WoRMS taxon details
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Diagnosis Test free, large, up to 3.8 mm in length, subcylindrical or slightly curved at the initial end, early stage enrolled with a single nearly planispiral whorl, later uniserial, rectilinear, and of nearly constant test diameter, chambers with eight to fourteen radial beams extending from the chamber floor to the roof and projecting about halfway to the center of the chamber cavity; wall thick, coarsely agglutinated, constructed of numerous small foraminiferal tests and other shells and foreign particles; aperture terminal, cribrate, five to ten irregular openings leading into the central area of the domed final chamber. U. Cretaceous (Senonian); France; England. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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