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Linked specimens: USNM-208347 USNM-208344 USNM-208345 USNM-208346
Current identification/main database link: Globorotalia menardii (Parker, Jones & Brady, 1865 after d'Orbigny, 1826 nomen nudum)
Original Description
Description of the holotype. - Test fairly large. consisting of about two and one-half whorls of rapidly enlarging chambers arranged in a high, dome-shaped trochospire. There are five chambers in the last whorl. The spiral (dorsal) side is characteristically humped or arched by the spiral arrangement of all chambers of the last whorl. The apertural (ventral) side is relatively flat with depressed sutures. Umbilicus small. open and deep. The aperture extends from the umbilicus to the periphery and is bordered by a broad lip. The wall is finely perforate except along the base of the aperture.
Extra details from original publication
Kennett. and Be differs from G. menardii gibberula in that the former's flexuose (twisted) condition is restricted to the last-formeel chamber(s), whereas in the latter all the chambers of the last whorl contribute to the dome-shaped appearance."
Bé, A. W. H. (1977). Bé, A. W. H. (1977). An ecological, zoographic and taxonomic review of Recent planktonic foraminifera. In, Ramsay, A. T. S. (ed.) Oceanic Micropaleontology. Academic Press, London 1-100. In, Ramsay, A. T. S. (ed.) Oceanic Micropaleontology. Academic Press, London (1): 1-100. gsReferences:
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