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Linked specimens: USNM-4334
Current identification/main database link: Globigerinatheka mexicana (Cushman 1925)
Original Description
"Test subglobular, early chambers spirally arranged, in the later development the last-formed chamber making up nearly half the surface of the test; chambers distinct, inflated; sutures distinct, somewhat depressed; wall fairly thick, generally reticulate; surface dull; aperture at the inner margin of the chamber with additional small openings at its periphery.
Size: diameter 0.40-0.60 mm.
Extra details from original publication
This species is nearest related to Globigerina conglobata H.B. Brady, but is more spherical, the chambers being very different in their arrangement, and the surface much more smooth than in that species."
Cushman, J. A. (1925d). New foraminifera from the Upper Eocene of Mexico. Contributions from the Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research. 1(1): 4-9. gs V O Premoli Silva, I., Wade, B. S. & Pearson, P. N. (2006). Taxonomy, biostratigraphy, and phylogeny of Globigerinatheka and Orbulinoides. In, Pearson, P. N., Olsson, R. K., Hemleben, C., Huber, B. T. & Berggren, W. A. (eds) Atlas of Eocene Planktonic Foraminifera. Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, Special Publication. 41(Chap 7): 169-212. gs V OReferences:
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