Nomenclature
original description
Schultze, M. J. S. (1854). Über den Organismus der Polythalamien (Foraminiferen), nebst Bemerkungen über die Rhizopoden im allgemeinen. <em>Ingelmann, Leipzig.</em> 1-68., available online at https://books.google.pt/books?id=o7rk00_xueQC [details]
original description
(of Spirolininae Cushman, 1927) Cushman, J. A. (1927). An outline of a re-classification of the Foraminifera. <em>Contributions from the Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research.</em> 3(1): 1-105., available online at https://cushmanfoundation.allenpress.com/Portals/_default/files/pubarchive/cclfr/3cclfr1.pdf
page(s): p. 54 [details] Available for editors
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basis of record
Gross, O. (2001). Foraminifera, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 60-75 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Other
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test close coiled in the early stage, later may be uncoiled or chambers may become annular, chamber interior simple and not subdivided into chamberlets; wall porcelaneous, proloculus and a few juvenile chambers may be perforate, but adult test wall imperforate; aperture rounded, slitlike, dendritic, or a series of pores. U. Cretaceous (Coniacian) to Holocene. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]