Foraminifera taxon details
Postendothyra Lin, 1984 †
721394 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:721394)
accepted
Genus
Postendothyra scabra Lin, 1984 † (type by original designation)
- Species Postendothyra amina Lin, 1984 †
- Species Postendothyra micula (Sosnina in Sosnina & Nikitina, 1977) †
- Species Postendothyra prepta Lin, 1984 †
- Species Postendothyra scabra Lin, 1984 †
- Species Postendothyra sinensis Lin, Li & Sun, 1990 †
- Species Postendothyra strena Lin, 1984 †
- Species Postendothyra tenuis Lin, Li & Sun, 1990 †
- Species Postendothyra guangxiensis (Lin, 1978) † accepted as Postendothyra micula (Sosnina in Sosnina & Nikitina, 1977) †
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Lin, J. X. (1984). Protozoa. In Yichan Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources (ed.), Biostratigraphy of the Yangtze Gorge area chiefly, (3) Late Paleozoic era. <em>Museum Changzhou, Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, Geological Publishing House, Beijing.</em> 110–177 (In Chinese), 323–364 (In English).
page(s): p. 136 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): p. 136 [details] Available for editors
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Diagnosis Test free, subspherical, planispirally enrolled and involute, biumbilicate, only two to three chambers per whorl, small...
Fossil range Occurrence: Midian-Changhsingian. South China (Hubei; Lin, 1984), Italy (Vachard and Miconnet, 1990), Greece (Vachard et...
Diagnosis Test free, subspherical, planispirally enrolled and involute, biumbilicate, only two to three chambers per whorl, small chamberlets present along the sutures, periphery rounded; wall calcareous, with outer tectum and inner coarsely alveolar keriotheca; primary aperture a low interiomarginal equatorial slit, supplementary sutural slits open into the septal chamberlets. Upper part L. Permian; China: Xintan, Hubei Province. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Fossil range Occurrence: Midian-Changhsingian. South China (Hubei; Lin, 1984), Italy (Vachard and Miconnet, 1990), Greece (Vachard et...
Fossil range Occurrence: Midian-Changhsingian. South China (Hubei; Lin, 1984), Italy (Vachard and Miconnet, 1990), Greece (Vachard et al., 1993b), Slovenia (Flügel et al., 1984), Crimea (Pronina and Nestell, 1997), Cyprus (Nestell and Pronina, 1997), Turkey (Zaninetti et al., 1981), Afghanistan (Vachard, unpublished data), Primorye (Sosnina and Nikitina, 1977), Malaysia (Fontaine et al., 1994), NW Thailand (Fontaine et al., 1993), East Thailand (Fontaine et al., 1997), Cambodia (Nguyen Duc Tien, 1986b), Transcaucasia (Pronina, 1988), Japan (Kobayashi, 1986 ; 1997c), Oman (Vachard et al., 2002), and Himalaya (Lys et al., 1980).
(Gaillot et al. (2009)). [details]
(Gaillot et al. (2009)). [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Postendothyra Lin, 1984 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=721394 on 2026-09-06
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Lin, J. X. (1984). Protozoa. In Yichan Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources (ed.), Biostratigraphy of the Yangtze Gorge area chiefly, (3) Late Paleozoic era. <em>Museum Changzhou, Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, Geological Publishing House, Beijing.</em> 110–177 (In Chinese), 323–364 (In English).
page(s): p. 136 [details] Available for editors [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 [request]
page(s): p. 136 [details] Available for editors
[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
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Diagnosis Test free, subspherical, planispirally enrolled and involute, biumbilicate, only two to three chambers per whorl, small chamberlets present along the sutures, periphery rounded; wall calcareous, with outer tectum and inner coarsely alveolar keriotheca; primary aperture a low interiomarginal equatorial slit, supplementary sutural slits open into the septal chamberlets. Upper part L. Permian; China: Xintan, Hubei Province. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]Fossil range Occurrence: Midian-Changhsingian. South China (Hubei; Lin, 1984), Italy (Vachard and Miconnet, 1990), Greece (Vachard et al., 1993b), Slovenia (Flügel et al., 1984), Crimea (Pronina and Nestell, 1997), Cyprus (Nestell and Pronina, 1997), Turkey (Zaninetti et al., 1981), Afghanistan (Vachard, unpublished data), Primorye (Sosnina and Nikitina, 1977), Malaysia (Fontaine et al., 1994), NW Thailand (Fontaine et al., 1993), East Thailand (Fontaine et al., 1997), Cambodia (Nguyen Duc Tien, 1986b), Transcaucasia (Pronina, 1988), Japan (Kobayashi, 1986 ; 1997c), Oman (Vachard et al., 2002), and Himalaya (Lys et al., 1980).
(Gaillot et al. (2009)). [details]
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