Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Schnitker, D., 1970, Upper Miocene foraminifera from near Grimesland, Pitt County, North Carolina, North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development, Division of Mineral Resources, Special Publication 3:1-128. page(s): p. 46 [details]
original description
(of Arthurina Jones, 1984) 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. 104 [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 free, ovate to reniform in outline, slightly flattened and asymmetrical, commonly with flat to concave ventral side and convex dorsal side, periphery may be rounded or have a thickened rim; wall calcareous, hyaline, finely perforate, surface smooth but may have a rounded scarlike structure near the aboral end of the test on the dorsal side; aperture rounded, eccentrically located on the concave ventral side, commonly in a slight depression or constriction of the test, provided with an entosolenian tube that arches inward across the chamber lumen to attach to the dorsal side and continues down the wall toward the aboral end. U. Miocene to Holocene; England; Ireland; Italy; USA: North Carolina. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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