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Description of Komokiidae

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The test is tree- or bush-like in shape or forms a tangled clump. Tubules stiff to flexible, basically cylindrical in form, infrequently constricted, and with the distance between branching points gnerally much longer than the diameter.
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Diagnosis

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Test bushy or arborescent, constructed of widely spaced branching cylindrical tubules that may be of equal diameter throughout or have clublike terminations, commonly nonseptate, although a few may have variably spaced septa. Holocene. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification)

Reference

Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1987). Foraminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. 970pp.

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