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WoRMS taxon details
original description
Hohenegger, J.; Piller, W. (1975). Wandstrukturen und Grossgliederung der Foraminiferen. <em>Sitzungberichten der österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klasse.</em> Abteilung 1, 184: 67-96., available online at http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/SBAWW_184_0067-0096.pdf page(s): p. 88 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Coiling planispiral to high trochospiral, proloculus followed by enrolled tubular undivided chamber or with few chambers per whorl, chambers may be secondarily subdivided; wall of calcite, optically a single crystal or few to a mosaic of crystals; a-axis preferred orientation along axis of coiling and c-axis parallel to umbilical surface (Patellina); may have pseudopores or micropores filled with organic matter and closed by sieve plates, wall formed by marginal accretion, not by calcification of an organic template produced by pseudopodia. U. Triassic, to Holocene. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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