Foraminifera taxon details
Alpillina Foury, 1968 †
739374 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:739374)
accepted
Genus
Alpillina antiqua Foury, 1968 † (type by original designation)
- Species Alpillina antiqua Foury, 1968 †
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Foury, G. (1968). Le Crétacé inférieur des Alpilles. Contribution à l'étude stratigraphique et micropaléontologique. <em>Geobios.</em> 1(1): 119-163., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/s0016-6995(68)80005-1 [details] Available for editors 
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Diagnosis Test conical, with flattened to concave base, megalospheric generation with embryonic apparatus consisting of thin-walled...
Diagnosis Test conical, with flattened to concave base, megalospheric generation with embryonic apparatus consisting of thin-walled protoconch and deuteroconch surrounded by an annular supraembryonal zone subdivided into about five chamberlets, spherical microspheric protoconch is followed by a few streptospirally coiled chambers at the test apex, later chambers uniserial and rectilinear, with very narrow marginal zone of vertical exoskeletal primary and secondary beams and horizontal rafters, beams narrow at the chamber floor and wider above, giving a triangular appearance in tangential section, poorly developed in the radial zone but joining to form a wide axial reticular zone in the central part of the test. 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. Alpillina Foury, 1968 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=739374 on 2025-12-22
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Foury, G. (1968). Le Crétacé inférieur des Alpilles. Contribution à l'étude stratigraphique et micropaléontologique. <em>Geobios.</em> 1(1): 119-163., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/s0016-6995(68)80005-1 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Diagnosis Test conical, with flattened to concave base, megalospheric generation with embryonic apparatus consisting of thin-walled protoconch and deuteroconch surrounded by an annular supraembryonal zone subdivided into about five chamberlets, spherical microspheric protoconch is followed by a few streptospirally coiled chambers at the test apex, later chambers uniserial and rectilinear, with very narrow marginal zone of vertical exoskeletal primary and secondary beams and horizontal rafters, beams narrow at the chamber floor and wider above, giving a triangular appearance in tangential section, poorly developed in the radial zone but joining to form a wide axial reticular zone in the central part of the test. L. Cretaceous (Barremian); France. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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