Foraminifera taxon details
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Diagnosis Test attached, elongate, and may exceed 1 mm in length, globular proloculus encircled by elongate, undivided tubular second chamber that is planispirally enrolled for up to three or four whorls, then uncoils in zigzag bends that commonly overlap the early part of the test so that it can only be seen from the attached side; wall calcareous, imperforate, porcelaneous, surface rough; aperture at the open end of the tubular chamber. U. Carboniferous (Stephanian), Virgilian; USA: Texas; Romania; Bulgaria. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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