Acarinina
Acarinina Temporal range: Early Paleocene - Bartonian
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Clade: | SAR |
Phylum: | Foraminifera |
Class: | Globothalamea |
Order: | Rotaliida |
Suborder: | Globigerinina |
Superfamily: | Globorotalioidea |
Family: | †Truncorotaloididae |
Genus: | †Acarinina Subbotina, 1953 |
Acarinina[1] is an extinct genus of foraminifera belonging to the family Truncorotaloididae of the superfamily Globorotalioidea and the suborder Globigerinina.[2] Its fossil range is from the upper Paleocene to the middle Eocene.[3] Its type species is .[2]
Description[]
The test is subglobular, close coiled and low trochospiral. It has four to five rapidly enlarging chambers per whorl. It has a cosmopolitan distribution.[3]
Species[]
Species in Acarinina include:[2]
References[]
- ^ Subbotina, N. N. (1953). Iskopaemye Foraminifery SSSR (Globigerinidy, Khantkeninidy i Globorotaliidy) [Fossil Foraminifera of the USSR (Globigerinidae, Hantkeninidae and Globorotalidae)]. Trudy Vsesoyuzhnyy Neftyanoy Nauchno-Issledovatel´skogo Geologo-Razvedochnogo Instituta (VNIGRI), 76: 296 p. (in Russian)
- ^ a b c Acarinina, World Foraminifera Database, accessed 27 November 2018
- ^ a b Loeblich; Tappan (2015). Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification. Springer. p. 478.
Categories:
- Foraminifera genera
- Globigerinina