Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Mangin, J. P., 1954, Description d'un nouveau genre de Foraminifère: Fallotella alavensis, Bulletin Scientifique de Bourgogne, Dijon (1952-1953) 14:209-219. page(s): p. 209 [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test conical, early stage with much reduced low trochospiral coiling, megalospheric proloculus apical in position; exoskeleton simple, with numerous radial beams perpendicular to the septa, new ones being intercalated in the larger chambers so that spacing remains nearly constant, a rudimentary horizontal rafter consists only of a ridge paralleling the septa at the inside surface of the outer wall of each chamber; aperture consists of a few large pores on the basal surface of the cone. M. Paleocene; Spain; France; Italy; Yugoslavia; Albania; Greece; Turkey; Iran; Algeria. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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