Foraminifera taxon details
Amphicervicis Mound, 1961 †
737352 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:737352)
accepted
Genus
Amphicervicis elliptica Mound, 1961 † (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Mound, M. C. (1961). Arenaceous foraminifera from the Brassfield Limestone (Albion) of southeastern Indiana. <em>Indiana Geological Survey Bulletin.</em> 23: 1-38., available online at https://hdl.handle.net/2022/27480, https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/items/f7167b88-3e5b-49da-b1b0-3c1b6b24bfb7
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Diagnosis Test attached, elliptical to circular in outline, consisting of three rapidly enlarging chambers that are completely...
Diagnosis Test attached, elliptical to circular in outline, consisting of three rapidly enlarging chambers that are completely enveloped dorsally by the final depressed hemispherical chamber, base flattened to concave; wall agglutinated, of well-cemented fine-to medium-sized grains, surface smooth; two apertures, at opposite ends of the test, somewhat produced. L. Silurian; USA: Indiana. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Amphicervicis Mound, 1961 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=737352 on 2025-12-16
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original description
Mound, M. C. (1961). Arenaceous foraminifera from the Brassfield Limestone (Albion) of southeastern Indiana. <em>Indiana Geological Survey Bulletin.</em> 23: 1-38., available online at https://hdl.handle.net/2022/27480, https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/items/f7167b88-3e5b-49da-b1b0-3c1b6b24bfb7
page(s): p. 29 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): p. 29 [details] Available for editors
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Diagnosis Test attached, elliptical to circular in outline, consisting of three rapidly enlarging chambers that are completely enveloped dorsally by the final depressed hemispherical chamber, base flattened to concave; wall agglutinated, of well-cemented fine-to medium-sized grains, surface smooth; two apertures, at opposite ends of the test, somewhat produced. L. Silurian; USA: Indiana. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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