Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Silvestri, A. (1907). Probabile origine d'alcune Orbitoidine. <em>Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia.</em> 13: 79-81., available online at https://archive.org/stream/rivistaitalianad13mila#page/79/ page(s): p. 80 [details]
original description
(of Heterosteginoides Cushman, 1918 †) Cushman, J. A. (1918). The larger fossil Foraminifera of the Panama Canal Zone. <em>Bulletin - United States National Museum.</em> 103: 89-102., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32168416 page(s): p. 97 [details]
original description
(of Miogypsina (Miolepidocyclina) Barker & Grimsdale, 1937 †) Barker, R. W.; Grimsdale, T. F. (1937). Studies of Mexican fossil Foraminifera. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 10.</em> 19: 161-178. [details] Available for editors [request]
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]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test large, up to 4 mm in diameter, asymmetrical and subpolygonal to discoidal, protoconch and deuteroconch surrounded by thick wall and then by nepionic spiral, embryonic and nepionic chambers not apical but eccentric in position and situated some distance from the periphery in both microspheric and megalospheric generations, with some equatorial chambers lying between the early stage and the marginal fringe, equatorial chambers spatulate to ogival, lateral chambers present on both sides of the equatorial layer. L. Miocene (Aquitanian, ?L. Burdigalian); Mediterranean region of Europe and Africa; USA: California, Mississippi, Florida; Mexico; Puerto Rico; Ecuador; Panama; East Indies. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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