Haurania

Haurania
Temporal range: Middle Lias to Bathonian
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): SAR
(unranked): Rhizaria
Phylum: Retaria
Subphylum: Foraminifera
Subclass: Textulariia
Order: Loftusiida
Family: Spirocyclinidae
Genus: Haurania
Hensen, 1948

Haurania is a genus of elongated, finely agglutinated benthic foraminifera included in the Spirocyclinidae. The test is free, starting with a brief planispiral coil followed by a straight uncoiled stage. The exterior is imperforate, the interior divided by radial septula or beams, pertendicular to the septa and outer wall. The aperture is cribrate, a series of openings on the terminal face.

This genus is known from the lower and middle Jurassic of China, Iraq and Morocco.

References

    • Alfred R. Loeblich, jr & Helen Tappan 1964. Sarcodina, Chiefly "Thecamoebians" and Foraminiferida. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part C, Protista 2. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.
    • A.R. Loeblich & H Tappan, 1988, in GSI.ir Paleontology,
    • Rotaliata, Textulariana http://www.foraminifera.eu/rotaliatatex.php
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