Foraminifera taxon details

Globorotalioidea Cushman, 1927

465814  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:465814)

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marine, fresh, terrestrial
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2021). World Foraminifera Database. Globorotalioidea Cushman, 1927. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera./aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=465814 on 2024-04-19
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2010-03-25 10:31:03Z
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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  PDF available [request] 
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Diagnosis Test trochospiral, periphery rounded to carinate; wall finely lamellar, perforate, of optically radial calcite, with inner organic lining and a primary organic membrane calcified on both sides to produce a primary bilamellar structure, but with thicker outer calcite layers; surface smooth, nonspinose, but may be pustulose or pitted, inflational pustules most prominent in the apertural region, pits when present are bordered by ridges and have one or more large pores at the center; primary aperture interiomarginal and extraumbilical-umbilical, may be bordered by an imperforate lip; supplementary sutural apertures and bullae may occur, accompanied by infralaminal accessory apertures. L. Paleocene (L. Danian) to Holocene. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]