CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Globorotalia scitula praescitula Blow 1959
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Original Description Test a fairly low trochospiral; spire opening regularly but not rapidly, with four to five chambers in the last whorl; equatorial profile ovate to subcircular; equatorial periphery lobate; axial periphery subacute but not keeled, although some peripheral thickening occurs on the earlier chambers; sutures of the spiral side depressed and strongly curved; sutures of the umbilical side depressed, slightly sinuous to radial; spiral side convex, umbilical side distinctly convex to rather vaulted; chambers longer than broad, elongate tangentially as seen from the spiral side; umbilicus small, sometimes closed, but often fairly deep; aperture interiomarginal, umbilical-extraumbilical, a low arch with a thin lip; wall calcareous, finely perforate, not glassy. Size: maximum diameter of holotype, 0.30 mm. Extra details from original publication Remarks: This subspecies differs from Globorotalia scitula scitula (Brady) in having more tangentially elongate chambers, a more convex umbilical side, and a less finely perforate wall texture; the periphery is also generally more acute but transitional forms occur in the upper part of the Globorotalia fohsi barisanensis Zone.
Occurrence: Ranges from the base of the Pozon-El Mene Road section (Catapsydrax stainforthi Zone) to the top of the Globorotalia fohsi barisanensis Zone, Pozon formation.
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
Blow, W. H. (1969). Late middle Eocene to Recent planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy. In, Bronnimann, P. & Renz, H. H. (eds) Proceedings of the First International Conference on Planktonic Microfossils, Geneva, 1967. E J Brill, Leiden 380-381. gs
Globorotalia scitula praescitula compiled by the pforams@mikrotax project teamviewed: 5-9-2026
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