Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Omara, S. (1956). New Foraminifera from the Cenomanian of Sinai, Egypt. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 30(4): 883-890. page(s): p. 887 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description
(of Begia Smout, 1956 †) Smout, A. H. (1956). Three new Cretaceous genera of foraminifera related to the Ceratobuliminidae. <em>Micropaleontology.</em> 2(4): 335-345. page(s): p. 339 [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test trochospiral, planoconvex to unequally biconvex, umbilicus closed, chambers with a narrow internal plate extending back from one septum to the previous septum, resulting in a kink or indentation in the septal suture where it touches the latter; wall of imperforate, nonlamellar granular calcite, probably agglutinated; aperture extending from the umbilicus to the periphery, then bending sharply to parallel the peripheral margin, with an apertural tooth projecting into the aperture. L. Cretaceous (Albian) to U. Cretaceous (Turonian); Egypt; Israel; Iraq; Iran; Yugoslavia. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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