Description of Hormosinidae
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Test free, elongate, chambers arranged in rectilinear to arcuate series, each succeeding chamber attached near the base of the apertural neck of the preceding chamber; aperture terminal, rounded, produced on a slight neck; wall thin of a single layer of agglutinated grains of quartz, mica, sponge spicules, or foraminiferal tests held in a minimum of organic cement; 15 Recent genera, ex. Reophax.
