Foraminifera taxon details
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Diagnosis Test a simple or less commonly a dichotomously branched straight or zigzag tubule, nonseptate but may show growth constrictions, giving rise to numerous short simple side branches that may be only beadlike lobes and between which the central stalk is readily visible, no sediment present in the interstices between branches; flexible and elastic wall with thin inner organic layer and outer agglutinated layer of clay particles. Holocene; N. Pacific, at 2,340 m to 6,079 m; equatorial Pacific, at 3,570 m; E. Atlantic, at 4,706 m to 5,300 m; equatorial Atlantic, at 2,550 m; Caribbean, at 5,650 m to 8,150 m; W. Indian Ocean, at 4,900 m. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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