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Loftusia
Classification
Phylum:
Protista
Subphylum:
Sarcodina
Class:
Reticularea
Subclass:
Granuloreticulosia
Order:
Foraminiferida
Suborder:
Textulariina
Superfamily:
Lituolacea
Family:
Lituolidae
Subfamily:
Loftusiinae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Loftusia Brady in Carpenter & BRADY, 1870, *278, p. 739, 751
Type Species:
L. persica, OD (M)
Images
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Fig. 149,1-4. *L. persica, Iran; 1, ext., X1, 2, tang. long. sec. in reflected light, showing alveolar appearance of layer beneath thin epidermis, X22.5, 3, transv. sec., part showing separate epidermal layer, alveolar subepidermal layer, and secondary septula, X33, 4, transv. sec. in Canada balsam, in transmitted light, X5 (*278)
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
SW.Asia, Eu.(Balkans.)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Cret.(Maastricht.)
Beginning International Stage:
Maastrichtian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
72.17
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Cret.(Maastricht.)
Ending International Stage:
Maastrichtian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
66.04
Description
Test large, to 80.0 mm in length, free, fusiform, planispirally enrolled, with elongate axis of coiling, primary septa strongly oblique to regularly enrolled spiral lamina, secondary septula perpendicular to primary septa, wall agglutinated, enclosing tests of smaller foraminifers and mineral fragments in calcareous cement, thin spiral lamina largely of calcareous granules closely cemented.
References
Buck, Emil, , \& Brady, H. B., 1870, Description of Parkeria and Loftusia, two gigantic types of arenaceous Foraminifera: Royal Soc. London, Philos. Trans. (1869), v. 159, p. 721-754, pl. 72-80, text-fig. A-C.
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Protista
Subphylum:
Sarcodina
Class:
Reticularea
Subclass:
Granuloreticulosia
Order:
Foraminiferida
Suborder:
Textulariina
Superfamily:
Lituolacea
Family:
Lituolidae
Subfamily:
Loftusiinae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Loftusia Brady in Carpenter & BRADY, 1870, *278, p. 739, 751
Type Species:
L. persica, OD (M)
Images
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Fig. 149,1-4. *L. persica, Iran; 1, ext., X1, 2, tang. long. sec. in reflected light, showing alveolar appearance of layer beneath thin epidermis, X22.5, 3, transv. sec., part showing separate epidermal layer, alveolar subepidermal layer, and secondary septula, X33, 4, transv. sec. in Canada balsam, in transmitted light, X5 (*278)
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
SW.Asia, Eu.(Balkans.)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Cret.(Maastricht.)
Beginning International Stage:
Maastrichtian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
72.17
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Cret.(Maastricht.)
Ending International Stage:
Maastrichtian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
66.04
Description
Test large, to 80.0 mm in length, free, fusiform, planispirally enrolled, with elongate axis of coiling, primary septa strongly oblique to regularly enrolled spiral lamina, secondary septula perpendicular to primary septa, wall agglutinated, enclosing tests of smaller foraminifers and mineral fragments in calcareous cement, thin spiral lamina largely of calcareous granules closely cemented.
References
Buck, Emil, , \& Brady, H. B., 1870, Description of Parkeria and Loftusia, two gigantic types of arenaceous Foraminifera: Royal Soc. London, Philos. Trans. (1869), v. 159, p. 721-754, pl. 72-80, text-fig. A-C.