Foraminifera taxon details
Clavulinopsis Banner & Desai, 1985 †
739465 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:739465)
accepted
Genus
Clavulinopsis hofkeri Banner & Desai, 1985 † (type by original designation)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Banner, F. T.; Desai, D. (1985). The genus Clavulinoides Cushman emended and the new Cretaceous genus Clavulinopsis. <em>The Journal of Foraminiferal Research.</em> 15(2): 79-90., available online at https://doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.15.2.79
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Diagnosis Test free, triangular in section, early stage triserial, later abruptly becoming uniserial, chambers simple, sutures...
Diagnosis Test free, triangular in section, early stage triserial, later abruptly becoming uniserial, chambers simple, sutures slightly depressed, horizontal to slightly arched at the center of the flattened sides; wall agglutinated, with considerable calcareous groundmass, lateral walls canaliculate, with canaliculi opening into the chamber lumen but sealed externally by a finely agglutinated outer layer, septa solid and noncanaliculate; aperture cribrate, with irregular pores at the end of a slightly produced neck. U. Cretaceous (Campanian to Maastrichtian); USA: Texas, Arkansas. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Clavulinopsis Banner & Desai, 1985 †. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/Foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=739465 on 2026-08-17
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original description
Banner, F. T.; Desai, D. (1985). The genus Clavulinoides Cushman emended and the new Cretaceous genus Clavulinopsis. <em>The Journal of Foraminiferal Research.</em> 15(2): 79-90., available online at https://doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.15.2.79
page(s): p. 82 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): p. 82 [details] Available for editors
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Diagnosis Test free, triangular in section, early stage triserial, later abruptly becoming uniserial, chambers simple, sutures slightly depressed, horizontal to slightly arched at the center of the flattened sides; wall agglutinated, with considerable calcareous groundmass, lateral walls canaliculate, with canaliculi opening into the chamber lumen but sealed externally by a finely agglutinated outer layer, septa solid and noncanaliculate; aperture cribrate, with irregular pores at the end of a slightly produced neck. U. Cretaceous (Campanian to Maastrichtian); USA: Texas, Arkansas. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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