Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Delage, Y.; Hérouard, E. (1896). Traité de Zoologie Concrète. Tome I. La Cellule et les Protozoaires. <em>Schleicher Frères, Paris.</em> 1-584., available online at https://archive.org/details/traitedezoologie02dela [details]
taxonomy source
Pawlowski, J.; Holzmann, M.; Tyszka, J. (2013). New supraordinal classification of Foraminifera: Molecules meet morphology. <em>Marine Micropaleontology.</em> 100: 1-10., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257196933 [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]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Planktonic in habit; test wall of perforate hyaline calcite, optically radiate, preferred crystal orientation with c-axis normal to surface; primary lamination bilamellar, secondary lamination due to addition of shell material during formation of new chamber; surface crust may develop at time of gametogenesis. M. Jurassic (Bathonian) to Holocene. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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