Foraminifera name details
original description
Lalicker, C. G. (1948). A new genus of Foraminifera from the Upper Cretaceous. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 22: 624. page(s): p. 624 [details]
basis of record
Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1987). Foraminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. 970pp., available online at https://books.google.pt/books?id=n_BqCQAAQBAJ [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test planispirally enrolled, nearly involute, biumbilicate, chambers globular and few per whorl, later ones broadening perpendicular to the plane of coiling, with final stage developing a multiple aperture and two opposing chambers on opposite sides of the median plane, sutures depressed, periphery rounded; wall calcareous, perforate, radial in structure, surface smooth, hispid or pitted; aperture an interiomarginal equatorial arch, later divided into two openings, and finally with one on each of the two opposed terminal chambers. U. Cretaceous (Campanian); cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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