dcsimg

Diagnosis

provided by World Register of Marine Species
Test free, large, 3 mm in breadth, broken specimens suggesting a total length of up to 25 mm, rounded proloculus followed by elongate tubular, nearly parallel-sided undivided chamber that may be of less diameter than the proloculus; wall agglutinated, compact, and firmly cemented, of quartz grains and commonly with sponge spicules that may protrude into the chamber cavity; aperture terminal, rounded; may be somewhat constricted. Holocene; N. Atlantic, from 835 m to 913 m depth. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification)

Reference

Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1987). Foraminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. 970pp.

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