Diagnosis
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Test attached and burrowing in the tests of other foraminifers, irregular inflated chambers 2 µm to 8 µm in diameter, with stolon-like connections that may branch; resorption of the calcite of the host shell leaves the very thin proteinaceous wall of the parasitic Thalamophaga lining the excavation. Eocene; France. Holocene; Atlantic. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification)
Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1987). Foraminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. 970pp.
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