• Globigerina tripartita tapuriensis Blow and Banner, 1962:97-98, pl. 10, figs. H-K [lower Oligocene G. oligocaenica Zone, Lindi area, Tanzania].
• Globigerina tapuriensis Blow and Banner.—Blow 1969:322, pl. 16, figs. 7, 8 [lower Oligocene Zone P19, Lindi area, Tanzania].—Jenkins and Orr, 1972:1090, pl. 11, figs. 7-9 [lower Oligocene P. barbadoensis Zone, DSDP Hole 77B, eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean].—Blow, 1979:859-861, pl. 16, figs. 7, 8 (reproduced from Blow, 1969, pl. 16, figs. 7, 8), pl. 245, fig. 9 [lower Oligocene Zone P18, DSDP Site 14, central South Atlantic Ocean], pl. 247, fig. 2 [lower Oligocene Zone P19/20, DSDP Site 14, central South Atlantic Ocean].—Leckie and others, 1993:124, pl. 5, fig. 11 [lower Oligocene Zone P18, ODP Hole 803D, Ontong Java Plateau, western equatorial Pacific Ocean], pl. 5, fig. 12 [lower Oligocene Zone P20, ODP Hole 803D, Ontong Java Plateau, western equatorial Pacific Ocean], pl. 5, figs. 13, 15 [lower Oligocene Zone P19, ODP Hole 628A, Little Bahama Bank, western North Atlantic Ocean], pl. 5, fig. 14 [upper Oligocene Zone P22, ODP Hole 628A, Little Bahama Bank, western North Atlantic Ocean], pl. 5, fig. 16 [lower Oligocene Zone P18, ODP Hole 628A, Little Bahama Bank, western North Atlantic Ocean].
• Globoquadrina tripartita tapuriensis (Blow and Banner).—Fleisher, 1974:1025, pl. 10, fig. 4 [lower Oligocene Zone P18/P19, DSDP Site 219, Arabian Sea].
• “Globoquadrina” tapuriensis (Blow and Banner).—Spezzaferri and Premoli Silva, 1991:248, pl. 9, figs. 3a-c [lower Oligocene Subzone P21a, DSDP Hole 538A, Gulf of Mexico].
• Dentoglobigerina tapuriensis (Blow and Banner).—Pearson and Wade, 2015:19, figs. 20.1a-d (SEMs of the holotype of Globigerina tripartita tapuriensis Blow and Banner), fig. 20.2 [lower Oligocene Zone O1, TDP Site 12, Stakishari, Tanzania], figs. 20.3, 20.5, 20.6, 20.8, 20.9 [lower Oligocene Zone O1, TDP Site 17, Stakishari, Tanzania], figs. 20.4a-b [upper Eocene Zone E15/16, TDP Site 12, Stakishari, Tanzania], fig. 20.7 [upper Eocene Zone E15/16, TDP Site 17, Stakishari, Tanzania].
• Globoquadrina tripartita Koch.—Spezzaferri and Premoli Silva, 1991:248, pl. 3, figs. 2a-c.—Spezzaferri, 1994:42, pl. 42, figs. 2a-c (reproduced from Spezzaferri and Premoli Silva, 1991:248, pl. 3, fig. 2a-c). [Not Koch, 1926.]
• Not Globoquadrina tapuriensis (Blow and Banner).—Li and others, 2005:19, pl. 2, fig. 7 (= Dentoglobigerina tripartita).

This species was described by Blow and Banner (1962) from Tanzania. The holotype was illustrated in SEM by Pearson and Wade (2015) for the first time, along with a range of comparable specimens from drill sites in Tanzania. The species is generally quite rare, but has been reliably recorded from the lower Oligocene from all the major ocean basins. [Wade et al. 2018]

Dentoglobigerina tapuriensis is distinguished from its ancestor, D. taci, by its broader, more radially compressed final chamber, and by generally having fewer chambers in the final whorl and a narrower apertural lip. Like D. taci, it seems never to have an umbilical tooth. It is distinguished from its probable descendant, D. sellii, by having more lobate outline and less flattened umbilical face. [Wade et al. 2018]