Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1986). Some New and Revised Genera and Families of Hyaline Calcareous Foraminiferida (Protozoa). <em>Transactions of the American Microscopical Society.</em> 105(3): 239-265., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/3226297 page(s): p. 243 fig. 4-6 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description
(of Gladiaria Thalmann, 1941) Thalmann, H. E., 1941, Bibliography and index to new genera, species and varieties of foraminifera for the years 1937 and 1938, Journal of Paleontology 15:629-690. page(s): p. 652 [details]
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, somewhat flattened, early stage close coiled, later uncoiling and rectilinear, chambers broad and low, sutures oblique and curved, periphery subacute to carinate in the coil and on the dorsal margin, rounded on the ventral margin; wall calcareous, hyaline, perforate, optically radial, surface ornamented by strongly elevated sutures that may be costate or broken into a row of nodes, peripheral keel may be spinose, wall between sutures generally smooth or less commonly with small spinules; aperture radiate, terminal at the dorsal angle, produced on a neck. U. Cretaceous (Turonian) to Holocene; cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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