Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Jones, R. W. (1984). A revised classification of the unilocular Nodosariida and Buliminida (Foraminifera). <em>Revista española de micropaleontología.</em> 16: 91-160. page(s): p. 118 [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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test small, rounded to ovate in outline, slightly compressed, but with low convex sides and carinate periphery, commonly tricarinate, with the median keel being most prominent; wall calcareous, perforate, hyaline radial, surface smooth and unornamented other than the peripheral keels; aperture subterminal, crescentic, one margin somewhat produced but does not form a hood like that of Parafissurina, internally provided with a long entosolenian tube attached to the dorsal wall and extending back nearly to the base of the chamber before flaring terminally. Oligocene to Holocene; cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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