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Reproduction

As with modern foraminifera, strategies of reproduction involved alternating sexual (gamont) and asexual (agamont) generations, resulting in a population consisting of two distinct size groups (dimorphism).

Asexual reproduction resulted in forms having a small initial chamber (proloculus), while sexual reproduction resulted in a large (megalospheric) proloculus.

The sexually produced A-form generation produced fewer chambers and is smaller than the asexual, B-form, generation.

Dispersal

Free-swimming gametes leave the shell of asexually produced adults.