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Original Description
Description: Medium sized test, very high trochospiral; equatorial periphery lobate; axial periphery rounded, five subglobular to ovate chambers in the last whorl, moderetaly increasing in size as added; the early two whorls are composed of small globular chambers and representing a high trochospire at the center of the spiral view; sutures depressed and radial on both sides; umbilicus wide and shallow; wall calcareous perforate; surface with coarse pustules (muricate); aperture interiomarginal to extraumbilical with arch.
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Extra details from original publication
The raised early worls on the spiral side of the test and the coarse pustules on the surface differentiate this species from any other Muricoglobigerina species. This species is assigned to the genus Muricoglobigerina for its high trochospiral side and the muricate wall surface.
Hewaidy, A. A. & Al-Hitmi, H. (1994). Cretaceous–Early Eocene foraminifera from Dukhan Oil Field, West Qatar, Arabian Gulf. MERC Ain Shams Univ Earth Sci. 8: 1-24. gsReferences:

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