Haurania
Haurania | |
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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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