Foraminifera taxon details

Eggerina Toulmin, 1941 †

739462  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:739462)

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Genus
Eggerina cylindrica Toulmin, 1941 † (type by original designation)

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marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
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Toulmin, L. D. (1941). Eocene smaller Foraminifera from the Salt Mountain limestone of Alabama. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> vol. 15 no. 6: 567-611.
page(s): p. 573 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Eggerina Toulmin, 1941 †. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=739462 on 2024-03-28
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original description Toulmin, L. D. (1941). Eocene smaller Foraminifera from the Salt Mountain limestone of Alabama. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> vol. 15 no. 6: 567-611.
page(s): p. 573 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
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Diagnosis Test trochospirally enrolled, with about three very narrow high chambers per whorl that strongly overlap those of the preceding whorl, sutures depressed, nearly vertical in orientation; wall very finely agglutinated, surface smoothly finished, whether solid or canaliculate unknown; aperture a short slit near the base of the chamber face, entirely surunded by a low narrow lip. U. Paleocene; USA: Alabama. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]