Foraminifera taxon details
Discocyclinidae Galloway, 1928 †
- Genus Asterophragmina Rao, 1942 †
- Genus Athecocyclina Vaughan & Cole, 1940 †
- Genus Discocyclina Gümbel, 1870 †
- Genus Nemkovella Less, 1987 †
- Genus Pseudophragmina Douvillé, 1923 †
- Genus Stenocyclina Caudri, 1972 †
- Genus Actinocyclina Gümbel, 1870 † accepted as Discocyclina Gümbel, 1870 † (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, Subjective junior synonym Opinion of Less (1987))
- Genus Asteriacites Schlotheim, 1822 † accepted as Actinocyclina Gümbel, 1870 † accepted as Discocyclina Gümbel, 1870 † (Subjective senior synonym Opinion of Loeblich and Tappan (1987) [non Asteriacites Schlotheim, 1820, Echinodermata])
- Genus Asterodiscocyclina Berry, 1928 † accepted as Asterocyclina Gümbel, 1870 † (Subjective junior synonym in opinion of Loeblich and Tappan (1987))
- Genus Exagonocyclina Checchia-Rispoli, 1907 † accepted as Orbitoclypeus Silvestri, 1907 † (Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987)
- Genus Orthophragmina Munier-Chalmas, 1891 † accepted as Discocyclina Gümbel, 1870 †
- Genus Pileocyclina Portnaya, 1983 † accepted as Orbitoclypeus Silvestri, 1907 † (Subjective junior synonym in opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Galloway, J. J. (1928). A revision of the family Orbitoididae. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 2: 45-69.
page(s): p. 55; note: Discocyclinae (subfamily) [details] Available for editors
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page(s): p. 55; note: Discocyclinae (subfamily) [details] Available for editors
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Discocyclinidae Galloway, 1928 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=526472 on 2024-04-23
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Galloway, J. J. (1928). A revision of the family Orbitoididae. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 2: 45-69.
page(s): p. 55; note: Discocyclinae (subfamily) [details] Available for editors [request]
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 [request]
page(s): p. 55; note: Discocyclinae (subfamily) [details] Available for editors
[request] 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 Megalospheric generation with subspherical initial chamber embraced by larger second chamber, microspheric generation with initial coil of small chambers, later stage with planispiral equatorial layer of rapidly enlarging and finally annular chambers, secondarily subdivided into chamberlets and connected with adjacent chambers and chamberlets by annular and radial stolons, hence six stolons per chamber, lateral chambers present on each side of equatorial layer; intraseptal and intramural canal system present. M. Paleocene to U. Eocene. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]