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Asterocyclina
Classification
Phylum:
Protista
Subphylum:
Sarcodina
Class:
Reticularea
Subclass:
Granuloreticulosia
Order:
Foraminiferida
Suborder:
Rotalina
Superfamily:
Orbitoidacea
Family:
Discocyclinidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Asterocyclina GÜMBEL, 1870, *840, p. 689. [nom. subst. pro Asterodiscus SCHAFHAUTL, 1863 (non EHRENBERG, 1840; non Asteriacites SCHLOTHEIM, 1820)
Type Species:
Asteriacites ophiurus SCHLOTHEIM, 1820, p. 324 [was Asterodiscus pentagonalis Schafhäutl, 1863, *1638, p. 107, = *Calcarina? stellata D'ARCHIAC, 1846, *37, p. 199, OD (M) - See footnote in Desc.]
Images
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Fig. 587,3a. *A. stellata (d'Archiac), Lutet.-Auvers., Fr., ext. view, X4 (*2120). -- Fig. 587,3b,c. A. georgiana (Cushman), U.Eoc. (Ocala), USA, vert. and equat. secs., X40 (*2113b)
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Eu.-Indo-Pac.Reg.-N.Am.-S.Am.
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
M.Eoc.
Beginning International Stage:
Lutetian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
48.07
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Eoc.
Ending International Stage:
Priabonian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
33.9
Description
Test stellate, with radial zones of elongate equatorial chambers in equatorial plane. (The name Asteriacites was published by VON SCHLOTHEIM in 1813 (Taschenb. Mineralogie, v. 7, p. 68, 109) a, designation of In asterozoan (p. 68) and of a foraminifer (p. 109). In 1820 the same author (Die Petrefactenkunde, p. 324) referred to the echinoderm as Asteriacites, interpreted by NEAVE as a lapsus (pro Asteriacites SCHLOTHEIM, 1813, p. 68). Then, in 1822 SCHLOTHEIM again published Asteriacites (Petrefactenkunde Nachtrag 1, p. 71) as the nJme for his (l813, p. 109) foraminifer. The ambiguous application of Asteriacites in 1813 is resolved by fixing it herein as the name for an ophiuroid (p. 68), with type-species by subsequent monotypy as Asteriacites ophiurus SCHLOTHEIM, 1820, p. 324. Asteriacites SCHLOTHEIM, 1822 (type, A. patellaris) is a junior homonym, cited properly as (non Asteriacites SCHLOTHEIM, 1820).]
References
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Protista
Subphylum:
Sarcodina
Class:
Reticularea
Subclass:
Granuloreticulosia
Order:
Foraminiferida
Suborder:
Rotalina
Superfamily:
Orbitoidacea
Family:
Discocyclinidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Asterocyclina GÜMBEL, 1870, *840, p. 689. [nom. subst. pro Asterodiscus SCHAFHAUTL, 1863 (non EHRENBERG, 1840; non Asteriacites SCHLOTHEIM, 1820)
Type Species:
Asteriacites ophiurus SCHLOTHEIM, 1820, p. 324 [was Asterodiscus pentagonalis Schafhäutl, 1863, *1638, p. 107, = *Calcarina? stellata D'ARCHIAC, 1846, *37, p. 199, OD (M) - See footnote in Desc.]
Images
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Fig. 587,3a. *A. stellata (d'Archiac), Lutet.-Auvers., Fr., ext. view, X4 (*2120). -- Fig. 587,3b,c. A. georgiana (Cushman), U.Eoc. (Ocala), USA, vert. and equat. secs., X40 (*2113b)
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Eu.-Indo-Pac.Reg.-N.Am.-S.Am.
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
M.Eoc.
Beginning International Stage:
Lutetian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
48.07
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Eoc.
Ending International Stage:
Priabonian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
33.9
Description
Test stellate, with radial zones of elongate equatorial chambers in equatorial plane. (The name Asteriacites was published by VON SCHLOTHEIM in 1813 (Taschenb. Mineralogie, v. 7, p. 68, 109) a, designation of In asterozoan (p. 68) and of a foraminifer (p. 109). In 1820 the same author (Die Petrefactenkunde, p. 324) referred to the echinoderm as Asteriacites, interpreted by NEAVE as a lapsus (pro Asteriacites SCHLOTHEIM, 1813, p. 68). Then, in 1822 SCHLOTHEIM again published Asteriacites (Petrefactenkunde Nachtrag 1, p. 71) as the nJme for his (l813, p. 109) foraminifer. The ambiguous application of Asteriacites in 1813 is resolved by fixing it herein as the name for an ophiuroid (p. 68), with type-species by subsequent monotypy as Asteriacites ophiurus SCHLOTHEIM, 1820, p. 324. Asteriacites SCHLOTHEIM, 1822 (type, A. patellaris) is a junior homonym, cited properly as (non Asteriacites SCHLOTHEIM, 1820).]