Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Howe, H. V. (1939). Louisiana Cook Mountain Eocene Foraminifera. <em>Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Louisiana.</em> 14: 1-122. page(s): p. 79 [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 trochospirally coiled in two to three whorls of four to five inflated chambers each, sutures depressed, oblique on the spiral side, radial on the umbilical side; wall calcareous, perforate, surface smooth; aperture a curved slit extending up the apertural face from the umbilical margin of the final chamber, proximal border curving inward and the distal border projecting as a broad flap. M. Eocene (Lutetian) to U. Oligocene; North America; USSR: Ukrainian Carpathians, Turkmenia. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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