Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Parker, F. L. (1976). Taxonomic notes on some planktonic Foraminifera. Progress in Micropaleontology. 258-262. page(s): p. 258 [details]
additional source
Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1987). Foraminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. 970pp., available online at https://books.google.pt/books?id=n_BqCQAAQBAJ [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test tiny, coiled in a low to flat trochospiral, chambers globular to ovate, five to eight in the final whorl, sutures radial, depressed, periphery rounded, peripheral outline lobulate; wall calcareous, thin, very finely perforate, with more and slightly larger pores on the spiral side, including some along the spiral suture, surface smooth and nonspinose; aperture a low interiomarginal umbilical-extraumbilical arch with a narrow bordering lip. M. Pliocene to Holocene; Caribbean; Pacific. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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