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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Guembelina midwayensis Cushman 1940

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Guembelina midwayensis

Citation: Guembelina midwayensis Cushman 1940
Taxonomic rank: species
Type specimens: 35715
Type locality: Paleocene, Sumter County, Alabama
Type repository: Washington; USNM

Linked specimens: USNM-35715

Current identification/main database link: Chiloguembelina midwayensis (Cushman 1940)


Original Description

"Test small, compressed, usually twice as long as broad, rapidly tapering, with the greatest breadth formed by the last pair of chambers, periphery rounded throughout, lobulate; chambers with breadth and height about equal, slightly overlapping, inflated, increasing rapidly in height as added; sutures distinct, depressed, very slightly curved, wall finely spinose; aperture high, arched, with distinct lateral flanges (sic). Length 0.18-0.22 mm.; breadth 0.10-0.12 mm.; thickness 0.05 mm."

References:

Cushman, J. A. (1940). Midway foraminifera from Alabama. Contributions from the Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research. 16(3): 51-73. gs

Olsson, R. K., Hemleben, C., Berggren, W. A. & Huber, B. T. (1999). Atlas of Paleocene Planktonic Foraminifera. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC. (85): 1-252. gs


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