Diagnosis
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Test elongate, stout, early trochospiral stage with four or more chambers per whorl, later reduced to biserial, chambers partly subdivided internally by vertical radial partitions that project inward from the outer wall; wall agglutinated, noncanaliculate; aperture a vertical slit or loop extending upward from the base of the final chamber. L. Miocene to Holocene; New Zealand; Andaman Sea, Car Nicobar; Pacific Ocean, off Fiji. (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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