Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1985). Some new and redefined genera and families of agglutinated foraminifera; I. <em>The Journal of Foraminiferal Research.</em> 15(2): 91-104., available online at https://doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.15.2.91 page(s): p. 92 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test free, flattened to lenticular, planispirally enrolled, numerous broad and low chambers per whorl that may increase rapidly in breadth and may uncoil in the later stage; wall agglutinated, granular, and homogeneous in appearance, without perforations or alveoles; aperture interiomarginal to areal, single or multiple. U. Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) to U. Cretaceous (Santonian); commonly in a carbonate shelf facies. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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