Diagnosis
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Test small, elongate, proloculus followed by chambers one-half coil in length, quinqueloculine, later chambers added on opposite sides in a single plane, resembling Massilina, and finally uncoiled and rectilinear, uniserial chambers may be pyriform in shape and angular in section; wall calcareous, imperforate, porcelaneous; aperture rounded, at a slight inflation of the narrowed end of the final chamber. Holocene; off Northeast Venezuela. (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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