Acarinina
| Acarinina Temporal range: Early Paleocene - Bartonian
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | SAR |
| Phylum: | Retaria |
| Subphylum: | Foraminifera |
| Class: | Globothalamea |
| Order: | Rotaliida |
| Suborder: | Globigerinina |
| Superfamily: | Globorotalioidea |
| Family: | †Truncorotaloididae |
| Genus: | †Acarinina Subbotina, 1953 |
Acarinina[1] is an extinct genus of foraminifera belonging to the family Truncorotaloididae of the superfamily Globorotalioidea and the suborder Globigerinina.[2] Its fossil range is from the upper Paleocene to the middle Eocene.[3] Its type species is Acarinina nitida.[2]
Description
The test is subglobular, close coiled and low trochospiral. It has four to five rapidly enlarging chambers per whorl. It has a cosmopolitan distribution.[3]
Species
Species in Acarinina include:[2]
- Acarinina africana
- Acarinina alticonica
- Acarinina angulosa
- Acarinina aquiensis
- Acarinina aspensis
- Acarinina bollii
- Acarinina boudreauxi
- Acarinina bucharensis
- Acarinina bullbrooki
- Acarinina coalingensis
- Acarinina collactea
- Acarinina compacta
- Acarinina convexa
- Acarinina cuneicamerata
- Acarinina discors
- Acarinina dzegviensis
- Acarinina echinata
- Acarinina esnaensis
- Acarinina esnehensis
- Acarinina falsospiralis
- Acarinina intermedia
- Acarinina interposita
- Acarinina kiwensis
- Acarinina mattseensis
- Acarinina mcgowrani
- Acarinina mckannai
- Acarinina medizzai
- Acarinina microspherica
- Acarinina multicamerata
- Acarinina multiloculata
- Acarinina nachtschevanica
- Acarinina nitida
- Acarinina oblonga
- Acarinina pentacamerata
- Acarinina planodorsalis
- Acarinina praetopilensis
- Acarinina primitiva
- Acarinina proxima
- Acarinina pseudosubsphaera
- Acarinina pseudotopilensis
- Acarinina punctocarinata
- Acarinina quadratoseptata
- Acarinina quetra
- Acarinina rohri
- Acarinina rotundimarginata
- Acarinina rugosoaculeata
- Acarinina sibaiyaensis
- Acarinina sirabensis
- Acarinina soldadoensis
- Acarinina spinuloinflata
- Acarinina strabocella
- Acarinina subintermedia
- Acarinina subsphaerica
- Acarinina topilensis
- Acarinina umbilicata
- Acarinina umbonata
- Acarinina vedica
- Acarinina wilcoxensis
References
- ^ Subbotina, N.N. (1953). Iskopaemye Foraminifery SSSR (Globigerinidy, Khantkeninidy i Globorotaliidy) [Fossil Foraminifera of the USSR (Globigerinidae, Hantkeninidae and Globorotalidae)]. Trudy Vsesoyuzhnyy Neftyanoy Nauchno-Issledovatel´skogo Geologo-Razvedochnogo Instituta (VNIGRI), 76: 296 p. (in Russian)
- ^ a b c Acarinina, World Foraminifera Database, accessed 27 November 2018
- ^ a b Loeblich; Tappan (2015). Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification. Springer. p. 478.