Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Vaughan, T. W.; Cole, W. S. (1932). Cretaceous orbitoidal foraminifera from the Gulf states and central America. <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A.</em> 18: 611-618., available online at https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/18/10/611.full.pdf page(s): p. 611 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description
(of Lepidorbitoides (Cryptasterorbis) M.G. Rutten, 1935 †) Rutten, M. G., 1935, Larger foraminifera of northern Santa Clara Province, Cuba, Joumal of Paleontology 9:527-545. page(s): p. 533 [details] Available for editors [request]
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 small to medium sized, up to 4.5 mm in diameter, lenticular, umbonate, stellate, with four to eight rays that may be elevated as ribs, surface papillose with larger pustules on the umbo, bilocular embryo surrounded by thick wall and two large auxiliary chambers forming a quadriserial juvenarium, equatorial chambers in horizontal section diamond shaped to ogival in plan and increase in height from the center to the test periphery, up to sixteen layers of lateral chambers form distinct tiers on both sides of the equatorial layer, the layers decreasing in number from the umbo toward the periphery, where the equatorial layer is left exposed without lateral chambers, pillars well developed. U. Cretaceous (Campanian to Maastrichtian); USA: Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida; Guatemala; Cuba; central equatorial Pacific (DSDP site 315A). (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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