Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Davies, L. M. (1932). The Genera Dictyoconoides Nuttall, Lockhartia nov., and Rotalia Lamarck: Their Type Species, Generic Differences, and Fundamental Distinction from the Dictyoconus Group of Forms. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.</em> 57(02): 397-428., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0080456800016756 page(s): p. 406 [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 conical to lenticular, trochospiral, simple spire of numerous chambers visible on the strongly convex spiral side, structure similar to Dictyoconoides but lacks intercalary whorls of chambers, septa double, intraseptal canals present, broad umbilicus filled with numerous pillars that arise at the umbilical end of the chambers, appearing at the umbilical surface as pustules, numerous interconnecting umbilical cavities communicate with the chamber lumina and also open to the exterior through large circular pores or meandrine slits, peripheral margin with imperforate band; wall calcareous, lamellar, radially fibrous, coarsely perforate and punctate on the spiral side; apertural foramen an interiomarginal slit. Paleocene to M. Eocene; Punjab Salt Range; Arabia; Iraq; Somaliland. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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