Diagnosis
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Test elongate, ovate, 0.28 mm to 0.92 mm in length, commonly occurring in empty tests of other foraminifers; wall proteinaceous, single layered, containing numerous platelike or elongate secreted bodies and some foreign particles; aperture at one end of the test, rarely with a second aperture at the opposite end; one to three globular nuclei. Marine. Holocene; North Sea; N. Atlantic. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification)
Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1987). Foraminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. 970pp.
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