Foraminifera taxon details
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Diagnosis Test small, up to 0.2 mm in diameter, globose, trochospiral or possibly streptospiral, with few chambers, rapidly increasing in size and strongly overlapping, sutures slightly depressed; wall calcareous, perforate, optically radial, surface smooth; aperture multiple, of a few large rounded pores bordered by a prominent lip, generally covered by an irregular bullalike structure that has infralaminal openings. Holocene; Caribbean: off Venezuela. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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