Catalog - Globigerina apertura

CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Globigerina apertura Cushman 1918

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Globigerina apertura

Citation: Globigerina apertura Cushman 1918

Rank: species

Type locality: Suffolk, Virginia, U. S. A.

Type age: Miocene. Yorktown formation.

Holotype Repository: Washington USNM

Type & figured specimens: pl. 12, fig. 8, X 6o. Fig. 8a, dorsal view; b, side view; c, ventral view.

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. Diameter, 0.50 millimeter. This species may be distinguished by its extremely large semicircular aperture, compressed test, and few chambers."

Size: Diameter, 0.50 millimeter.

References:

Cushman, J. A. (1918b). Miocene foraminifera of the coastal plain of the United States. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin. 676: 39-73. gs

Globigerina apertura compiled by the pforams@mikrotax project team viewed: 27-2-2020

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