Foraminifera taxon details

Meandropsina Munier-Chalmas in Schlumberger, 1898 †

721273  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:721273)

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Genus
Meandropsina vidali Schlumberger, 1898 † (type by subsequent designation)
Cyclomeandropsina Henson, 1950 † · unaccepted (Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan,...)  
Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987 name not available, not described

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Schlumberger, C. (1898). Note sur le genre Meandropsina Mun.-Chalm., n. g. <em>Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, sér. 3.</em> 26: 336-339., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35979052
page(s): p. 336 [details]   
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Meandropsina Munier-Chalmas in Schlumberger, 1898 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=721273 on 2024-04-19
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original description Schlumberger, C. (1898). Note sur le genre Meandropsina Mun.-Chalm., n. g. <em>Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, sér. 3.</em> 26: 336-339., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35979052
page(s): p. 336 [details]   

original description  (of Cyclomeandropsina Henson, 1950 †) Henson, F. R. S., 1950, Middle Eastern Tertiary Peneroplidae (Foraminifera), with remarks on the phylogeny and taxonomy of the family: Ph.D. Thesis,West Yorkshire Printing Co., limited publication, Leiden, Wakefield England, v. 19, 70 p.  [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

basis of record 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  PDF available [request] 
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Diagnosis Test large, discoidal, up to about 17 mm in diameter and 0.5 mm in thickness, early stage planispirally enrolled with rapidly enlarging spire, chambers of almost constant height although rapidly increasing in breadth to become peneropline and finally cyclic, interior subdivided by numerous incomplete vertical septula, aligned in successive chambers, lateral part of chambers becoming very irregular and forming meandriform ridges on the test surface; wall calcareous, imperforate; aperture multiple, of numerous rows of pores on the periphery. U. Cretaceous (Senonian}; Spain; Iran. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]