Taxonomy
Original description: Test wall microperforate with randomly scattered pores averaging 0.8 microns in diameter, surface smooth. Test small, low to rarely moderately low trochospiral, equatorial periphery subrounded, moderately to strongly lobate; weakly biconvex; chambers subglobular, usually reniform in equatorial view and a slightly compressed oval shape in edge view, dextrally or sinistrally coiled in two whorls of from 8 to 11 chambers that increase moderately in size, usually with 4, rarely 3 and up to 5.5 chambers in the final whorl; sutures depressed, radial, straight; umbilicus shallow, moderately wide, averaging 24% of the test diameter; aperture an extraumbilical low arch that extends from the equatorial peripheral margin almost to the umbilicus, bordered by a narrow lip that usually broadens to an imperforate portical flap that may partly cover the umbilicus, with relict portici surrounding the umbilicus.
Entries in the Catalog of original descriptions: Microhedbergella renilaevis
Wall type:
Character matrix
| test outline: | Lobate | chamber arrangement: | Trochospiral | edge view: | aperture: | Extraumbilical | |
| sp chamber shape: | Globular | coiling axis: | Low-moderate | periphery: | aperture border: | Thin lip | |
| umb chbr shape: | umbilicus: | Wide | periph margin shape: | accessory apertures: | Relict | ||
| spiral sutures: | umb depth: | Shallow | wall texture: | Smooth | shell porosity: | Microperforate: <1µm | |
| umbilical or test sutures: | Moderately depressed | final-whorl chambers: | 3-5.5 | N.B. These characters are used for advanced search. N/A - not applicable | |||
Geological Range:
Last occurrence (top): within T. primula zone (107.39-111.84Ma, top in Albian stage). Data source: [copied from Chronos database]
First occurrence (base): at base of M. renilaevis zone (0% up, 113.2Ma, in Albian stage). Data source: zonal marker (from Timescale Creator)
Plot of range and occurrence data:
Huber, B. T. & Leckie, R. M. (2011). Planktic foraminiferal species turnover across deep-sea Aptian/Albian boundary sections. Journal of Foraminiferal Research. 41: 53-95. gs O Huber, B. T., Watkins, D. K. & Petrizzo, M. R. (2026). Integrated Albian-Cenomanian calcareous nannofossil and planktic
foraminiferal biostratigraphy and paleoceanography of southern high
latitude IODP sites drilled on Naturaliste Plateau (southeast Indian
Ocean). Cretaceous Research. 189[2027]: 1-43. gs OReferences:

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Microhedbergella renilaevis compiled by the pforams@mikrotax project team viewed: 10-10-2026
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