Foraminifera taxon details
Velapertina Popescu, 1969 †
721452 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:721452)
accepted
Genus
Velapertina iorgulescui Popescu, 1969 † (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Popescu, G. (1969). Some new Globigerina (Foraminifera) from the upper Tortonian of the Transylvanian Basin and the Subcarpathians. <em>Revue Roumaine de Géologie Géophysique et Géographie.</em> 13: 103-106.
page(s): p. 105 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): p. 105 [details] Available for editors
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Velapertina Popescu, 1969 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=721452 on 2024-04-24
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original description
Popescu, G. (1969). Some new Globigerina (Foraminifera) from the upper Tortonian of the Transylvanian Basin and the Subcarpathians. <em>Revue Roumaine de Géologie Géophysique et Géographie.</em> 13: 103-106.
page(s): p. 105 [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. 105 [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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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test small, up to about 0.4 mm in diameter, subglobular, with few rapidly enlarging globular chambers in a trochospiral coil of two and a half to three whorls, about four chambers in the final whorl, sutures depressed, periphery broadly rounded, peripheral outline lobulate; wall calcareous, perforate, radial in structure, surface pitted; primary aperture interiomarginal and umbilical in position, secondary sutural apertures present on the spiral side, primary aperture in the adult covered by an umbilical bulla that may continue along the sutures and also cover the secondary openings, infralaminal accessory openings on the bulla margin. Miocene (U. Tortonian); Romania; Czechoslovakia. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]