Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Thalmann, H. E., 1937, Palaeontological abstracts no 1349. Palmer, Dorothy K.: "New genera and species of Cuban Oligocene Foraminifera," Mem. Soc. Cubana Hist. Nat., 10, 123-128, 1 text-fig., pl. 5, Habana 1936, Geologisches Zentralblatt, Abteilung B, Palaeontologie (1937-1938) 10:351. page(s): p. 351 [details]
original description
(of Antillesina Galloway & Heminway, 1941 †) Galloway, J. J.; Heminway, C. E. (1941). The Tertiary foraminifera of Porto Rico. <em>New York Academy of Science, Scientific survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands.</em> 3(4): 275-491., available online at https://archive.org/details/ach8265.0003.004.umich.edu [details] Available for editors [request]
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 planispiral and involute, chambers inflated, few per whorl, enlarging rapidly, sutures radial, nearly straight, slightly depressed, periphery broadly rounded, peripheral outline lobulate; wall calcareous, finely perforate, surface with low parallel costae spiralling about the test; aperture multiple, consisting of numerous small openings at the base of the apertural face between the costae. Eocene to Oligocene; Cuba; Puerto Rico; Egypt. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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