Foraminifera taxon details
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Diagnosis Test small, elongate fusiform in outline, ovoid in section, chambers one-half coil in length in cryptoquinqueloculine arrangement, may have only three chambers visible from the exterior, but sutures are obscured by surface costae and pits; wall calcareous, porcelaneous, surface with numerous large pits or pseudopores aligned between the longitudinal costae; aperture terminal, rounded, at the produced end of the final chamber. M. Oligocene (Rupelian); USA: Mississippi. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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