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  1. kelp, diatoms, and allies
  2. ›Foraminifers
  3. ›Globothalamea
  4. ›Rotaliana
  5. ›Rotaliida
  6. ›Discorboidea
  7. ›Discorbidae
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Discorbis

Discorbis is a genus of benthic Foraminifera (Kingdom Protista in paleontological classifications), that made its first appearance during the Eocene. Its present distribution is cosmopolitan.

Discorbis produces a smooth plano-convex to unequally biconvex trochospiral test (shell) with a flattened umbilical side, taking up about two and a half whorls, with seven to ten chambers in the final whorl. The test wall is calcareous, thin, optically radial, and finely to coarsely perforate. Sutures are depressed and curved to nearly radial.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 481444.