Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Heron-Allen, E.; Earland, A. (1910). On the recent and fossil Foraminifera of the shore-sands of Selsey Bill, Sussex - V. The Cretaceous Foraminifera. <em>Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society.</em> 401-426. page(s): p. 410, 414 [details]
basis of record
Hayward, B.W., Kawagata, S., Sabaa, A.T., Grenfell, H.R., van Kerckhoven, L., Johnson, K., and Thomas, E., 2012. The last global extinction (Mid-Pleistocene) of deep-sea benthic foraminifera (Chrysalogoniidae, Ellipsoidinidae, Glandulonodosariidae, Plectofrondiculariidae, Pleursostomellidae, Stilostomellidae), their Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic history and taxonomy: Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research Special Publication, v. 43, p. 408., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256078664 [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 elongate, early stage biserial, later tending to become uniserial but with alternating cuneate chambers, rarely completely rectilinear in the final stage, sutures depressed, slightly curved; wall calcareous, perforate, optically granular, surface smooth; aperture subterminal, an arched slit with overhanging hoodlike margin, with internal tube that extends from an expansion just within the aperture through the chamber to attach to the previous apertural foramen. U. Cretaceous (Turonian); Europe. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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