hantkeninid

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hantkeninid (plural hantkeninids)

  1. (paleontology) A member of the extinct family Hantkeninidae of planktonic foraminifera.
    • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 82:
      But la grande coupure occurred in two pulses about 350,000 years apart, just after the last hantkeninids found their eternal rest.