Discamminidae Loeblich and Tappan, 1984 ( *1918), p. 9, nom. transl. ex subfamily. Discammininae Mikhalevich. 1980 (*2109), p. 6 ( subfamily).

Test enrolled, early stage planispiral and evolute, later may be uncoiled and rectilin­ear; wall coarsely agglutinated of quartz grains and sponge spicules on an inner organic layer; septa lack agglutinated material but are very thin, straight, wholly organic internal parti­tions: aperture a low interiomarginal equato­rial opening in enrolled stage, becoming terminal and central in the rectilinear stage, seen in section as slightly produced foramina in the septa of earlier chambers. U. Creta­ceous to Holocene.