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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Globigerina falconensis Blow 1959

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Globigerina falconensis

Citation: Globigerina falconensis Blow 1959
taxonomic rank: species
Type specimens: 625697; paratype, 625698
Type sample (& lithostrat): sample, No. RM 19285, auger line near Pozon, eastern Falcon; Plate 9, figures 40a-c
Type locality: near Pozon, eastern Falcon, Venezuela
Type repository: Washington; USNM

Linked specimens: USNM-625697 USNM-625698 USNM-625698

Current identification/main database link: Globigerina falconensis Blow, 1959


Original Description

Test low trochospiral with 10-12 chambers arranged in about 1½ whorls and with 4 chambers m the last whorl; chambers subspherical, slightly embracing, especially the last, increasing regularly and rather slowly in size as added; equatorial periphery lobate; axial periphery rounded; sutures of the spiral and umbilical sides radial, depressed but not much incised; umbilicus small but deep, sometimes almost closed by the strongly developed lip of the last chamber; aperture an elongate low arch or sometimes rather slitlike with a well-developed lip, interiomarginal, umbilical; wall calcareous, rather coarsely perforate.

Size:
Maximum diameter or holotype, 0.34 mm.

Extra details from original publication
Remarks: This species is distinguished from Globigerina foliata Bolli in having slightly embracing chambers and an elongate aperture with a well-developed apertural lip.

Occurrence: Ranges from the Globigerinatella insueta/Globigerinoides bispherica Subzone to the Globigerina bulloides Zone, Tocuyo and Pozon formations.

References:

Blow, W. H. (1959). Age, correlation, and biostratigraphy of the upper Tocuyo (San Lorenzo) and Pozon Formations, eastern Falcon, Venezuela. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 39(178): 67-251. gs


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