Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Earland, A. (1934). Foraminifera. Part III. The Falklands sector of the Antarctic (excluding South Georgia). <em>Discovery Reports, University Press, Cambridge.</em> 10 (1935): p 1-208. [details] Available for editors [request]
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Diagnosis Test attached, early chambers in an irregular planispiral series, later uncoiled, with chambers flattened against the attachment and convex on the free surface, chamber margins irregular; wall finely agglutinated, rather smoothly finished; aperture a large circular opening on the free upper surface, bordered by a slightly elevated lip. Holocene; South America: Drake Straits. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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