Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Hofker, J. (1956). Tertiary foraminifera of coastal Ecuador- Part II Additional notes on the Eocene species. <em>Journal of palaeontology.</em> 30: 891-958. page(s): p. 915 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record
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, flattened, early chambers planispirally coiled, with rapidly enlarging chambers forming about one and a half volutions, about nine chambers in the last whorl, followed by a 90¡ change in the axis of coiling and biserial later chambers, sutures strongly oblique; wall calcareous, thin, finely perforate, aperture loop shaped, with Bolivinalike toothplate, those of successive chambers changing orientation by 180¡. Paleocene to U. Eocene, Pliocene; Ecuador; S. Atlantic. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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