original description
Ehrenberg, C. G. (1838). Über dem blossen Auge unsichtbare Kalkthierchen und Kieselthierchen als Hauptbestandtheile der Kreidegebirge. <em>Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.</em> 1838: 192-200., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11050066
page(s): p. 200; note: Family "Nodosarina" [details]
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]
additional source
Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1987). Foraminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. 970pp., available online at https://books.google.pt/books?id=n_BqCQAAQBAJ [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test free, multilocular, or rarely single chambered, chambers uniserial or less commonly biserial in part, arcuate to rectilinear; wall calcareous, hyaline, finely perforate, monolamellar or orthomonolamellar; aperture terminal, commonly radiate or may be rounded, slitlike, or multiple. U. Triassic to Holocene. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]