Foraminifera taxon details

Orbitokathina Hottinger, 1966 †

722396  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:722396)

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Genus
Orbitokathina vonderschmitti Hottinger, 1966 † (type by original designation)

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Hottinger, L. (1966), Foraminifères rotaliformes et Orbitoïdes du Sénonien Inférieur Pyrénéen, Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 59:277-301. , available online at https://doi.org/10.5169/seals-163371
page(s): p. 290 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Orbitokathina Hottinger, 1966 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=722396 on 2024-03-28
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original description Hottinger, L. (1966), Foraminifères rotaliformes et Orbitoïdes du Sénonien Inférieur Pyrénéen, Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 59:277-301. , available online at https://doi.org/10.5169/seals-163371
page(s): p. 290 [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] 

additional source Boix, C.; Villalonga, R.; Caus, E.; Hottinger, L. (2009). Late Cretaceous rotaliids (Foraminiferida) from the Western Tethys. <em>Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen.</em> 253(2): 197-227., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233570490_Late_Cretaceous_rotaliids_Foraminiferida_from_the_Western_Tethys [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
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Diagnosis Test of megalospheric generation lenticular and biconvex, up to 2 mm in diameter, trochospirally coiled, approximately twenty chambers in the final whorl, microspheric test with three to four trochospiral whorls followed by arcuate to spatulate chambers with diagonal stolons, added in concentric series in an orbitoidal manner, test becoming convexoconcave and up to 7 mm in diameter, septa doubled, thin, and fragile, intraseptal spaces closed or may open only as normal pores on the spiral surface but widen rapidly toward the umbilical side to open into the vertical stolons, periphery rounded to subangular; wall calcareous, perforate, lamellar, surface of spiral side smooth, pillars on umbilical side resulting in pustulose or vermiform surface, with vertical canals between the pillars; narrow interiomarginal intercameral foramen and arcuate chambers with diagonal stolons. U. Cretaceous (Coniacian); Spain. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]