Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Barker, R. W.; Grimsdale, T. F. (1937). Studies of Mexican fossil Foraminifera. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 10.</em> 19: 161-178. page(s): p. 169 [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]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test small, lenticular to asymmetrical, surface papillate, subequal protoconch and deuteroconch in the equatorial plane and surrounded by a common wall, large third chamber on the less convex side of the equatorial plane partially embraces the nucleoconch, a few smaller supplementary chambers form a spiral around the nucleoconch in a plane perpendicular to the equatorial plane of the test, equatorial layer doubled beyond the protoconch, the irregularly arcuate chambers communicating with chambers of the lateral layers by long stolons. M. Eocene; Mexico; Jamaica. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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