Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Redmond, C. D. (1964). The Foraminiferal Family Pfenderinidae in the Jurassic of Saudi Arabia. <em>Micropaleontology.</em> 10(2): 251-263., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/1484643 page(s): p. 257 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Diagnosis Test a high trochospiral, with somewhat inflated chambers, their inner surfaces thickened by a secondary deposit of shell material but lacking the solid central columella present in Pfenderina; wall of imperforate microgranular calcite; aperture a low arch at the base of the apertural face of the final chamber, covered by a finely perforate hemispherical apertural plate, space between the apertural face and apertural plate filled by a porous endoskeletal deposit, secondary intercameral foramina connected by a shallow groove or subcameral tunnel that spirals around the axis of coiling. M. Jurassic (Bathonian or Callovian); Saudia Arabia. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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