Acarinina is an extinct genus of foraminifera belonging to the family Truncorotaloididae of the superfamily Globorotalioidea and the suborder Globigerinina. Its fossil range is from the upper Paleocene to the middle Eocene. Its type species is Acarinina nitida.

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.

Acarinina

Species

Species in Acarinina include:

Acarinina

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

Foraminifera genera

Globigerinina

Acarinina