Foraminifera taxon details

Simobaculites Loeblich & Tappan, 1984 †

737703  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:737703)

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Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1984). Some new proteinaceous and agglutinated genera of Foraminiferida. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 58: 1158-1163.
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Simobaculites Loeblich & Tappan, 1984 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=737703 on 2024-03-28
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original description Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1984). Some new proteinaceous and agglutinated genera of Foraminiferida. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 58: 1158-1163.
page(s): p. 1162 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
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Diagnosis Test free, elongate, with broad and nearly flat sides, flattened to slightly lenticular in section, never circular and commonly even more flattened in preservation, early planispiral and evolute coil with about two whorls of six to seven chambers each, then abruptly changing to the rectilinear uniserial stage, sutures straight and radial in the coil, slightly depressed, straight and horizontal to slightly arched at the center of the flat sides in the rectilinear portion; wall agglutinated, with simple interior, constructed largely of fine quartz grains; aperture terminal, slitlike to fusiform, symmetrically located at the midpoint of the upper surface of the test. U. Pennsylvanian to L. Permian, Cretaceous (Albian, Cenomanian), Paleocene, Eocene, L. Miocene; USA: Alabama, California, Oklahoma, Texas. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]