Sigmoilinita

Sigmoilinita
Temporal range: Miocene - Recent
Scientific classification
(unranked): SAR
(unranked): Rhizaria
Phylum: Foraminifera
Order: Miliolida
Superfamily: Miliolacea
Family: Hauerinidae
Genus: Sigmoilinita
Seiglie, 1965

Sigmoilinita is a miliolid genus (Foraminifera, Protista) with an ovate to fusuform test that becomes flattened with growth. Chambers are tubular, one-half coil in length, at first added in a sigmoiline (S-shaped) series starting at slightly more than 180° apart. the angle gradually decreasing until the later whorls are planispiral. Chambers are numerous, the wall narrow. imperforate, porcelaneous. The aperture at the end of the final chamber. may have a weakly developed tooth

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