NB This site is under active development, current content in the main database is primarily from Bolli et al 1994, Hayward et al. 2012, Holbourn et al. 2013, Holbourn and Kaminski 1997, Alegret & Thomas 2001, and Katz et al. 2003. It is intended to expand and develop this to provide rather comprehensive coverage of Mesozoic and Cenozoic deep-sea benthic foraminifera.
Daughter taxa (time control age-window is: 0-800Ma)![]() | ||||
![]() | ![]() | Quinqueloculina lamarckiana | ||
![]() | ![]() | Quinqueloculina seminulum | ||
![]() | Quinqueloculina venusta | |||
Quinqueloculina sp. |
Catalog entries: Quinqueloculina, Multiloculina, , Rumanoloculina, Trillina
NB These concise distinguishing features statements are used in the tables of daughter-taxa to act as quick summaries of the differences between e.g. species of one genus.
Wall composition:
Final whorl chambers: 0->0 |
Geological Range:
Last occurrence (top): within (-Ma, top in "Holocene" stage).
First occurrence (base): within (-Ma, base in "Holocene" stage).
Plot of occurrence data:
NB The ranges given for genera and higher taxa are the total ranges of species included in that taxon in this database - so the true total range of the taxon will usually be longer
Abich, H. (1859). Ueber das Steinsalz und seine Geologische Stellung im russischen Armenien. Mémoires de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St Petersbourg. 7: 61-150. gs d'Orbigny, A. D. (1826). Tableau méthodique de la classe des Céphalopodes. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris. 7: 245-314. gs Fichtel, L. von & Moll, J. P. C. von (1798). Testacea microscopica aliaque minuta ex generibus Argonauta et Nautilus ad naturam delineata et descripta. Microscopische und andere kleine Schalthiere aus den Geschlechtern Argonaute und Schiffer, nach der Natur gezeichnet und beschrieben. Camesina, Vienna. 1-124. gs Loeblich, A. R. Jr & Tappan, H. (1964). Sarcodina, chiefly “Thecamoebians” and Foraminiferida. In, Moore, R. C. (ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part C, Protista 2 (2 vols). Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, KS 1-900. gs Munier-Chalmas, E. (1882). La structure des Triloculines et des Quinqueloculines. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France. 10: 424-425. gs Neagu, T. (1984). Nouvelles données sur la morphologie du test, sur la systématique et la nomenclature des Miliolides Agatisthègues du Mésozoïque. Revista Española de Micropaleontología. 16: 75-90. gs Schwager, C. (1883). Die Foraminiferen aus den Eocaenablagerungen der libyschen Wüste und Aegyptens. Palaeontographica. 30: 79-153. gs Missing or ambiguous references: Egger 1857; References:
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Quinqueloculina compiled by the bforams@mikrotax project team viewed: 13-7-2025
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