Parkeria

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Parkeria \Par*ke"ri*a\, prop. n. [NL. So named from W. K.
     Parker, a British zoologist.] (Zool.)
     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]