Foraminifera taxon details
Wellmanella Finlay, 1947 †
721992 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:721992)
accepted
Genus
Wellmanella kaiata Finlay, 1947 † (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Finlay, H. J. (1947). New Zealand Foraminifera: Key Species in Stratigraphy - No. 5. <em>New Zealand journal of science and technology.</em> B28: 259-292.
page(s): p. 270 [details]
page(s): p. 270 [details]
Diagnosis Test about 1 mm in length, ovate in outline, early stage triloculine or possibly quinqueloculine, with chambers one-half...
Diagnosis Test about 1 mm in length, ovate in outline, early stage triloculine or possibly quinqueloculine, with chambers one-half coil in length, later nearly planispiral and with three to four chambers per whorl; wall calcareous, imperforate, porcelaneous, may have fine surface striae; aperture a narrow slit at the open end of the final chamber, bordered at each side by two thin flanges, without a tooth. U. Eocene; New Zealand. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2021). World Foraminifera Database. Wellmanella Finlay, 1947 †. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=721992 on 2025-11-09
Date
action
by
original description
Finlay, H. J. (1947). New Zealand Foraminifera: Key Species in Stratigraphy - No. 5. <em>New Zealand journal of science and technology.</em> B28: 259-292.
page(s): p. 270 [details]
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. 270 [details]
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]From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test about 1 mm in length, ovate in outline, early stage triloculine or possibly quinqueloculine, with chambers one-half coil in length, later nearly planispiral and with three to four chambers per whorl; wall calcareous, imperforate, porcelaneous, may have fine surface striae; aperture a narrow slit at the open end of the final chamber, bordered at each side by two thin flanges, without a tooth. U. Eocene; New Zealand. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
From editor or global species database
Image from typetaxon