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Linked specimens: USNM-626326 USNM-626327 USNM-626325
Current identification/main database link: Paraticinella rohri Bolli 1959
Original Description
Shape of test low trochospiral, equatorial periphery slightly lobate, axial periphery rounded. Wall calcareous, finely compressed on the anterior and posterior ends; twenty to twenty-five chambers, arranged in three whorls; the seven to nine chambers of the last whorl increase moderately in size. Sutures radial, depressed on spiral and umbilical side. Umbilicus fairly narrow, deep. Aperture a long, medium to low arch with a rim above, interiomarginal, umbilical-extraumbilical. Coiling, ratio of dextral to sinistral coiling approximately 2:1.
Ando, A., Huber, B. T. & Premoli Silva, I. (2013). Paraticinella rohri (Bolli, 1959) as the valid name for the latest Aptian zonal marker species of planktonic foraminifera traditionally called bejaouaensis or eubejaouaensis. Cretaceous Research. 45: 275-287. gs Bolli, H. M. (1959c). Planktonic foraminifera from the Cretaceous of Trinidad, B. W. I. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 39(179): 253-277. gsReferences:
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Praeglobotruncana rohri compiled by the pforams@mikrotax project team viewed: 22-1-2021
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