Foraminifera taxon details
Andamookia Ludbrook, 1966 †
739166 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:739166)
accepted
Genus
Andamookia davenportensis Ludbrook, 1966 † (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Ludbrook, N. H., 1966, Cretaceous biostratigraphy of the Great Artesian Basin in South Australia, Bulletin of the Geological Survey of South Australia 40:1-223. , available online at https://sarigbasis.pir.sa.gov.au/WebtopEw/ws/samref/sarig1/image/DDD/BULL040.pdf
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Andamookia Ludbrook, 1966 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=739166 on 2024-07-25
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original description
Ludbrook, N. H., 1966, Cretaceous biostratigraphy of the Great Artesian Basin in South Australia, Bulletin of the Geological Survey of South Australia 40:1-223. , available online at https://sarigbasis.pir.sa.gov.au/WebtopEw/ws/samref/sarig1/image/DDD/BULL040.pdf
page(s): p. 102 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Diagnosis Test large, up to 1.25 mm in diameter, attached by the umbilical side, chambers in a low trochospiral coil, all chambers visible from the convex spiral side, only the final whorl visible on the flattened to concave umbilical side, chambers numerous, three to five per whorl, subglobular in the early stage, then becoming very low and crescentic as seen from the spiral side, appearing broad and wedgelike on the umbilical side, interior divided by numerous radial partitions or beams, with a few transverse rafters between the beams; wall agglutinated, with grains of fine quartz; aperture interiomarginal, near the umbilicus on the umbilical side. L. Cretaceous (L. Aptian); South Australia. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]