Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Darmoian, S. A. (1976). Nezzazatinella adhami a new genus and species of imperforate Foraminifera from the Pre-Coniacian of Southeastern Iraq. <em>Maritime Sediments Spec. Pub. 1 (First Int. Symp. on Benthonic Foraminifera of Continental Margins).</em> 523-528. page(s): p. 524 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Diagnosis Test a low trochospiral, planoconvex, with flattened spiral side, the final whorl with ten to fourteen narrow, elongate chambers and curved sutures, final chambers flaring as if tending to uncoil, opposite side convex and involute, the chambers strongly angled between the flattened apertural face and the pseudoumbilicus, sutures nearly radial, sinuate; wall calcareous, granular, imperforate; aperture a large curved slit extending from the umbilical region up the apertural face and bending sharply toward the umbilical side, may be accompanied by secondary aperture of pores, either in a curved row or scattered over the apertural face. L. Cretaceous (Barremian) to U. Cretaceous (U. Turonian); Iraq; Romania; France. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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