Foraminifera taxon details

Coleites Plummer, 1934 †

721523  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:721523)

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marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
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Plummer, H. J. (1934). Epistominoides and Coleites, New Genera of Foraminifera. <em>American Midland Naturalist.</em> 15(5): 601-608., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/2419927
page(s): p. 605 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2021). World Foraminifera Database. Coleites Plummer, 1934 †. Accessed at: http://marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=721523 on 2024-04-23
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original description Plummer, H. J. (1934). Epistominoides and Coleites, New Genera of Foraminifera. <em>American Midland Naturalist.</em> 15(5): 601-608., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/2419927
page(s): p. 605 [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 trochospirally coiled in the early stage, later uncoiling and flattened, sutures gently curved, periphery carinate; wall calcareous, hyaline, optically granular, coarsely perforate, sutures elevated, with cross ridges connecting the sutural ridges and producing a coarsely reticulate surface; aperture in the early stage an irregular oval near the periphery on the umbilical side, becoming elongate and terminal in the adult with a small tooth on the umbilical margin of the opening, a solid columnar toothplate extending from the inner margin of the aperture through the chamber lumen to connect with the preceding foramen. Paleocene (Danian) to M. Eocene (Lutetian); USA: Texas, Alabama, New Jersey, California; Guatemala; Cuba; Haiti; Sweden; Pakistan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]