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Globigerina
Classification
Phylum:
Protista
Subphylum:
Sarcodina
Class:
Reticularea
Subclass:
Granuloreticulosia
Order:
Foraminiferida
Suborder:
Rotalina
Superfamily:
Globigerinacea
Family:
Globigerinidae
Subfamily:
Globigerininae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Globigerina D'ORBIGNY, 1826, *1391, p. 277
Type Species:
G. bulloides, SD Parker, Jones, & BRADY, 1865, *1419, p. 36
Images
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Fig. 536,1. *G. bulloides, Rec., Adriatic Sea (Porto Corsini, Italy), 1a-c, opposite sides and edge view of hypotype, X87 (*164).
Synonyms
Globigenera
Geographic Distribution
cosmop
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Paleoc.
Beginning International Stage:
Danian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
66.04
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Rec.
Ending International Stage:
Meghalayan
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
0
Description
Test free, trochospiral, chambers spherical to ovate, wall calcareous, perforate, radial in structure, surface may be smooth, pitted, cancellated, hispid or spinose, aperture interiomarginal, umbilical, with tendency in some species to extend to slightly extraumbilical position, previous apertures remaining open into umbilicus.
References
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Protista
Subphylum:
Sarcodina
Class:
Reticularea
Subclass:
Granuloreticulosia
Order:
Foraminiferida
Suborder:
Rotalina
Superfamily:
Globigerinacea
Family:
Globigerinidae
Subfamily:
Globigerininae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Globigerina D'ORBIGNY, 1826, *1391, p. 277
Type Species:
G. bulloides, SD Parker, Jones, & BRADY, 1865, *1419, p. 36
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 536,1. *G. bulloides, Rec., Adriatic Sea (Porto Corsini, Italy), 1a-c, opposite sides and edge view of hypotype, X87 (*164).
Synonyms
Globigenera
Geographic Distribution
cosmop
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Paleoc.
Beginning International Stage:
Danian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
66.04
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Rec.
Ending International Stage:
Meghalayan
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
0
Description
Test free, trochospiral, chambers spherical to ovate, wall calcareous, perforate, radial in structure, surface may be smooth, pitted, cancellated, hispid or spinose, aperture interiomarginal, umbilical, with tendency in some species to extend to slightly extraumbilical position, previous apertures remaining open into umbilicus.