Foraminifera name details
Waldoschmittia McCulloch, 1977
556731 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:556731)
unaccepted (homonym of Porifera genus)
Genus
Waldoschmittia angularis McCulloch, 1977 (type by original designation)
McCulloch, I. (1977). Qualitative observations on Recent foraminiferal tests with emphasis on the eastern Pacific. University of Southern California. Los Angeles., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=tPw_AAAAIAAJ [details] Available for editors 
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2021). World Foraminifera Database. Waldoschmittia McCulloch, 1977. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=556731 on 2024-04-16
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McCulloch, I. (1977). Qualitative observations on Recent foraminiferal tests with emphasis on the eastern Pacific. University of Southern California. Los Angeles., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=tPw_AAAAIAAJ [details] Available for editors [request]
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]
[request] 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
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Diagnosis Test palmate in outline, flattened, periphery carinate, early stage with small chambers added in varying planes and possibly sigmomorphine, later chambers biserial and increasing rapidly in height, final chamber comprising one-half to two-thirds the test length, margin lobulate and may have small spinal projection at the proximal tip of each chamber and on the proloculus, sutures oblique, depressed; wall calcareous, hyaline, finely perforate, surface smooth; aperture terminal, an elongate slit bordered by a carinate rim that continues into the peripheral keel of the test. Holocene; E. Pacific, off Mexico. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]