Foraminifera taxon details
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test rhomboidal in outline, compressed to fusiform in section, biserial throughout, chambers increasing rapidly in breadth as added, sutures oblique, thickened, and elevated; wall calcareous, optically granular, apparently lacking pores, surface ornamented by limbate and elevated sutures and marginal keel and may have diagonally placed longitudinal costae; aperture a small opening at the base of the apertural face, no toothplate. L. Paleocene (Danian) to M. Eocene (Lutetian); North America; Caribbean; Italy; Morocco; New Zealand. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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