Massilina laevigata (Cushman and Todd, 1944)

Symphonia, Tabita K. & Senthil, Nathan D., 2019, Taxonomic notes on Recent Foraminifera from the Continental Shelf-Slope Region of Southwestern Bay of Bengal, East Coast of India, Palaeontologia Electronica (55 A) 22 (3), pp. 1-89 : 61

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.26879/811

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11073985

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F787AB-FFD6-FF89-6BD5-FB62FEC45AA7

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scientific name

Massilina laevigata (Cushman and Todd, 1944)
status

 

Massilina laevigata (Cushman and Todd, 1944) View in CoL

Figure 17.9 View FIGURE 17. 1-2

1944 Spiroloculina laevigata Cushman and Todd , p. 67, pl. 9, figs. 26-29.

2014 Spiroloculina laevigata (Cushman and Todd) ; Panchang and Nigam, pl. 6, fig. 19a-b.

Description. Test large, robust, lateral view fusiform, wall calcareous, imperforate, surface smooth; chambers initially compressed, final chambers inflated, chamber arrangement spiroloculine, gradually increasing in size as added; periphery broadly rounded, sutures distinct and very depressed; aperture terminal, round at the end of a short neck, weakly rimmed, with a simple bifid tooth.

Kingdom

Chromista

Phylum

Foraminifera

Class

Tubothalamea

Order

Miliolida

SubOrder

Miliolina

Family

Hauerinidae

SubFamily

Hauerininae

Genus

Massilina

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