Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Cushman, J. A. (1927). American Upper Cretaceous species of Bolivina and related species. <em>Contributions from the Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research.</em> 2(4): 85-91., available online at https://cushmanfoundation.allenpress.com/Portals/_default/files/pubarchive/cclfr/2cclfr4.pdf page(s): p 89; note: Genus is feminine, all the species added to the genus by Cushman (1927) have feminine specific epithets.
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original description
(of Elongateporeia Georgescu, Arz, Macauley, Kukulski, Arenillas & Pérez-Rodríguez, 2011 †) Georgescu, M. D., Arz, J.A ., Macauley, R. V., Kukulski, R. B., Arenillas, I.; Pérez-Rodríguez, I. (2011). Late Cretaceous (late Santonian-Maastrichtian) serial planktic and benthic foraminifera with pore mounds or pore mound-based ornamentation structures. <em>Revista Española de Micropaleontología.</em> 43(1-2): 109-139., available online at https://www.igme.es/Publicaciones/revistaMicro/pdfs/Micropaleo43_2_1_2011.pdf page(s): p. 117 [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 large, robust, rhomboidal in outline, flaring, laterally compressed to lenticular in section, chambers broad and low, increasing rapidly in breadth as added, biserial throughout, basal margin of the chambers may have short and proximally directed projections over the preceding septa that merge into the longitudinal costae, sutures oblique, slightly depressed, commonly obscured by the surface ornamentation; wall calcareous, optically radiate, finely perforate, with dense and evenly distributed pores, surface with strong tubercles and longitudinal costae that may bifurcate distally; aperture an elongate narrow opening, basal in the early stage and areal in later chambers, with smooth border and short internal toothplate, the broad, roughly triangular free part protruding through the opening as a long tooth. U. Cretaceous (U. Santonian) to Paleocene; cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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