Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Bertram, H.; Kemper, E. (1982). Die Foraminiferen des späten Apt und frühen Alb Nordwestdeutschlands. <em>Geologisches Jahrbuch.</em> A65: 481-497. page(s): p. 488 [details]
basis of record
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 small, to about 0.6 mm in length, elongate, early trochospiral stage with three chambers in a whorl and three to six total, later stage of four to five inflated uncoiled chambers, septa straight, constricted; wall aragonitic, optically and ultrastructurally radial, surface covered with small pustules; aperture terminal and slightly eccentric in the uncoiled stage, produced on a short tubular neck and provided with a toothplate that bisects the opening and connects within to the aperture of the previous chamber. L. Cretaceous (U. Aptian to L. Albian); Germany. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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