Haurania

Haurania Temporal range: Middle Lias to Bathonian
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
(unranked):	SAR
(unranked):	Rhizaria
Phylum:	Retaria
Subphylum:	Foraminifera
Subclass:	Textulariia
Order:	Loftusiida
Family:	Spirocyclinidae
Genus:	Haurania Hensen, 1948

Haurania is a genus of elongated, finely agglutinated benthic foraminifera included in the Spirocyclinidae. The test is free, starting with a brief planispiral coil followed by a straight uncoiled stage. The exterior is imperforate, the interior divided by radial septula or beams, perpendicular to the septa and outer wall. The aperture is cribrate, a series of openings on the terminal face.

This genus is known from the lower and middle Jurassic of China, Iraq and Morocco.

References

• Alfred R. Loeblich, jr & Helen Tappan 1964. Sarcodina, Chiefly "Thecamoebians" and Foraminiferida. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part C, Protista 2. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.
• A.R. Loeblich & H Tappan, 1988, in GSI.ir Paleontology, [1]
• Rotaliata, Textulariana https://web.archive.org/web/20151222074257/http://www.foraminifera.eu/rotaliatatex.php