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Globoquadrina

Classification

    Phylum:  
Protista
    Subphylum:  
Sarcodina
    Class:  
Reticularea
    Subclass:  
Granuloreticulosia
    Order:  
Foraminiferida
    Suborder:  
Rotalina
    Superfamily:  
Globigerinacea
    Family:  
Globigerinidae
    Subfamily:  
Globigerininae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Globoquadrina FINLAY, 1947, *717e, p. 290
    Type Species:  
Globorotalia dehiscens Chapman, Parr, & COLLINS, 1934, *326, p. 569, OD


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Fig. 539,6. *G. delziseens (CHAPMAN, PARR, & COLLINS), Mia., Australia; 6a-e, opposite sides and edge view of hypotype, X107 (*I64). -- Fig. 539,5. G. altispira (CUSHMAN & JARVIS), Mio., Jamaica; umbilical view of holotype, showing prominent umbilical toothlike projections comprising apertural flaps of final whorl of chambers, X54 (*164)


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Geographic Distribution

Australia-N.Z.-Carib.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Eoc.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Priabonian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
37.71
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Mioi.
    Ending International Stage:  
Messinian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
5.34


Description

Test free, trochospiral, umbilicate, aperture interiomarginal, umbilical, covered above by apertural flap which may vary from narrow rim to elongate toothlike projection, and in openly umbilicate forms earlier apertures remain open into umbilicus. [Globoquadrina differs from Globigerina in having prominent apertural flaps covering each aperture.]




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