Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Pfender, J. (1935). A propos du Siderolites Vidali Douvillé et de quelques autres. <em>Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, cinquième série.</em> 4: 225-236. page(s): p. 230 [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 lenticular or may have slightly compressed peripheral region, protoconch and slightly smaller deuteroconch surrounded by a common wall with encircling canal, later chambers in about two to three planispiral whorls, eight chambers in the first whorl increasing to about thirty in later whorls, septa expanding to an inflated hollow end adjacent to the aperture, sutures radial, straight, elevated throughout length or may be broken into surface pustules; large intraseptal canal present, thick inner part of spiral wall pierced by numerous radial canals and contains vacuoles separating it from a thin outer wall layer, an internal spiralling canal of triangular section and bounded by a distinct wall with minute perforations lies at the outer margin of the chambers toward the test periphery; wall calcareous, surface of umbo with numerous elevated pustules and radial rows of small pustules between the elevated sutures; aperture and intercameral foramina interiomarginal beneath the thickened end of the apertural face or septa at the surface of the preceding whorl. Paleocene; Pakistan; Qatar; Saudi Arabia; Somalia; Nicaragua. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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