Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Galloway, J. J. (1933). A manual of Foraminifera. <em>Bloomington, Principia Press.</em> , available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822014134829 page(s): p. 286 [details]
original description
(of Epistomella Cushman, 1928) Cushman, J. A. (1928). Additional genera of foraminfera. Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research. <em>Contributions.</em> 4(1): 1-8., available online at https://cushmanfoundation.allenpress.com/Portals/_default/files/pubarchive/cclfr/4cclfr1.pdf page(s): p. 6 [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 in a low trochospiral coil, moderately biconvex, about two whorls of relatively broad and low chambers visible on the spiral side, increasing in relative height as added, sutures gently curved, depressed, only the subtriangular chambers of the final whorl visible on the umbilical side, interior of chambers with curved partitions that form secondary sutures at the contact with the outer wall on the umbilical side, one series of such sutures paralleling the periphery a short distance nearer the umbilicus, and another series crossing the apertural face a short distance above the base, intercameral sutures nearly straight, radial, and depressed, periphery rounded, peripheral outline entire; wall calcareous, perforate, surface smooth; primary aperture a low interiomarginal slit extending from the periphery nearly to the umbilicus, supplementary sutural openings on both spiral and umbilical sides and additional supplementary openings at the contact of the internal partitions with the outer wall, both in the apertural face and paralleling the peripheral margin. M. Eocene (Lutetian); France; USSR: Ukraine. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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