Foraminifera taxon details
Polylepidina Vaughan, 1924 †
722305 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:722305)
accepted
Genus
Lepidocyclina (Polylepidina) chiapasensis Vaughan, 1924 † accepted as Polylepidina chiapasensis (Vaughan, 1924) † (type by original designation)
Lepidocyclina (Polylepidina) Vaughan, 1924 † · unaccepted (Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan,...)
Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987 Nomen translatum
Orbitoina (Polyorbitoina) van de Geyn & van der Vlerk, 1935 † · unaccepted (Nomen nudum Subjective junior...)
Nomen nudum Subjective junior synonym Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987
Pliolepidina (Polyorbitoina) Schenck & Frizzell, 1936 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (Subjective junior synonym Opinion...)
Subjective junior synonym Opinion of Loeblich and Tappan (1987)
- Species Polylepidina chiapasensis (Vaughan, 1924) †
- Species Polylepidina discoidalis Barker & Grimsdale, 1936 †
- Species Polylepidina proteiformis (Vaughan, 1924) †
- Species Polylepidina antillea (Cushman, 1919) † accepted as Eolepidina antillea (Cushman, 1919) † (unaccepted > superseded combination, Opinion of Mitchell et al. (2022))
- Species Polylepidina cardenasensis Galloway, 1928 † accepted as Orbitocyclina minima (Douvillé, 1927) † accepted as Lepidorbitoides minima Douvillé, 1927 † (Subjective junior synonym Opinion of Vaughan (1929))
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
(of Lepidocyclina (Polylepidina) Vaughan, 1924 †) Vaughan, T. W. (1924). American and European Tertiary Larger Foraminifera. <em>Geological Society of America Bulletin.</em> 35(4): 785-822., available online at https://doi.org/10.1130/gsab-35-785
page(s): p. 794, 807 [details]
page(s): p. 794, 807 [details]
Diagnosis Embryo consists of protoconch and deuteroconch surrounded by a thickened wall, may have one or more early postembryonic...
Diagnosis Embryo consists of protoconch and deuteroconch surrounded by a thickened wall, may have one or more early postembryonic chambers with single basal aperture, hence producing a single much reduced spire, later chambers then have a second retrovert aperture or the earliest postembryonic chambers may immediately have two apertures, all biapertural chambers then producing two new chambers and eventually a cyclic growth stage, arcuate equatorial chambers with only radial stolons, lateral chambers present. Upper M. Eocene; Mexico; West Indies. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Polylepidina Vaughan, 1924 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=722305 on 2026-01-20
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(of Lepidocyclina (Polylepidina) Vaughan, 1924 †) Vaughan, T. W. (1924). American and European Tertiary Larger Foraminifera. <em>Geological Society of America Bulletin.</em> 35(4): 785-822., available online at https://doi.org/10.1130/gsab-35-785
page(s): p. 794, 807 [details]
original description (of Orbitoina (Polyorbitoina) van de Geyn & van der Vlerk, 1935 †) Van de Geyn, W. A. E.; Van der Vlerk; I. M. (1935). A monograph on the Orbitoididae, occurring in the Tertiary of America, compiled in connection with an examination of a collection of larger foraminifera from Trinidad. <em>Leidsche geologische Mededeelingen.</em> 7 (2): 221-272., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/505742
page(s): p. 227 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Pliolepidina (Polyorbitoina) Schenck & Frizzell, 1936 †) Schenck, H. G.; Frizzell, D. L. (1936). Subgeneric nomenclature in Foraminifera. <em>American Journal of Science.</em> s5-31(186): 464-466., available online at https://doi.org/10.2475/ajs.s5-31.186.464 [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]
status source Mitchell, S. F.; Robinson, E.; Özcan, E.; Jiang, M. M.; Robinson, N. (2022). A larger benthic foraminiferal zonation for the Eocene of the Caribbean and central American region. <em>Carnets de géologie (Notebooks on geology).</em> 22(11): 409-566., available online at http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/22/11/CG2211.pdf [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): p. 794, 807 [details]
original description (of Orbitoina (Polyorbitoina) van de Geyn & van der Vlerk, 1935 †) Van de Geyn, W. A. E.; Van der Vlerk; I. M. (1935). A monograph on the Orbitoididae, occurring in the Tertiary of America, compiled in connection with an examination of a collection of larger foraminifera from Trinidad. <em>Leidsche geologische Mededeelingen.</em> 7 (2): 221-272., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/505742
page(s): p. 227 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Pliolepidina (Polyorbitoina) Schenck & Frizzell, 1936 †) Schenck, H. G.; Frizzell, D. L. (1936). Subgeneric nomenclature in Foraminifera. <em>American Journal of Science.</em> s5-31(186): 464-466., available online at https://doi.org/10.2475/ajs.s5-31.186.464 [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]status source Mitchell, S. F.; Robinson, E.; Özcan, E.; Jiang, M. M.; Robinson, N. (2022). A larger benthic foraminiferal zonation for the Eocene of the Caribbean and central American region. <em>Carnets de géologie (Notebooks on geology).</em> 22(11): 409-566., available online at http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/22/11/CG2211.pdf [details] Available for editors
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Diagnosis Embryo consists of protoconch and deuteroconch surrounded by a thickened wall, may have one or more early postembryonic chambers with single basal aperture, hence producing a single much reduced spire, later chambers then have a second retrovert aperture or the earliest postembryonic chambers may immediately have two apertures, all biapertural chambers then producing two new chambers and eventually a cyclic growth stage, arcuate equatorial chambers with only radial stolons, lateral chambers present. Upper M. Eocene; Mexico; West Indies. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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