Foraminifera taxon details
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Diagnosis Test discoidal to auriculate, compressed, planispirally enrolled and partially to entirely evolute, tending to uncoil in the later stage, early sutures nearly radial, later ones somewhat arched, one or two short hemisepta intercalated between each two major septa at the periphery and extend inward for only a short distance; wall finely agglutinated, simple in structure; aperture areal in the enrolled stage, as seen in thin sections, becoming terminal and slitlike in the uncoiling chambers. L. Cretaceous (Albian); USA: Texas; USSR: W. Siberia. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Grammatical gender Generic names ending in "phragma" are considered of neuter gender. [details]
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