From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test free, globular, flasklike or elongate; wall agglutinated; aperture terminal, rounded, and in living specimens commonly provided with distinctive organic oral apparatus consisting of inward projecting tube enclosing a gel-like capsule. Ordovician to Holocene. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]