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Globigerinatella

Classification

    Phylum:  
Protista
    Subphylum:  
Sarcodina
    Class:  
Reticularea
    Subclass:  
Granuloreticulosia
    Order:  
Foraminiferida
    Suborder:  
Rotalina
    Superfamily:  
Globigerinacea
    Family:  
Globigerinidae
    Subfamily:  
Catapsydracinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Globigerinatella Cushman & STAINFORTH, 1945, *525, p. 68
    Type Species:  
G. insueta, OD


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Fig. 543,3,4. *G. insueta, L. Mio., W.Indies(Trinidad), 3a,b, spiral and edge views of paratype showing early trochospiral stage, enveloping final chamber, and areal and sutural bullae; 4, dissected topotype showing areal aperture exposed when bulla is partially removed and infralaminal accessory openings at margin of remaining part of the bulla, X93 (*164).


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Geographic Distribution

Carib.-N.Am.-Pac.O.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Mio.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Aquitanian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
23.04
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Mio.
    Ending International Stage:  
Burdigalian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
15.99


Description

Test free, subglobular, early portion trochospiral, final chamber embracing and obscuring interiomarginal, umbilical primary aperture, later chambers with secondary sutural and areal apertures which are surrounded by distinct lips and may be covered by small knobby pustule-like areal bullae and more irregular spreading sutural bullae, all bullae with infralaminal accessory apertures, later chambers with secondary sutural and areal apertures which are surrounded by distinct lips and may be covered by small knobby pustule-like areal bullae and more irregular spreading sutural bullae, all bullae with infralaminal accessory apertures.




References

$\qquad$ , \& Stainforth, R. M., 1945, The Foraminifera of the Cipero marl formation of Trinidad, British West Indies: Cushman Lab. Foram. Research, Spec. Publ., no. 14, p. 1-74, pl. 1-16.-(526) 1947, A new genus and some new species of Foraminifera from the upper Eocene of Ectuador: Same, Contrib., v. 23, pt. 4, p. 77-80, pl. 17.


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