Cassigerinella is an extinct genus of
foraminifera
Foraminifera (; Latin for "hole bearers"; informally called "forams") are single-celled organisms, members of a phylum or class of amoeboid protists characterized by streaming granular Ectoplasm (cell biology), ectoplasm for catching food and ot ...
[Pokorný, V. (1955). Cassigerinella boudecensis n. gen., n. sp. (Foraminifera, Protozoa) z oligocénu zdánického flyse. Vestnik Ustredního Ústavu Geologického, 30: 136-140] belonging to the family
Cassigerinellidae
Cassigerinellidae is an extinct family of foraminifera belonging to the superfamily Guembelitrioidea and the suborder Globigerinina
The Globigerinina is a suborder of foraminiferans that are found as marine plankton. They produce hyaline cal ...
of the superfamily
Guembelitrioidea and the suborder
Globigerinina.
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World Foraminifera Database, accessed 27 November 2018 Its type species is ''
Cassigerinella chipolensis''.
Species
Species in ''Cassigerinella'' include:
* ''
Cassigerinella chipolensis''
* ''
Cassigerinella eocaenica''
* ''
Cassigerinella martinezpicoi''
* ''
Cassigerinella regularis''
* ''
Cassigerinella spinata''
References
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Foraminifera genera
Globigerinina