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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Rugoglobigerina tradinghousensis Pessagno 1967

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 -> R -> Rugoglobigerina -> Rugoglobigerina tradinghousensis
Other pages this level: R. alpina, R. jerseyensis, R. kingi, R. lobatula, R. macrocephala macrocephala, R. macrocephala ornata, R. mexicana, R. milamensis, R. praehelvetica, R. pseudorugosa, R. reicheli hexacamerata, R. reicheli pustulata, R. reicheli reicheli, R. rugosa pennyi, R. rugosa rotundata, R. spinosa, R. tradinghousensis

Rugoglobigerina tradinghousensis

Citation: Rugoglobigerina tradinghousensis Pessagno 1967
Taxonomic rank: species
Type specimens: Piale 64, figures 1-8; 689277
Type repository: Washington; USNM

Linked specimens: USNM-689277 USNM-689276

Current identification/main database link: Rugoglobigerina rugosa (Plummer, 1927)


Original Description

Test trochospiral, typically spiroconvex, comprised of three whorls of spherical chambers; three or five chambers in final whorl. Earlier whorls coiled in higher plane than final whorl; typically offset above the plane of coiling of final whorl. Early whorls strongly rugose with rugosities or costellae arranged meridorially; last whorl more weakly rugose, sometimes completely lacking rugosities. Umbilicus small, deep, covered by spiral system of tegilla with infralaminal and intralaminal accessory apertures in well- preserved specimens. Primary aperture interiomarginal, umbilical in position. Outer wall except for rugosities radial hyaline, perforate. Rugosities ultragranular hyaline, imperforate. Septal walls and tegilla microgranular hyaline, finely perforate.

Etymology:
This species is named tor Tradinghouse Creek.McLennan County, Texas.

Extra details from original publication
Remarks: Rugoglobigerina tradinghousensis Pessagno, n. sp. differs fromRugoglobigerina rugosa (Plummer) (1) by possessing a distinctly smaller and deeper umbilicus: (2) by being higher spired: and (3) by having only weakly rugose chambers in its final whorl.

References:

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


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