Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Lyell, C. (1848). On the relative Age and Position of the so-called Nummulite Limestone of Alabama. <em>Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society.</em> 4(1-2): 10-17., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37048472 page(s): p. 12 [details]
original description
(of Hymenocyclus Bronn & Roemer, 1853 †) Bronn, H. G., and E. Roemer, 1853, Lethaea Geognostica; vierte Periode; Kreide-Gebirge: Aufl. 3, Bd. 2, Theil 5 (1851-1852). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart. page(s): p. 94 [details]
original description
(of Silvestrina Prever, 1904 †) Prever, P. L. (1904). Osservazioni sulla sottofamiglia delle Orbitoidinae. <em>Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia.</em> 10(4): 111-127., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14869968 page(s): p. 122 [details]
original description
(of Schlumbergeria A. Silvestri, 1910 †) Silvestri, A. (1910). Lepidocicline sannoisiane di Antonimina in Calabria. <em>Memorie della Pontificia Accademia Romana dei Nuovi Lincei.</em> 28: 103-163. page(s): p. 118 [details]
original description
(of Monolepidorbis Astre, 1928 †) Astre, G. (1928). Sur Monolepidorbis, Foraminifère voisin des Lindérines et des Orbitoïdes. <em>Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France.</em> 4: 387-394. page(s): p. 388 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description
(of Gallowayina Ellis, 1932 †) Ellis, B. F. (1932). Gallowayina browni, a new genus and species of orbitoid from Cuba, with notes on the American occurrence of Omphalocyclus macropora. <em>American Museum Novitates.</em> 568: 1-8., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/4067 page(s): p. 1 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description
(of Orbitoides (Orbitella) H. Douvillé, 1915 †) Douvillé, H. (1915). Les Orbitoïdes: développement et phase embryonnaire; leur évolution pendant le Crétacé. <em>Comptes Rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des Sciences.</em> 161 (22): 664-670. page(s): p. 666 [details]
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 [request]
subsequent type designation
Jones T.R., Parker W.K. & Brady H.B. (1866). A monograph of the Foraminifera of the Crag. <em>Palaeontographical Society, London.</em> Part I. pp. vi + 1-72., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36922104 page(s): appendix, p. 3 of unnumbered pages in appendix. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test large, rarely up to 5 cm in diameter, lenticular, symmetrically biconvex to planoconvex, megalospheric test commonly with four-chambered embryo, consisting of a vertically but not horizontally compressed round to oval protoconch, a reniform deuteroconch, and two somewhat embracing embryonic chambers, the four embryonic chambers being surrounded by a thick perforated wall, less commonly may have only a three- or twochambered embryo, emhryonic chambers connected to the surrounding auxiliary chambers by stolons, base of the arcuate median chambers clearly separated from that of others of the same cycle, chambers communicating with those of the previous and following cycles by diagonal stolons, lateral chambers present and of varied form and size, communicating through stolons and wall perforations; wall calcareous, surface smooth or may be nodose where pillars terminate and may have radiating costae. U. Cretaceous (U. Santonian to Maastrichtian); Europe; North America; Caribbean; India. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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