Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Cushman, J.A. 1933. Foraminifera, their classification and economic use. Second edition. Revised and enlarged. Cushman Lab. Foram. Res., Special Publ. No. 4: 1-349. page(s): p. 236; note: Patellinoides Heron & Earland, 1932 (validated by Cushman's (1933) designation of a type species). [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]
original description (unavailable nomenclaturally)
Heron-Allen, E.; Earland, A. (1932). Foraminifera: Part I. The ice-free area of the Falkland Islands and adjacent seas. <em>Discovery Reports Vol. IV, Cambridge, University Press.</em> pp. 291-460., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5569623 note: No type designated [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test tiny, low conical, planoconvex, ovate in outline, proloculus and undivided spiral tubular second chamber of one or two volutions followed by chambers biserially arranged around an internal S-shaped columella as in Patellina, all whorls visible from the convex side, only the final pair of chambers visible from the flattened umbilical side, lacking the secondary partitions of Patellina; wall calcareous, perforate, acting optically as a single crystal of calcite; aperture a small arch near the umbilicus of the flattened side. Holocene; N. and S. Atlantic. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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