Available for editors
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Diagnosis Test large, up to 6.5 mm in diameter, discoidal, biconcave, bilaterally symmetrical, periphery moderately rounded, short planispiral stage of a few undivided in the micr6spheric test, later chambers spreading and successively flabelliform, reniform, and finally annular, interior subdivided by radially arranged beams and intercalated secondary beams, those of successive chambers aligned, with short rafters parallel to the septa forming a subepidermal network; wall finely agglutinated, imperforate; aperture consists of two alternating rows of pores on the periphery. U. Paleocene (Thanetian); Turkey. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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