Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Brady, H. B. (1873). In Etheridge, R.: Explanation of sheet 23: Lanarkshire: Central districts (lists of fossils by R Etheridge). <em>Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain (Scotland) (Sheet).</em> 1-114., available online at http://pubs.bgs.ac.uk/publications.html?pubID=B01875 page(s): p. 94 [details]
original description
(of Moellerina Eimer & Fickert, 1899 †) Eimer, G. H. T.; Fickert, C. (1899). Die Artbildung und Verwandtschaft bei den Foraminiferen. Entwurf einer natürlichen Eintheilung derselben. <em>Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 65: 599-708., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43249091 page(s): p. 677 [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 free, large, early stage biserial, later uniserial, chambers enlarging gradually, broad, low, somewhat inflated; wall calcareous, two layered, with inner radially fibrous layer and outer microgranular layer that may include some foreign particles; aperture in the early stage at the base of the last chamber, later becoming areal, multiple, and cribrate, with numerous openings in the adult, that may be bordered internally by downward projecting pillarlike siphons. L. Carboniferous to Permian; cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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