Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Hamaoui, M.; Saint-Marc, P. (1970). Microfaunes et microfaciès du Cénomanien du Proche-Orient. <em>Bulletin des Centres de Recherches Exploration-Production Elf Aquitaine.</em> 4: 257-352. page(s): p. 262 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Diagnosis Test large, up to 1.6 mm in diameter, planispirally enrolled and semi-involute, numerous low and very broad chambers per whorl, increasing from about eight in the first whorl up to thirty in the final somewhat flaring whorl, interior subdivided by an endoskeletal median plate that is basally digitate, the separate portions attaching as pillars between the multiple openings of the preceding chamber, sutures distinct, depressed, slightly arched back at the periphery; wall calcareous, imperforate, microgranular; aperture consists of a row of openings along the apertural face. U. Cretaceous (Cenomanian); Israel; Lebanon. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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