Nomenclature
original description
Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1957). The new planktonic foraminiferal genus Tinophodella and an emendation of Globigerinita Bronnimann. <em>Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.</em> 47: 112-116., available online at https://archive.org/details/biostor-105821
page(s): pp. 113-114 [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
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Taxonomy
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Diagnosis Test small to medium in size, globular to ovate, with low trochospiral coil of few, nearly spherical chambers, about four per whorl, sutures distinct, depressed, in the adult an irregular to digitate bulla covers the umbilicus and extends along the sutures, bulla formed as a separate structure and not a modified or ampullate chamber and not in the normal pattern of chamber growth, periphery rounded, peripheral outline lobulate; wall calcareous, minutely perforate, surface with numerous pustules, those of the bulla of somewhat smaller size; aperture interiomarginal, umbilical in position in the early stage, adult chamber with primary aperture covered by the umbilical sutural bulla that has interiomarginal-infralaminal accessory apertures at the margin, the small openings may be terminal on projections along the sutures or may completely border the bulla. L. Miocene to Holocene; cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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