Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Loeblich, A.R. and Tappan, H. 1964, The Species and Stratigraphic Distribution of Caucasina and Aeolomorphella, New Genus (Foraminiferida), Tulane Stud. Geol., 1964a, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 69–88. , available online at https://journals.tulane.edu/index.php/tsgp/article/view/376 page(s): p. 84 [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 elongate, robust, circular to oval in section, early stage with up to six chambers per whorl in a close-coiled low trochospiral, spire later rapidly increasing in height, and reduced to triserial and finally biserial, chambers broad and low, final pair of chambers higher and occupying up to one-third the test height, sutures slightly oblique, depressed; wall calcareous, finely perforate, optically granular, surface smooth; aperture a high loop extending up the apertural face, with the posterior margin folded inward to become a toothplate. U. Cretaceous (Campanian); USA: N. Alaska. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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