Foraminifera taxon details
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Diagnosis Test ovate in outline, flattened, trochospiral, one margin of the truncate periphery carinate, about two rapidly enlarging whorls, the final one with about six crescentic to semicircular chambers, spiral side slightly convex, umbilical side flat to concave, radially aligned infoldings of the wall on the spiral side partially subdivide the later chambers perpendicular to the septum and outer wall, the pseudoseptula increasing in number in later chambers; wall calcareous, optically radial, coarsely perforate; aperture a short equatorial areal opening bordered by a thickened lip, secondary opening at the inner chamber margin on the umbilical side. Pliocene to Holocene; Australia; S. Pacific: Torres Straits, at about 71 m. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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