Description of Millettiidae
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Buliminacean foraminifera, test elongate, cylindrical, early chambers biserial, later uniserial; aperture terminal, surrounded by a collar and a narrow rim.
Diagnosis
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Early stage biserial, later with a few subcylindrical uniserial chambers subdivided by vertical and horizontal partial partitions into numerous small chamberlets in honeycomblike arrangement; aperture terminal, with phialine lip and internal siphonlike toothplate. Holocene. (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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