Foraminifera taxon details
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Diagnosis Test free, early stage triserial and triangular as in Valvulina, later with a loose spiral of five or more chambers per whorl and a rounded section; wall agglutinated, thick, both outer wall and septa canaliculate; aperture in early stage interiomarginal as in Valvulina, in the later stage the nearly circular platelike tooth attaches to the opposite wall, with large circular openings along its margin and over the surface of the apertural plate. Holocene; Australia. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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