Foraminifera taxon details
Resigia Schnitker & Tjalsma, 1980
520955 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:520955)
accepted
Genus
Resigia westcotti Schnitker & Tjalsma, 1980 † (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
feminine
Schnitker, D.; Tjalsma, L. R. C. (1980). New genera and species of benthic foraminifers from Paleocene and Eocene deep-water deposits. <em>The Journal of Foraminiferal Research.</em> 10(3): 235-241., available online at https://doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.10.3.235
page(s): p. 240 [details]
page(s): p. 240 [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Resigia Schnitker & Tjalsma, 1980. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=520955 on 2024-04-25
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Schnitker, D.; Tjalsma, L. R. C. (1980). New genera and species of benthic foraminifers from Paleocene and Eocene deep-water deposits. <em>The Journal of Foraminiferal Research.</em> 10(3): 235-241., available online at https://doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.10.3.235
page(s): p. 240 [details]
additional source Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1987). Foraminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. 970pp., available online at https://books.google.pt/books?id=n_BqCQAAQBAJ [details] Available for editors
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page(s): p. 240 [details]
additional source Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1987). Foraminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. 970pp., available online at https://books.google.pt/books?id=n_BqCQAAQBAJ [details] Available for editors
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Diagnosis Test tiny, about 0.2 mm in diameter, asymmetrically planispiral and bi-involute, subtriangular to subquadrate in outline, about two to three and a half whorls, three to four chambers in the final whorl, sutures radial, straight on one side, curved on the opposite side, slightly depressed, periphery rounded; wall calcareous, optically granular, finely perforate, surface smooth; aperture an interiomarginal equatorial arch, extending a short distance onto both sides of the test, the inflated apertural face projecting over the aperture. M. Eocene (Lutetian) to U. Eocene (Priabonian); deep water of the Northeast Atlantic; E. Pacific. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]