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Turanta fida

Protozoa - Nassellaria - Tripedurnulidae

Discussion

Original description: Test medium sized, subspherical, with nearly uniformly sized of pentagonal and hexagonal pore frames. Pore frames with thick rims and sides without prominent nodes at vertices. Apical horn about four times as long as vertical horn. Foot about as four fifths length of apical horn. Apical horn andfoot massive, triradiate in cross-section, with three narrow ridges alternating with three wide grooves, grooves nearly twice as wide as ridges. Vertical horn much shorter and thinner, triradiate with three narrow ridges alternating with three narrow grooves.

Etymology: Fidus-a-um (Latin, adj.) faithful.

Taxonomy
Turanta fida was named by Yeh (1987). Its type specimen is NMNS (000163) and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Suplee-Izee area, OR-600A, which is in a Toarcian marine tuff/limestone in the Hyde Formation of Oregon.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
T. okamurai, T. unica

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1987Turanta fida Yeh p. 101 figs. Pl. 11, figs. 14, 19-20, 26-27

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RankNameAuthor
—Life
—Eukaryota()
classProtozoaGoldfuss 1820
subphylumSarcodinaSchmarda 1871
classReticulareaLankester 1885
subclassRadiolaria(Müller 1858)
RankNameAuthor
superorderPolycystina(Ehrenberg 1838)
orderNassellariaEhrenberg 1875
familyTripedurnulidaeDumitrica 1991
genusTurantaPessagno and Blome 1982
speciesfida

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Turanta fida Yeh 1987
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: silicap
Environment: marinep
Locomotion: passively mobilep
Life habit: planktonicp
Diet: omnivorep
Created: 2005-01-28 01:13:47
Modified: 2005-01-28 03:13:47
Source: p = phylum
Reference: Kiessling 1999

Age range: Early/Lower Toarcian or 184.20000 to 182.90000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Toarcian184.2 - 182.9USA (Oregon) Turanta fida (type locality: 124328 124329 124331)