Foraminifera taxon details
Verispira Palmieri, 1988 †
890570 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:890570)
accepted
Genus
- Species Verispira contorta (Gümbel, 1878) †
- Species Verispira holmesorum Tremblin & Haig, 2023 †
- Species Verispira jelli Palmieri, 1988 †
- Species Verispira bristolensis (Reichel, 1946) † accepted as Parabiseriella bristolensis (Reichel, 1946) † (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Verispira kantharensis (Reichel, 1946) † accepted as Globivalvulina kantharensis Reichel, 1946 † (unaccepted > superseded combination, Opinion of Pinard and Mamet (1998))
- Species Verispira shikhanensis (Morozova, 1949) † accepted as Globivalvulina shikhanensis Morozova, 1949 † (unaccepted > superseded combination, Opinion of Vachard et al. (2006) [group of G. ex gr. parva])
- Species Verispira spiralis (Morozova, 1949) † accepted as Lateenoglobivalvulina spiralis (Morozova, 1949) † (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Verispira vulgaris (Morozova, 1949) † accepted as Globivalvulina vulgaris Morozova, 1949 † (unaccepted > superseded combination, Opinion of Vachard et al. (2006) [group of G. ex gr. bulloides])
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Palmieri, V. (1988). Globivalvulinid Foraminifera from the Permian of Queensland. <em>Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology.</em> 12(1): 27-47., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518808618994
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Original description Diagnosis. Test free or attached, small to medium in size, oblong to rounded or hemispherical; chambers 10 to 12,...
Original description Diagnosis. Test free or attached, small to medium in size, oblong to rounded or hemispherical; chambers 10 to 12, subglobular to narrowly rounded, trochospirally arranged, often irregularly, in 2 to 3 whorls, greatly increasing in size and strongly overlapping; last chamber may expand disproportionately in attached forms; spiral side convex to roughly hemispherical, usually showing all or most of the chambers and spiral suture; umbilical side flattened or slightly concave, showing last chamber encroaching upon a few preceding ones; coiling may be dextral or sinistral; aperture a slit at base of last chamber in umbilical position, may be covered by a projection of the last septal face; test wall composed of an inner lining and an external, thicker microgranular layer; wall finely perforated, particularly in sutural positions.
Range and distribution. Carboniferous of Avon Gorge (England); Late Permian of the Dolomites region (northern Italy); Early Permian of Cyprus, Greece and USSR.
(Palmieri (1988)). [details]
Range and distribution. Carboniferous of Avon Gorge (England); Late Permian of the Dolomites region (northern Italy); Early Permian of Cyprus, Greece and USSR.
(Palmieri (1988)). [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Verispira Palmieri, 1988 †. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=890570 on 2026-08-28
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Palmieri, V. (1988). Globivalvulinid Foraminifera from the Permian of Queensland. <em>Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology.</em> 12(1): 27-47., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518808618994
page(s): p. 38 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): p. 38 [details] Available for editors
[request]From editor or global species database
Original description Diagnosis. Test free or attached, small to medium in size, oblong to rounded or hemispherical; chambers 10 to 12, subglobular to narrowly rounded, trochospirally arranged, often irregularly, in 2 to 3 whorls, greatly increasing in size and strongly overlapping; last chamber may expand disproportionately in attached forms; spiral side convex to roughly hemispherical, usually showing all or most of the chambers and spiral suture; umbilical side flattened or slightly concave, showing last chamber encroaching upon a few preceding ones; coiling may be dextral or sinistral; aperture a slit at base of last chamber in umbilical position, may be covered by a projection of the last septal face; test wall composed of an inner lining and an external, thicker microgranular layer; wall finely perforated, particularly in sutural positions. Range and distribution. Carboniferous of Avon Gorge (England); Late Permian of the Dolomites region (northern Italy); Early Permian of Cyprus, Greece and USSR.
(Palmieri (1988)). [details]
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