Nomenclature
original description
González-Donoso, J. M.; Linares, D. (1970). Datos sobre los foraminiferos del Tortonense de Alcala Ia Real (Jaen). <em>Revista Española de Micropaleontología.</em> 2: 235-242.
page(s): p. 238 [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]
Other
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test compressed, low trochospiral, all whorls visible on the flat spiral side although the coiling is partially involute, final whorl with eight to twelve chambers, chambers broad, low, and strongly arched, curving back at the periphery on both sides, weakly convex umbilical side involute and umbonate, sutures strongly curved, limbate, elevated, periphery carinate; wall calcareous, optically radial, spiral side coarsely perforate; aperture interiomarginal, a small equatorial arch with a slight lip that may extend somewhat onto the spiral side. Miocene to Holocene; cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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