Foraminifera taxon details
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Diagnosis Test elongate, similar to Dentalina, up to 1.5 mm in length, rounded to oval in section, uniserial, rectilinear, flattened to slightly concave on one side and slightly produced terminally at the aperture, the three to ten chambers inflated and oblique sutures constricted on the convex opposite margin; wall calcareous, fibrous radial, finely perforate except for the imperforate apertural region, no primary or secondary lamination present, surface smooth and unornamented; aperture distinct, terminal, excentric, protruding on a neck, rounded or with radiating grooves or slits. L. Jurassic (L. Lias); cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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