Diagnosis
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Test elongate, uniserial, rectilinear to slightly arcuate, chambers numerous, increasing slowly in size as added; wall thick, coarsely agglutinated, commonly of calcareous particles; aperture terminal, semicircular in the early stage, later with a distinct tooth projecting from the flattened margin of the aperture, which always represents the outer curve of the test. Holocene; Atlantic; Caribbean; ?N. Pacific: Philippines. (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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