Meanings
plural siphoninids
- biologyA foraminifer of the family Siphoninoidea.
Accessory benthic foraminiferal events reported by Berggren and Miller (1989) to occur in the late Eocene are the migrations into the bathyal realm from the neritic realm of planulinids and siphoninids.
2003, Donald R. Prothero, From Greenhouse to Icehouse: The Marine Eocene-Oligocene Transition
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