Foraminifera taxon details
Praeostaffellina Cózar, Somerville & Burgess, 2008 †
1054857 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1054857)
accepted
Genus
Praeostaffellina macdonaldensis Cózar, Somerville & Burgess, 2008 † (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Cózar, P.; Somerville, I. D.; Burgess, I. (2008). New foraminifers in the Visean/Serpukhovian boundary interval of the Lower Limestone Formation, Midland Valley, Scotland. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 82(05): 906-923., available online at https://doi.org/10.1666/07-103.1
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Original description Diagnosis. Highly skew-coiled and tightly wound whorls, evolute in the outer whorl. Wall microgranular, composed of a faint...
Original description Diagnosis. Highly skew-coiled and tightly wound whorls, evolute in the outer whorl. Wall microgranular, composed of a faint tectum and a less dense lower layer overlain by a secondary floor covering. Low and discontinuous pseudochomata in the final two whorls.
Occurrence. Brigantian to Pendleian in England, Scotland, Ireland, Spain and the Urals.
(Cózar et al. (2008)).
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Occurrence. Brigantian to Pendleian in England, Scotland, Ireland, Spain and the Urals.
(Cózar et al. (2008)).
[details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Praeostaffellina Cózar, Somerville & Burgess, 2008 †. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1054857 on 2026-08-04
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Cózar, P.; Somerville, I. D.; Burgess, I. (2008). New foraminifers in the Visean/Serpukhovian boundary interval of the Lower Limestone Formation, Midland Valley, Scotland. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 82(05): 906-923., available online at https://doi.org/10.1666/07-103.1
page(s): p. 916 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): p. 916 [details] Available for editors
[request]From editor or global species database
Original description Diagnosis. Highly skew-coiled and tightly wound whorls, evolute in the outer whorl. Wall microgranular, composed of a faint tectum and a less dense lower layer overlain by a secondary floor covering. Low and discontinuous pseudochomata in the final two whorls.Occurrence. Brigantian to Pendleian in England, Scotland, Ireland, Spain and the Urals.
(Cózar et al. (2008)).
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