CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Globorotalia (Turborotalia) acostaensis tegillata Brönnimann & Resig 1971
This page provides data from the catalog of type descriptions. The catalog is sorted alphabetically. Use the current identification link to go back to the main database.
Original Description The medium-sized test is a flat trochospire consisting of at least 12 subglobular chambers with five chambers in the final whorl. The early chambers increase rapidly,those of the final whorl only gradually and the ultimate chamber is slightly smaller than the penultimate one. The chambers of the final whorl in spiral view are tangentially slightly larger than radially with the exception of the ultimate one which is about equidimensional. The cameral and the spiral sutures are well defined and depressed, and the outline of the test is therefore lobate in spiral and umbilicate views. The early cameral sutures are oblique, whereas those between the chambers of the final whorl are radial. In lateral view the spiral side is virtually flat and the final chambers somewhat displaced ventrally; the umbilical side is faintly concave. The chambers are not compressed in axial direction. In umbilical view, five chambers are visible; the fifth is partially masked by a large tegilla, as shown by the scanning micrograph (Plate 33, Figure 3). The tegilla starts as a strong peripheral lip and, toward the umbilicus, develops into an angular plate covering most of the umbilicus, which is about 120 microns in diameter. The tegillate umbilical coverying is densely but finely pustulate in its central portion. Its maximum diameter is about 100 microns. The corners of the umbilical plate extend into the sutural depressions. They are tangentially-wide end-chamber from Globorotalis tumida tumida (Brady), 1877, and radially directed. The aperture is a low umbilical-extraumbilical arch of about a 15-microns height covered in its umbilical portion by the strong tegilla. The wall is calcareous, perforate, and the surface is pustulate. The scanning micrograph of the umbilical side shows strong, pointed, individual pustules in the vicinity of the umbilicus on the early chambers of the final whorl. On the other portion of the surface, the pustules are fused in their basal portions, blunt, and form polygonal walls around the deeply set poral openings of the 2- to 4-micron diameter. The ventral side of the penultimate chamber exhibits details of the pustular structures. As in the case of Globorotalia (T.) pseudopumilio Brönnimann and Resig, n. sp., and Globorotalia (T.)planespira Brönnimann and Resig, n. sp., here also the pustules are made up of small elements or "crystallites" discernible as clearer points on the darker background of the scanning micrograph.
Size: The maximum diameter of the holotype is about 355 microns. The specimen coils to the right, and is illustrated on Plate 33, Figure 3. It is from Hole 62.1, Core 15, Section 1, 15-17 centimeters, Zone N. 18. Extra details from original publication Globorotalia (T.) acostaensis tegillata, n. subsp., differs from Globorotalia acostaensis acostaensis Blow, 1959,as typified by Blow (1969, pi. 9, fig. 13-15), by the umbilical tegilla which in well-preserved individuals covers not only the axial cavity but may extend into the umbilical sutural depressions. Globorotalia (T.) acostaensis tegillata occurs stratigraphically first in Hole 62.1 at the base of Zone N. 16, whereas typical representatives of Globorotalia (T.)acostaensis acostaensis appear in Hole 62.1 for the first time in the uppermost part of Zone N. 16. The tegillate subspecies is the older form from which the non-tegillate subspecies seems to have evolved by reduction of the tegilla into a thick rim-like lip, as exhibited by the holotype of Globorotalia (T.) acostaensis acostaensis.
The evolutionary sequence from Globorotalia (T.) acostaensis tegillata to Globorotalia acostaensis acostaensis seems to be fairly well-established, as in our material transitional forms are well represented. Parker (1967) has figured a series of the tegillate subspecies as Globoquadrina acostaensis (Blow) on Plate 24, Figures 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8. These figures show the tegilla in extreme modification, masking not only the umbilicus but extending deeply into the radial umbilical sutures. The number of chambers in the final whorl varies in Parker's specimens from 4 to 6. This variation is also found in our paratypes of Globorotalia (T.) acostaensis tegillata. We believe that Parker's (1967) individual illustrated on Plate 24, Figures 10 and 11, referred by her to Globoquadrina humerosa (Takayanagi and Saito), represents Globorotalia (T.)acostaensis tegillata. A questionable individual of the new subspecies seems to be also illustrated by Parker's (1967) Plate 25, Figure 4, also placed by her in Globoquadrina humerosa. It should be noted that the tegilla of Globorotalia (T.)acostaensis tegillata is morphologically an umbilical-sutural extension of the apertural lip and not a development of an isolated tooth-like structure, as in known to occur in Globorotalia (T.) dutertrei and in Globorotalia (T.) acostaensis humerosa as shown by the scanning micrograph Plate 33, Figure 1. Such tooth-like structures, if fused, would not form a simple extension of the rim of the final aperture but a structure of spiral nature following from one aperture to the next one. Paratypes of Globorotalia (T.) acostaensis tegillata coil randomly. Maximum diameters of seven paratypes from Core 15, Section 1, and Core 16, Section 1, range from about 200 to 400 microns.
References:
Brönnimann, P. & Resig, J. (1971). Brönnimann, P. & Resig, J. (1971). A Neogene globigerinacean biochronologic time-scale of the southwestern Pacific. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project. 7(2): 1235-1469. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project. 7(2): 1235-1469. gsO
Globorotalia (Turborotalia) acostaensis tegillata compiled by the pforams@mikrotax project teamviewed: 12-5-2025
These terms and conditions contain rules about posting comments. By submitting a comment, you are declaring that you agree with these rules:
Although the administrator will attempt to moderate comments, it is impossible for every comment to have been moderated at any given time.
You acknowledge that all comments express the views and opinions of the original author and not those of the administrator.
You agree not to post any material which is knowingly false, obscene, hateful, threatening, harassing or invasive of a person's privacy.
The administrator has the right to edit, move or remove any comment for any reason and without notice.
Failure to comply with these rules may result in being banned from submitting further comments.
These terms and conditions are subject to change at any time and without notice.
{"commentics_url":"\/\/www.mikrotax.org\/comments\/","page_id":751716,"enabled_country":true,"country_id":0,"enabled_state":false,"state_id":0,"enabled_upload":false,"maximum_upload_amount":3,"maximum_upload_size":5,"maximum_upload_total":5,"captcha":true,"captcha_url":"https:\/\/www.mikrotax.org\/comments\/frontend\/index.php?route=main\/form\/captcha&page_id=751716","cmtx_wait_for_comment":"cmtx_wait_for_comment","lang_error_file_num":"A maximum of %d files are allowed to be uploaded","lang_error_file_size":"Please upload files no bigger than %.1f MB in size","lang_error_file_total":"The total size of all files must be less than %.1f MB","lang_error_file_type":"Only image file types are allowed to be uploaded","lang_text_loading":"Loading ..","lang_placeholder_country":"Country","lang_placeholder_state":"State","lang_text_country_first":"Please select a country first","lang_button_submit":"Add Comment","lang_button_preview":"Preview","lang_button_remove":"Remove","lang_button_processing":"Please Wait.."}
Bronnim Resig 71 pl33f3 6-7 10.JPG/Globorotalia (Turborotalia) acostaensis tegillata/Bronnim Resig 71 pl33f3 6-7 10.JPG)
Bronnim Resig 71 pl33f3 6-7 10.JPG
Comments