Acarinina
Temporal range: Early Paleocene - Bartonian
Acarinina echinata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Phylum: Retaria
Subphylum: 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 Acarinina nitida.[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]

  • Acarinina africana
  • Acarinina alticonica
  • Acarinina angulosa
  • Acarinina aquiensis
  • Acarinina aspensis
  • Acarinina bollii
  • Acarinina boudreauxi
  • Acarinina bucharensis
  • Acarinina bullbrooki
  • Acarinina coalingensis
  • Acarinina collactea
  • Acarinina compacta
  • Acarinina convexa
  • Acarinina cuneicamerata
  • Acarinina discors
  • Acarinina dzegviensis
  • Acarinina echinata
  • Acarinina esnaensis
  • Acarinina esnehensis
  • Acarinina falsospiralis
  • Acarinina intermedia
  • Acarinina interposita
  • Acarinina kiwensis
  • Acarinina mattseensis
  • Acarinina mcgowrani
  • Acarinina mckannai
  • Acarinina medizzai
  • Acarinina microspherica
  • Acarinina multicamerata
  • Acarinina multiloculata
  • Acarinina nachtschevanica
  • Acarinina nitida
  • Acarinina oblonga
  • Acarinina pentacamerata
  • Acarinina planodorsalis
  • Acarinina praetopilensis
  • Acarinina primitiva
  • Acarinina proxima
  • Acarinina pseudosubsphaera
  • Acarinina pseudotopilensis
  • Acarinina punctocarinata
  • Acarinina quadratoseptata
  • Acarinina quetra
  • Acarinina rohri
  • Acarinina rotundimarginata
  • Acarinina rugosoaculeata
  • Acarinina sibaiyaensis
  • Acarinina sirabensis
  • Acarinina soldadoensis
  • Acarinina spinuloinflata
  • Acarinina strabocella
  • Acarinina subintermedia
  • Acarinina subsphaerica
  • Acarinina topilensis
  • Acarinina umbilicata
  • Acarinina umbonata
  • Acarinina vedica
  • Acarinina wilcoxensis

References

  1. ↑ 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)
  2. 1 2 3 Acarinina, World Foraminifera Database, accessed 27 November 2018
  3. 1 2 Loeblich; Tappan (2015). Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification. Springer. p. 478.
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