Foraminifera taxon details
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Diagnosis Test planispirally enrolled, close coiled, biumbilicate, chambers inflated and subglobular with prominent peripheral hollow tubulospine arising from the forward margin of the chambers, tubulospine may be overlapped by the succeeding chamber, sutures radial, distinct, depressed; wall calcareous, finely perforate except for the imperforate apertural face and tubulospines, surface smooth; aperture interiomarginal and equatorial in the early stage with bordering flangelike lips, later accompanied by multiple areal secondary openings, each with a protruding narrow lip bordering the rounded to irregular opening, welldeveloped specimens may have a protruding pore plate covering the apertural face, with imperforate wall between the apertural openings, multiple openings may be filled by secondary shell deposition in gerontic individuals. U. Eocene; cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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