Foraminifera taxon details
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Diagnosis Test attached, early stage with a few gradually enlarging enrolled chambers, later uncoiled and uniserial, with broad and low chambers in nearly rectilinear arrangement, sutures nearly horizontal but somewhat irregular, peripheral margin lobulate; wall calcareous, coarsely perforate; aperture terminal and multiple, consisting of a row of rounded to ovate openings on slight necklike projections from the terminal face, each bordered by a lip. Miocene; USA: Florida. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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