Foraminifera taxon details
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Diagnosis Test subconical, microspheric early stage may be planispiral and later stage biserial, regularly enlarging globular chambers proliferate in the later stage in a plane perpendicular to the earlier plane of growth, forming an open cone only partially joined by a bridgelike coverplate, sutures depressed; wall calcareous, hyaline, surface with longitudinal irregular to discontinuous imperforate costae, alternating with distinctly perforate areas of the wall, coverplate over the apertures with much finer perforations; aperture consists of broad arched interiomarginal openings directed toward the umbilicus on all chambers in the final whorl, apertures may be partially covered by the bridge like cover plate that extends from one apertural face to another in the same series of chambers, each coverplate bordered by large infralaminal accessory apertures. U. Cretaceous (Maastrichtian); cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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