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Linked specimens: London, UK; NHM (PM P 48903)
Current identification/main database link: Streptochilus martini (Pijpers 1933)
Original Description
DESCRIPTION. Test flaring, biserial; periphery lobate. Chambers arranged in 5 to 7 pairs, increasing regularly in size; those in the initial part of the test small and compressed, later becoming inflated, subglobular. Sutures oblique, slightly depressed in the early part becoming strongly depressed later. Surface almost smooth to weakly hispid. Aperture a large, semicircular to subcircular opening bordered by a narrow lip-like structure.
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Extra details from original publication
Among the Middle and Upper Eocene representatives of the genus, C. venezuelana (Nuttall) shows some resemblance to C. woodi. However, the latter can be distinguished by its more inflated chambers and larger aperture.
With its inflated subglobular chambers and large semi-circular aperture, C. woodi shows a relationship to C. wilcoxensis (Cushman & Ponton), a Palaeocene to Lower Eocene species from which it may have evolved.
The form from the Upper Eocene of the Mikir Hills, Assam, recorded by the writer (1970b) as Chiloguembelina sp., shares with C. woodi the inflated chambers, depressed sutures, and large subcircular aperture.
DISTRIBUTION. In the Rakhi Nala section, C. woodi is restricted to the Truncorotaloides rohri Zone
Samanta, B. K. (1973). Planktonic foraminifera from the Paleocene-Eocene succession in the Rakhi Nala, Sulaiman Range, Pakistan. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). 22: 421-482. gsReferences:

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