Foraminifera name details
Ruatoria Vella, 1961 †
722219 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:722219)
unaccepted (subjective junior synonym in opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1964 and Hayward (pers. comm. 2017) based on current usage in New Zealand.)
Genus
Ruatoria ruatoria Vella, 1961 † accepted as Rectuvigerina ruatoria (Vella, 1961) † (type by original designation)
- Species Ruatoria ruatoria Vella, 1961 † accepted as Rectuvigerina ruatoria (Vella, 1961) †
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Vella, P. (1961). Upper Oligocene and Miocene Uvigerinid Foraminifera from Raukumara Peninsula, New Zealand. <em>Micropaleontology.</em> 7: 467-483., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/1484383 [details] Available for editors [request]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2021). World Foraminifera Database. Ruatoria Vella, 1961 †. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=722219 on 2024-03-28
Date
action
by
original description
Vella, P. (1961). Upper Oligocene and Miocene Uvigerinid Foraminifera from Raukumara Peninsula, New Zealand. <em>Micropaleontology.</em> 7: 467-483., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/1484383 [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]
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 narrow, elongate, small, up to 0.45 mm in length, early stage triserial, later loosely triserial with cuneate chambers and finally somewhat irregularly uniserial, chambers inflated, sutures depressed; wall calcareous, perforate, surface with narrow and widely spaced longitudinal costae that are not continuous over the sutures, the ribs dying out near the midline of the final chamber; aperture rounded, at the end of a short neck that narrows for a distance and then flares terminally to a somewhat irregular lip. L. Miocene (Aquitanian) to M. Miocene (Helvetian); New Zealand. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]