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 | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | SAR |
| Phylum: | Retaria |
| Subphylum: | Foraminifera |
| Class: | †Fusulinata |
| Order: | †Endothyrida |
| Family: | †Mstiniidae |
| Genus: | †Halenia Conil, 1980[1] |
| Species: | †H. legrandi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Halenia legrandi | |
References
edit- ^ 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
- A. R. Loeblich and H. Tappan, 1964. Sarcodina Chiefly "Thecamoebians" and Foraminiferida; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part C Protista 2. Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colo.
- A. R. Loeblich and H. Tappan, 1988. Forminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold.
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