Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Reuss, A. E. (1866). Die Foraminiferen und Ostracoden der Kreide am Kanara-See bei Küstendsche. <em>Sitzungsberichte der mathematisch-naturwissenschaflichen Classe der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften.</em> 52 (1): 445-470., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6447620 page(s): p. 448 [details] 
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Diagnosis Test free, early stage triserial and roughly triangular in section, later chambers biserially arranged and test quadrangular in section, test angles marked by prominent ridges that may become fistulose, one ridge of the triangular part bifurcating, so that the adult biserial stage has four longitudinal ridges and may have additional supplementary longitudinal ridges; wall agglutinated, with considerable cement; aperture an interiomarginal arch in the early stage, later terminal, rounded, and may have a short neck. U. Cretaceous (Santonian to Campanian); Europe; North America. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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