Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1984). Suprageneric Classification of the Foraminiferida (Protozoa). <em>Micropaleontology.</em> 30(1): 1-70., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/1485456 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Mikhalevich, V.I. (2014). Post-Cambrian testate Foraminifera as a System in its evolution. <em>Nova Publishers, New York.</em> 408 p. [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test uniserial in early stage, later bifurcating to produce two or more linear series of chambers; aperture terminal at the ends of the linearseries, commonly a single ovate slit but may have two such openings just prior to bifurcation; wall coarsely agglutinated, thick, pierced by coarse tubuli. U. Cretaceous (Cenomanian) to Holocene. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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