WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1826). Tableau méthodique de la classe des Céphalopodes. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles.</em> vol. 7: 96-169, 245-314., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5753959 page(s): p. 260 [details]
original description
(of Valvopavonina Hofker, 1951) Hofker, J. (1951). The Foraminifera of the Siboga Expedition. Part 3. <em>Siboga Expeditie, monograph.</em> 4: 1-513. page(s): p. 35 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Diagnosis Test broadly palmate, flattened, with reduced triserial stage of only three chambers, then biserial, with rapidly broadening chambers, and finally uniserial, with very broad, low, and semicircular chambers increasing rapidly in breadth and strongly curved proximally at the margins, periphery bluntly rounded to truncate and bicarinate on the apertural face, sutures strongly arched, depressed; wall calcareous, optically radial, coarsely perforate, surface smooth to pustulose; aperture not apparent on well-preserved specimens except for coarse perforations on the apertural face like those of the remainder of the test, larger intercameral foramina formed by resorption as new chamber is added. Miocene to Holocene; Atlantic; Pacific; Africa; Madagascar; North America. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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