Nomenclature
original description
Schwager, C. (1877). Quadro del proposto sistema di classificazione dei foraminiferi con guscio. <em>Bolletino R. Comitato Geologico d'Italia.</em> 8: 18-27., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53535675 [details]
basis of record
Patterson, D. (2001). Platypus checklist of Protoctista [details]
Other
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test free or attached, trochospiral, at least in early stage, later may be uncoiled and rectilinear or biserial or may have many chambers per whorl or chambers added irregularly; wall of perforate hyaline calcite, commonly optically radial in structure, with c-axes perpendicular to the surface, although others have intermediate structure, with crystal axes of inner and outer wall layers radially arranged but those of median layer somewhat oblique; wall coarsely perforate, apertural face may be imperforate; aperture interiomarginal and extraumbilical-umbilical to nearly equatorial, subterminal in uncoiled forms, additional equatorial or umbilical apertures may be prese t at the opposite edge of the chamber. L. Cretaceous (Berriasian) to Holocene. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]