Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Brönnimann, P.; Conrad, M. (1967). Cinquième note sur les Foraminifères du Crétacé inférieur de la région genevoise. Melathrokerion valserinensis, n. gen., sp., un foraminifère nouveau du Barrémien à faciès urgonien dans le Jura français. <em>Compte Rendu des Séances de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève, Nouvelle Série.</em> 1(3)[1966]: 129-151., available online at https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:148722 page(s): p. 132 [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test free, nautiloid, coiling planispiral and involute, with a slight tendency to be streptospiral in the early stage, few chambers per whorl, sutures radial, slightly arched, periphery broadly rounded; wall microgranular, agglutinated, solid, and simple in the early stage, later becoming pseudoalveolar with very narrow cylindrical canaliculi piercing the wall but not becoming true alveoles, hence in section appearing radially striate, pseudoalveolar structure not present in early stage or in the apertural face; aperture a crescentic areal slit across the apertural face above its base. L. Cretaceous (U. Barremian to Bedoulian); Switzerland; France; Spain; USSR: Crimea. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Grammatical gender 30.1.2. a genus-group name that is or ends in a Greek word transliterated into Latin without other changes takes the gender given for that word in standard Greek dictionaries;
Kerion "honeycomb" is neuter in Greek. [details]
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