Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Lee, J. S. (1934). Taxonomic criteria of Fusulinidae with notes on seven new Permian genera. <em>Memoirs of the National Research Institute of Geology (Nanjing).</em> 14[1933]: 1-32. page(s): p. 18 [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 globular, or with slightly flattened poles, up to about 3.5 mm in diameter, proloculus followed by ten to thirteen closely coiled whorls, septa straight, unfluted; wall thin in the early whorls, thickening in later ones, with very thin tectum and finely alveolar keriotheca but without tectoria, median tunnel crescentic in the early whorls, later low, elongate, and slitlike, early whorls lack bas1;1lforamina, but these are numerous and regularly spaced in later whorls, chomata absent, parachomatafew (up to three on each side of the tunnel) and rudimentary, not continuous spirally and present only in outer whorls near the tunnel; foramina numerous, circular. L. to U. Permian (L. Artinskian to U. Tatarian); China; Japan; USSR: Caucasus, Fergana; Yugoslavia; USA: Texas; British Honduras; Guatemala; Mexico. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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