Foraminifera taxon details
Urgonina Foury & Moullade, 1966 †
739368 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:739368)
accepted
Genus
Urgonina protuberans Foury & Moullade, 1966 † (type by original designation)
Urgonina (Urgonina) Foury & Moullade, 1966 in Cuvillier et al. 1968 † · alternative representation
- Species Urgonina alpillensis (Foury, 1963) †
- Species Urgonina protuberans Foury & Moullade, 1966 †
- Subgenus Urgonina (Parurgonina) Cuvillier, Foury & Pignatti Morano, 1968 † accepted as Parurgonina Cuvillier, Foury & Pignatti Morano, 1968 † (Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987)
- Species Urgonina (Parurgonina) caelinensis Cuvillier, Foury & Pignatti Morano, 1968 † accepted as Parurgonina caelinensis (Cuvillier, Foury & Pignatti Morano, 1968) † (Type species of Parurgonina)
- Subgenus Urgonina (Urgonina) Foury & Moullade, 1966 in Cuvillier et al. 1968 † represented as Urgonina Foury & Moullade, 1966 †
- Species Urgonina (Urgonina) forojuliensis Cuvillier, Foury & Pignatti Morano, 1968 † accepted as Labyrinthina mirabilis Weynschenk, 1951 † (Subjective junior synonym Opinion of Schlagintweit et al. (2005))
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Foury, G.; Moullade, M. (1966). Orbitolinidae nouveaux du Barrémien (Faciès Urgonien) des Alpilles (Bouches-du-Rhône). <em>Revue de Micropaléontologie.</em> 8: 249-257.
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Diagnosis High conical test with twisted apex consisting of an early trochospiral coil of more than one whorl of rapidly enlarging...
Diagnosis High conical test with twisted apex consisting of an early trochospiral coil of more than one whorl of rapidly enlarging chambers, proloculus positioned laterally on the test, later chambers rectilinear and discoidal, outer part of chambers lacking any vertical or horizontal exoskeletal partitions or apertural pores, inner region of the chambers with sparse interseptal pillars connecting adjacent septa; wall thick, microgranular, imperforate, and may have a thick median layer of transparent calcite; aperture consisting of a few large pores in the irregular basal surface. L. Cretaceous (Barremian); France. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Urgonina Foury & Moullade, 1966 †. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=739368 on 2026-01-08
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Foury, G.; Moullade, M. (1966). Orbitolinidae nouveaux du Barrémien (Faciès Urgonien) des Alpilles (Bouches-du-Rhône). <em>Revue de Micropaléontologie.</em> 8: 249-257.
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original description (of Urgonina (Urgonina) Foury & Moullade, 1966 in Cuvillier et al. 1968 †) Cuvillier, J.; Foury, G.; Pignatti Morano, A. G. (1968). Foraminifères nouveaux du Jurassique supérieur du Val Cellina (Frioul Occidental, Italie). <em>Geologica Romana.</em> 7: 141-156., available online at http://www.dst.uniroma1.it/geologicaromana/Volumi/VOL%207/GR_7_141_155_%20Cuvillier%20et%20al.pdf
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[request]original description (of Urgonina (Urgonina) Foury & Moullade, 1966 in Cuvillier et al. 1968 †) Cuvillier, J.; Foury, G.; Pignatti Morano, A. G. (1968). Foraminifères nouveaux du Jurassique supérieur du Val Cellina (Frioul Occidental, Italie). <em>Geologica Romana.</em> 7: 141-156., available online at http://www.dst.uniroma1.it/geologicaromana/Volumi/VOL%207/GR_7_141_155_%20Cuvillier%20et%20al.pdf
page(s): p. 148 [details] Available for editors
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Diagnosis High conical test with twisted apex consisting of an early trochospiral coil of more than one whorl of rapidly enlarging chambers, proloculus positioned laterally on the test, later chambers rectilinear and discoidal, outer part of chambers lacking any vertical or horizontal exoskeletal partitions or apertural pores, inner region of the chambers with sparse interseptal pillars connecting adjacent septa; wall thick, microgranular, imperforate, and may have a thick median layer of transparent calcite; aperture consisting of a few large pores in the irregular basal surface. L. Cretaceous (Barremian); France. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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