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Catalog - Hastigerinella alexanderi Catalog - Hastigerinella alexanderi

CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Hastigerinella alexanderi Cushman 1931

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 -> H -> Hastigerinella -> Hastigerinella alexanderi
Other pages this level: H. alexanderi, H. bermudezi, H. bizonae, H. caucasica, H. colombiana, H. eocanica, H. eocanica aragonensis, H. frailensis, H. jarvisi, H. moremani, H. rhumbleri, H. riedeli, H. simplex, H. simplicissima, H. subcretacea, H. watersi

Hastigerinella alexanderi

Citation: Hastigerinella alexanderi Cushman 1931
Taxonomic rank: species
Type specimens: 15750
Type age (chronostrat): Santonian
Type locality: Eastern slope of a deep road cut between two railroad underpasses near the northern edge of the town of Howe, Grayson County, TX
Type repository: Washington; USNM

Linked specimens: USNM-15754 USNM-15751 USNM-15754 USNM-15750

Current identification/main database link: Hastigerinoides alexanderi (Cushman, 1931)


Original Description

"Test nearly planispiral, the early chambers largely concealed from both sides; chambers greatly expanded in the adult coil, consisting typically of 6 chambers, but occasionally only 5, the earliest ones subglobular, but quickly expanding and greatly elongating, tapering rathe uniformly to a pointed outer end; suturs distinct, slightly depressed; wall nearly smooth, or finely hispid; aperture nearly at the peripheral margin at the base of the chambers, with a very slight lip."

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. (1931a). Hastigerinella and other interesting foraminifera from the Upper Cretaceous of Texas. Contributions from the Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research. 7(4): 17-19. gs

Cushman, J. A. (1946). A rich foraminiferal fauna from the Cocoa sand of Alabama. Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research, Special Publication. 16: 40-. gs

Georgescu, M. D. & Huber, B. T. (2008). Taxonomic re-evaluation and phylogeny of the stellate planktonic foraminiferal genus Hastigerinoides Brönnimann, 1952. Journal of Foraminiferal Research. 38: 52-58. gs

Pessagno, E. A. (1967). Upper Cretaceous planktonic foraminifera from the western Gulf Coastal Plain. Palaeontographica Americana. 5: 245-445. gs O


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