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''Haurania'' is a genus of elongated, finely agglutinated benthic foraminifera included in the
Spirocyclinidae Spirocyclinidae is a family of foraminifera included in the order Loftusiida. Tests are variably discoidal, aggulitinated with calcareous or microgranular cement. Interiors are complex with chambers partially subdivided. Walls and septa are pier ...
. 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 The ''Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology'' (or ''TIP'') published by the Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas Press, is a definitive multi-authored work of some 50 volumes, written by more than 300 paleontologists, and co ...
, Part C, Protista 2. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press. * A.R. Loeblich & H Tappan, 1988, in GSI.ir Paleontology,

* Rotaliata, Textulariana https://web.archive.org/web/20151222074257/http://www.foraminifera.eu/rotaliatatex.php {{Taxonbar, from=Q22286502 Loftusiida Prehistoric Foraminifera genera Early Jurassic genus first appearances Middle Jurassic extinctions