Foraminifera taxon details

Hechtina Bartenstein & Brand, 1949 †

721958  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:721958)

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  1. Species Hechtina antiqua (Reuss, 1863) †
  2. Species Hechtina praeantiqua Bartenstein & Brand, 1949 †
  3. Species Hechtina vagiformis Bulynnikova, 1986 †
  4. Subgenus Hechtina (Listerella) Hofker, 1957 accepted as Martinottiella Cushman, 1933 (Subjective junior synonym Opinion of Loeblich and Tappan (1987) nomen translatum)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Bartenstein, H.; Brand, E. (1949). New genera of foraminifera from the Lower Cretaceous of Germany and England. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 23: 669-672.
page(s): p. 669 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
Nomenclature Hechtina Bartenstein & Brand, 1949 is the type genus of the subfamily Hechtininae Mikhalevich, 2006.  
Nomenclature Hechtina Bartenstein & Brand, 1949 is the type genus of the subfamily Hechtininae Mikhalevich, 2006. [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Hechtina Bartenstein & Brand, 1949 †. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=721958 on 2024-04-23
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original description Bartenstein, H.; Brand, E. (1949). New genera of foraminifera from the Lower Cretaceous of Germany and England. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 23: 669-672.
page(s): p. 669 [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 free or attached to other foraminifers, up to about 0.9 mm in diameter, subglobular to somewhat flattened, proloculus followed by irregularly enrolled early stage, later chambers more regularly and streptospirally coiled, and finally planispiral, about three to six chambers per whorl, attached specimens tending to uncoil in the later stage; wall calcareous, imperforate, porcelaneous; aperture areal, circular to elliptical in the face of the final chamber and approximately in the plane of coiling. L. Cretaceous (Valanginian to Aptian); Germany; England; Romania. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]

Nomenclature Hechtina Bartenstein & Brand, 1949 is the type genus of the subfamily Hechtininae Mikhalevich, 2006. [details]