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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Globigerina spiralis Bolli 1957

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Globigerina spiralis

Citation: Globigerina spiralis Bolli 1957
taxonomic rank: Species
Type specimens: Holotype (USNM P5030) from west side of railway track, south of the Pointe-a-Pierre railway station, about 500 feet from the level crossing of Station Road, Pointe-a-Pierre, Trinidad (coordinates N: 259200 links; E:362900 links), sample KR 23575 (TLL 178894).
Type locality: Globorotalia uncinata Zone, Lower Lizard Springs Formation, Trinidad
Type repository: Washington; USNM

Linked specimens: USNM-5030

Current identification/main database link: Eoglobigerina spiralis (Bolli 1957)


Original Description

Shape of test medium to high trochospiral, biconvex, spiral side distinctly convex, umbilical side less so; equatorial periphery lobate; axial periphery rounded. Wall calcareous, perforate, surface smooth. Chambers inflated, globular or slightly compressed laterally; about 15, arranged in 3 whorls; the 5-6 chambers of the last whorl increase moderately in size. Sutures on spiral side radial or slightly curved, depressed; on umbilical side radial, depressed. Umbilicus narrow, open. Apertures distinct arches with faint lips, interiomarginal, umbilical; that of last chamber in some specimens tend to an extraumbilical-umbilical position. Coiling random.

Size:
Largest diameter of holotype 0.28 mm.

Extra details from original publication
Glohorotalia uncinata zone, Lizard Springs formation.

References:

Bolli, H. M. (1957d). The genera Globigerina and Globorotalia in the Paleocene-Lower Eocene Lizard Springs Formation of Trinidad. In, Loeblich, A. R. , Jr., Tappan, H., Beckmann, J. P., Bolli, H. M., Montanaro Gallitelli, E. & Troelsen, J. C. (eds) Studies in Foraminifera. U.S. National Museum Bulletin . 215: 61-82. gs

Olsson, R. K., Hemleben, C., Berggren, W. A. & Huber, B. T. (1999). Atlas of Paleocene Planktonic Foraminifera. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC. 1-252. gs


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