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Rotalipora

Classification

    Phylum:  
Protista
    Subphylum:  
Sarcodina
    Class:  
Reticularea
    Subclass:  
Granuloreticulosia
    Order:  
Foraminiferida
    Suborder:  
Rotalina
    Superfamily:  
Globigerinacea
    Family:  
Rotaliporidae
    Subfamily:  
Rotaliporinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Rotalipora BROTZEN, 1942, *240, p. 32
    Type Species:  
R. turonica, = Globorotalia cushmani MORROW, 1934, *1319, p. 199, OD


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Fig. 528,1,2. *R. cushmani (MORROW); 1a-c, spiral, umbilical, and edge views, topotype of form described as R. turonica BROTZEN, Cenoman., ?Turon., Ger.-Pol. (Pomerania) ; 2a-c, spiral, umbilical, and edge views of topotype of R. ellSh- malli (MORROW), Cenoman., USA(Kans.), X63 (*1183). -- Fig. 528,3,4. R. greenhornwsis (MORROW); 3a-c, Cenoman., N.Afr.(Algeria); opposite sides and edge view of topotype of Thalmanninella brotzelli SIGAL, X75; 4a-c, Cenoman., USA(Kans.), opposite sides and edge view of topotype, X60 (°1183)


Synonyms

Thalmanninella


Geographic Distribution

cosmop.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Cret.(Cenoman.-?Turon.)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Cenomanian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
100.5
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Cret.(Cenoman.-?Turon.)
    Ending International Stage:  
Turonian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
89.39


Description

Test free, trochospiral, biconvex to planoconvex, umbilicate, periphery angular, with single keel, chambers angular-rhomboid, sutures curved on spiral side, depressed to elevated, and may be thickened or beaded, on umbilical side radial to slightly curved, flush to depressed, wall calcareous, perforate, radial in structure, surface smooth to nodose; primary aperture interiomarginal and extraumbilical-umbilical in position with bordering lip, single secondary sutural aperture per suture on umbilical side, or rarely 2 or more per suture, commonly also with bordering lip or thickened rim. [BOLLI, LOEBLICH & TAPPAN (1957, *164) included with this genus both the typically keeled species and the nonkeeled forms described as Ticinella by REICHEL (1950, °1522). The latter is here recognized as a distinct genus, characterized by the absence of a keel or poreless margin.]




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