Haurania

Haurania
Temporal range: Middle Lias to Bathonian
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Phylum: Retaria
Subphylum: Foraminifera
Class: Rotaliata
Order: Textulariida
Family: Spirocyclinidae
Genus: Haurania
Hensen, 1948

Haurania is an 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, pertendicular 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.

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