Acarinina Explained
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
Notes and 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.
- http://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=721545 Acarinina
- Book: [{{google books|id=n_BqCQAAQBAJ|page=478|plainurl=yes}} Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification ]. Loeblich. Tappan. 478. Springer. 2015.
