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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Globorotalia centralis Cushman & Bermudez 1937

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Higher levels: pf_cat -> G -> Globorotalia -> Globorotalia centralis
Other pages this level: << < G. birnageae, G. bollii, G. bonairensis, G. bononiensis, G. bouregregensis, G. broedermanni lodoensis, G. bullbrooki, G. bykovae, G. bykovae minoritesta, G. californica, G. californica Smith, G. canariensis minima, G. capdevilensis, G. cavernula, G. caylaensis, G. centralis, G. cerroazulensis cunialensis, G. cerroazulensis pomeroli, G. cerroazulensis possagnoensis, G. challengeri, G. chapmani, G. cibaoensis, G. cocoaensis, G. collactea, G. conica, G. conicotruncata, G. conomiozea, G. conomiozea mons, G. convexa, G. crassacarina, G. crassaconica> >>

Globorotalia centralis

Citation: Globorotalia centralis Cushman & Bermudez 1937
Taxonomic rank: species
Type repository: Washington; USNM

Linked specimens: USNM-23425 USNM-23426 USNM-64894

Current identification/main database link: Turborotalia cerroazulensis (Cole 1928)


Original Description

Test unequally biconvex, dorsal side only slightly so, ventrally very strongly convex, periphery rounded; chambers few, about 4 in the adult whorl, inflated, increasing rapidly in size as added; sutures distinct, depressed, on the dorsal side strongly oblique, gently curved or nearly straight, ventrally radial; wall smooth, distinctly perforate; aperture an elongate, low arched opening about midway of the ventral side from periphery to umbilicus. 

Size:
Diameter 0.45-0.55 mm.; thickness 0.35-0.45 mm.

Extra details from original publication
This species differs from G. cocoaensis Cushman in the more inflated form, more convex ventral side, and more rounded periphery.

Editors' Notes
original combination not double checked

References:

Bolli, H. M., Loeblich, A. R. & Tappan, H. (1957). Planktonic foraminiferal families Hantkeninidae, Orbulinidae, Globorotaliidae and Globotruncanidae. 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: 3-50. gs

Cushman, J. A. & Bermudez, P. J. (1937). Further new species of foraminifera from the Eocene of Cuba. Contributions from the Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research. 13(1): 1-29. gs


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