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The Robertinida are an order of Middle Triassic to recent, benthic
foraminifera Foraminifera (; Latin for "hole bearers"; informally called "forams") are single-celled organisms, members of a phylum or class of amoeboid protists characterized by streaming granular Ectoplasm (cell biology), ectoplasm for catching food and ot ...
in which tests are planispirally to trochospirally coiled, with chambers provided with an internal partition and hyaline perforated walls composed of optically radiated
aragonite Aragonite is a carbonate mineral, one of the three most common naturally occurring crystal forms of calcium carbonate, (the other forms being the minerals calcite and vaterite). It is formed by biological and physical processes, including prec ...
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References

* Alfred R. Loeblich Jr and Helen Tappan,1988. Forminiferal Genera and their Classification
Foraminifera-GSI
* Barun K. Sen Gupta 2002. Systematics of modern foraminifera

Foraminifera orders Globothalamea {{foram-stub