Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Marie, P., 1950, Queraltina, nouveau genre de foraminifères de I'Eocène Pyrénéen, Bulletin de Ia Société Géologique de France, ser. 5 20:73-80. page(s): p. 73 [details]
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 distinctly trochospiral but bievolute, lenticular, asymmetrical and inequally biconvex, umbilical side more convex and chambers more inflated, eight or nine gradually enlarging chambers in the final whorl, sutures curved, depressed, periphery bicarinate; wall calcareous, optically granular, coarsely perforate, surface may be pustulose or rugose; primary aperture a small rounded interiomarginal and equatorial opening bordered by a distinct lip, with supplementary opening at the periphery between the two keels. M. Eocene (Lutetian) to U. Eocene (Bartonian); France; Spain. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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