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Original Description
Description - Test almost equally biconvex; equatorial periphery almost circular to subcircular, very slightly lobate; test surface with pustules, the wall of the inner chambers on the spiral side is clearly covered by a crust; in edge view the peripheral margin is subacute to acute with a distinct keel; umbilical side with 7 to 10 equidimensional and subtriangular chambers, sutures straight and radial, umbilicus small, narrow and deep; spiral side with 2½ whorls; whorls tightly coiled with seven-nine (rarely ten) crescentic/petaloid chambers in the final whorl, increasing very slowly in size as added, sutures strongly recurved and weakly incised; aperture an interiomarginal, umbilical-extraumbilical, moderately high arch extending nearly to the periphery.
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Extra details from original publication
Occurrence - Zones P4a-P4c (basal part), late Paleocene. Geographic distribution - This taxon has been recorded at low and mid latitudes and it commonly occurs in the (sub)tropical planktonic foraminiferal assemblages from the Pacific Ocean (DSDP Leg 6, ODP Leg 143 and ODP Leg 198).
Wall texture - Praemuricate, nonspinose.
Discussion - Igorina isabellae n. sp. is an important component of the (sub)tropical assemblages of the northwestern and central Pacific Ocean. This keeled taxon is usually very distinctive in the assemblage assigned to Subzones P4a-P4b. Specimens similar to Igorina isabellae n. sp. and characterised by an imperforate carina along the peripheral margin were described by Blow (1979) from the Pacific Ocean as Globorotalia (Globorotalia) albeari Cushman & Bermúdez, 1949. These specimens are here included in the variability of Igorina isabellae n. sp. Typical forms of Igorina isabellae n. sp. have been previously illustrated by Petrizzo (2005) and Soldan et al. (2011) from Shatsky Rise sites.
Cladistic analyses performed on Paleocene specimens (Soldan et al., 2011) suggest that Igorina isabellae n. sp. is closely related to I. laevigata from which it evolved by increasing the number of chambers in the last whorl at the base of Subzone P4a. To date, its highest occurrence has been recorded in the lower part of Subzone P4c.
Igorina isabellae n. sp. is distinguished from I. laevigata in having a more circular equatorial periphery and for its larger number of chambers in the last whorl. It differs from I. albeari in possessing a distinct and well-developed keel around the peripheral margin.
Soldan, D. M. & Petrizzo, M. R. (2013). A new planktonic foraminifera species (Igorina isabellae n. sp.) from the late Paleocene of the Pacific Ocean. Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana. 52: 141-143. gsReferences:
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