Welcome to the Forams subsite on Invertebrate Paleontology!
Please enter a genera name to retrieve more information.
Globigerapsis
Classification
Phylum:
Protista
Subphylum:
Sarcodina
Class:
Reticularea
Subclass:
Granuloreticulosia
Order:
Foraminiferida
Suborder:
Rotalina
Superfamily:
Globigerinacea
Family:
Globigerinidae
Subfamily:
Orbulininae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Globigerapsis Bolli, Loeblich & TAPPAN, 1957, p. 33
Type Species:
G. kugleri, OD
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 541,8. *G. kugleri, W. Indies (Trinidad); 8a-c,, opposite sides and edge view of holotype, showing early trochospiral stage and later embracing chamber with sutural openings, X72 (*164).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Carib.-N.Am.-S.Am.-Eu.-N.Z.-Japan
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Eoc.
Beginning International Stage:
Ypresian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
56
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Eoc.
Ending International Stage:
Priabonian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
33.9
Description
Test free, subglobular, early portion trochospiral, with subglobular chambers, final chamber embracing and covering umbilical region of early coil, primary aperture interiomarginal, umbilical in young stage, covered in adult by enveloping final chamber, with 2 or more arched sutural secondary apertures at lower margin of final chamber, at contact with sutures of earlier whorl.
References
$\qquad$ Loeblich, A. R., Jr., \& Tappan, Helen, 1957, Planktonic foraminiferal families Hantkeninidae, Orbulinidae, Globorotaliidae, and Globotruncanidae: U.S. Natl. Museum, Bull. 215, p. 3-50, pl. 1-11, text-fig. 1-9.
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Protista
Subphylum:
Sarcodina
Class:
Reticularea
Subclass:
Granuloreticulosia
Order:
Foraminiferida
Suborder:
Rotalina
Superfamily:
Globigerinacea
Family:
Globigerinidae
Subfamily:
Orbulininae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Globigerapsis Bolli, Loeblich & TAPPAN, 1957, p. 33
Type Species:
G. kugleri, OD
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 541,8. *G. kugleri, W. Indies (Trinidad); 8a-c,, opposite sides and edge view of holotype, showing early trochospiral stage and later embracing chamber with sutural openings, X72 (*164).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Carib.-N.Am.-S.Am.-Eu.-N.Z.-Japan
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Eoc.
Beginning International Stage:
Ypresian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
56
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Eoc.
Ending International Stage:
Priabonian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
33.9
Description
Test free, subglobular, early portion trochospiral, with subglobular chambers, final chamber embracing and covering umbilical region of early coil, primary aperture interiomarginal, umbilical in young stage, covered in adult by enveloping final chamber, with 2 or more arched sutural secondary apertures at lower margin of final chamber, at contact with sutures of earlier whorl.
References
$\qquad$ Loeblich, A. R., Jr., \& Tappan, Helen, 1957, Planktonic foraminiferal families Hantkeninidae, Orbulinidae, Globorotaliidae, and Globotruncanidae: U.S. Natl. Museum, Bull. 215, p. 3-50, pl. 1-11, text-fig. 1-9.