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Linked specimens: USNM-325323
Current identification/main database link: Globoturborotalita apertura Cushman 1918
Original Description
Test spiral, depressed, all the chambers visible from the dorsal side, the four chambers making the last-formed coil visible from the ventral side, chambers rapidly increasing in size; aperture very large, semicircular, opening into the central umbilical cavity.
Size: Diameter, 0.50 millimeter.
Extra details from original publication
This species may be distinguished by its extremely large semicircular aperture, compressed test, and few chambers.
Cushman, J. A. (1918b). Miocene foraminifera of the coastal plain of the United States. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin. 676: 39-73. gsReferences:
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