Halenia is a genus of recent discorbacean foraminifera. It contains only one species, Halenia legrandi The test is free, a low trochspire with a rounded periphery; wall calcareous, monolamellar. Chambers are subglobular, all visible on spiral side, only last volution visible on umbilical side; final chamber with an umbilical flap. Sutures are depressed, radial on umbilical side, curved to sinuate on spiral side, with sutural slits on both sides.

Halenia legrandi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Phylum: Retaria
Subphylum: Foraminifera
Class: Fusulinata
Order: Endothyrida
Family: Mstiniidae
Genus: Halenia
Conil, 1980[1]
Species:
H. legrandi
Binomial name
Halenia legrandi
Conil, 1980[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Conil, R. (1980). Note sur quelques foraminifères du Strunien et du Dinantien d'Europe occidentale. Annales de la Société géologique de Belgique. 103: 43-53., available online at http://popups.ulg.ac.be/0037-9395/index.php?id=4041 page(s): p. 45