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Catalog - Globotruncana calcarata Catalog - Globotruncana calcarata

CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Globotruncana calcarata Cushman 1927

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.


Higher levels: pf_cat -> G -> Globotruncana -> Globotruncana calcarata
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Globotruncana calcarata

Citation: Globotruncana calcarata Cushman 1927
Taxonomic rank: species
Type specimens: 73419; Plate 23, figures 10 a, b
Type sample (& lithostrat): Pecan Gap Chalk,
Type age (chronostrat): Late Campanian
Type locality: Cut in G. C. and S. F. R. R., at N. edge of Farmerville, TX, collected by Dr. L. W. Stephenson.
Type repository: Washington; USNM

Linked specimens: USNM-73419 USNM-6702

Current identification/main database link: Radotruncana calcarata (Cushman, 1927)


Original Description

Test trochoid, umbilicate, dorsal and ventral sides nearly parallel, the sides angled, obliquely truncate; chambers 4 or 5 in the final whorl, each with a stout peripheral spine, the early ones on the dorsal side oblique and marked by a bead-like ornamentation, ventrally radial, slightly depressed; aperture opening onto the umbilical region.

Size:
Diameter with spines 0.40 mm.

Extra details from original publication
This is related to Globotruncana arca (Cushman) but is distinct in the large, well developed peripheral spines. The species also occurs in the Mendez Shales of the Tampico Embayment, Mexico.

References:

Cushman, J. A. (1927b). New and interesting foraminifera from Mexico and Texas. Contributions from the Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research. 3(2): 111-119. gs


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