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parkeria
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parkeria, prop. n. [NL. So named from W. K. Parker , a British zoologist.].
A genus of large arenaceous fossil Foraminifera found in the Cretaceous rocks. The species are globular, or nearly so, and are of all sizes up to that of a tennis ball. [1913 Webster]
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