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Turborotalia

Classification

    Phylum:  
Protista
    Subphylum:  
Sarcodina
    Class:  
Reticularea
    Subclass:  
Granuloreticulosia
    Order:  
Foraminiferida
    Suborder:  
Rotalina
    Superfamily:  
Globigerinacea
    Family:  
Globorotaliidae
    Subfamily:  
Globorotaliinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Turborotalia Cushman & BERMÚDEZ, 1949, *497, p. 42
    Type Species:  
Globorotalia centralis Cushman & BERMÚDEZ, 1937, *491, p. 26, OD


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Fossil Image
Fig. 533,6. *T. centralis (Cushman & Bermúdez), Eoc., W.Indies(Cuba), 6a-c, opposite sides and edge view of holotype, X84 (*164).


Synonyms

Globorotalia


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, periphery noncarinate, chambers ovate or rounded, sutures commonly depressed, wall finely perforate, surface smooth to hispid, aperture interiomarginal, extraumbilical-umbilical, with bordering lip. [Differs from Globorotalia in lacking a keel or nonporous peripheral margin.]




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