Catalog - Catapsydrax prahovensis Catalog - Catapsydrax prahovensis

CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Catapsydrax prahovensis Popescu 1969

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Higher levels: pf_cat -> C -> Catapsydrax -> Catapsydrax prahovensis
Other pages this level: C. apenninicus, C. echinatus, C. golicynensis, C. gortanii, C. indianus, C. parvulus, C. prahovensis, C. stainforthi, C. unicavus, C. venzoi

Catapsydrax prahovensis

Citation: Catapsydrax prahovensis Popescu 1969
Taxonomic rank: species
Type specimens: pl. 2. figs. 7-9. X 100: Fig. 7a-c, holotype; : holotype (fig. 7a-c), no. 9143.
Type age (chronostrat): Miocene, upper Tortonian, "Spirialis marls horizon"; and also occurs in the Chechis beds (Helvetian).
Type locality: Pute Rau Valley, Chiojdeanca, Prahova district, South-central Romania.
Type repository: Bucharest; Paleontological Laboratory of the University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania;

Current identification:


Original Description

"Test free, trochospiral; globular chambers increasing gradually in size; deep radial sutures: equatorial periphery lobated, axial one rounded; calcareous, perforated wall, radial in structure, with pitted surface; on the spiral side 2½ whorls consisting of 10-11 chambers are observed; the last whorl contains 4 chambers: umbilicus covered by an elongated or ovoid, more or less inflated apertural bulla. This bulla masks the primary umbilical, interiomarginal aperture which is bordered by a thin lip; on the earlier suture there are many supplementary apertures; numerous infralaminal apertures on the sutures of the apertural bulla. Largest diameter about 0.41 mm.

Size:
Largest diameter about 0.41 mm.

Extra details from original publication
"Remarks. - Catapsydrax prahovensis differs from C. dissimilis by its numerous infralaminal apertures on the sutures of the apertural bulla and by the presence of supplementary apertures on the spiral side. Sometimes besides the infralaminal apertures on the apertural bulla sutures also some arch-like apertures occur resembling to those of Globigerina glutinata." 

References:

Popescu, G. (1969). Some new Globigerina (Foraminifera) from the upper Tortonian of the Transylvanian Basin and the Subcarpathians. Revue Roumaine de Géologie Géophysique et Géographie. 13: 103-106. gs


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