Foraminifera name details
Cuneus Voloshina, 1974 †
721453 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:721453)
accepted > unreplaced junior homonym (Junior homonym of Cuneus Da Costa, 1778 (Mollusca))
Genus
Tritaxia minuta Marsson, 1878 † accepted as Bulimina minuta (Marsson, 1878) † accepted as Cuneus minutus (Marsson, 1878) † (type by original designation)
- Species Cuneus minutus (Marsson, 1878) †
- Species Cuneus trigonulus (Chapman, 1904) †
- Species Cuneus trigona (Chapman, 1892) † accepted as Cuneus trigonulus (Chapman, 1904) † (Overlooked nomen novum)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Voloshina, A. M. (1974), Обзор родов верхнемеловых булиминацей (фораминиферы) на материале Волыно-Подолии - Obzor rodov verkhnemelovykh buliminatsey (Foraminifery) na materiale Volyno-Podolii - Review of the genera of the Upper Cretaceous Buliminacea (Foraminifera), based on the material of Volhyno-Podolia. <em>Палеонтологический сборник - Paleontologicheskiy Sbornik.</em> 10(2): 17-22.
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Diagnosis Test pyramidal in form, triserial throughout but II]ay be slightly twisted, triangular in section, sides flat to slightly...
Diagnosis Test pyramidal in form, triserial throughout but II]ay be slightly twisted, triangular in section, sides flat to slightly excavated, sutures oblique, flush; wall calcareous, transparent, finely perforate, surface smooth; aperture a narrow loop extending up the apertural face from the base of the final chamber. U. Cretaceous (Coniacian) to Paleocene; cosmopolitan in boreal regions. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Cuneus Voloshina, 1974 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=721453 on 2026-08-08
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Voloshina, A. M. (1974), Обзор родов верхнемеловых булиминацей (фораминиферы) на материале Волыно-Подолии - Obzor rodov verkhnemelovykh buliminatsey (Foraminifery) na materiale Volyno-Podolii - Review of the genera of the Upper Cretaceous Buliminacea (Foraminifera), based on the material of Volhyno-Podolia. <em>Палеонтологический сборник - Paleontologicheskiy Sbornik.</em> 10(2): 17-22.
page(s): p. 18 [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. 18 [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 pyramidal in form, triserial throughout but II]ay be slightly twisted, triangular in section, sides flat to slightly excavated, sutures oblique, flush; wall calcareous, transparent, finely perforate, surface smooth; aperture a narrow loop extending up the apertural face from the base of the final chamber. U. Cretaceous (Coniacian) to Paleocene; cosmopolitan in boreal regions. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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