Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Andersen, H. V. (1961). Foraminifera of the mudlumps, lower Mississippi River Delta. <em>In: Genesis and Paleontology of the Mississippi River Mudlumps: Louisiana Geol. Survey, Geol. Bull.</em> 35, pt. 2, 208 p. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
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 [request]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test small, about 0.5 mm to 0.6 mm in length, uniserial and rectilinear, early chambers flattened, arched, and chevron shaped, later ones inflated and oval to circular in secton, slightly produced toward the aperture, sutures depressed, early ones like an inverted V, later straight and horizontal; wall calcareous, thin, hyaline, transparent; aperture terminal, radiate. Holocene; S. Atlantic; Pacific; USA: Louisiana. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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