Deep-Sea taxon details
original description
Hoffmeister, W. S., and C. T. Berry, 1937, A new genus of foraminifera from the Miocene of Venezuela and Trinidad, Journal of Paleontology 11: 29-30. page(s): p. 29 [details]
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 
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test small, tapering, biserial throughout, chambers broad and low, enlarging gradually as added, lower margin abruptly angled, overhanging the slightly oblique and depressed sutures; wall calcareous, optically granular, finely perforate, somewhat larger pores near the basal margin of the chambers, surface smooth but with pustulose to spinulate lower margin; aperture an asymmetrical hooklike to comma-shaped opening. Miocene; Venezuela; Trinidad; USA: California. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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