Semirosalina

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Semirosalina
Temporal range: Lower/Early Miocene
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Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Sar
Clade: Rhizaria
Phylum: Retaria
Subphylum: Foraminifera
Class: Globothalamea
Order: Rotaliida
Family: Rosalinidae
Genus: Semirosalina
Hornibrook. 1961

Semirosalina is a genus of foraminifera from the Lower Miocene of New Zealand, related to Rosalina , included in discorboidean family Rosalinidae. The test is a small trochospiral coil of few whorls with a few subglobular chambers per whorl. The test wall is thin and finely perforate. The aperture at the umbilical margin of the apertural face.

Semirosalina differs from Rosalina in being smaller in size, having fewer chambers, and an inflated rather than a flattened test.

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