CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Tenuitellinata Li 1987
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Original Description Test small, low to medium trochospiral, with convex spiral side; chambers globular to subglobular, about 11-13 slowly enlarging chambers arranged in 2 whorls, 4-5 chambers in final whorl; sutures radial on umbilical (involute) side, radial to slightly curved on spiral (evolute) side; umbilicus small to closed; wall microperforate and pustulate; aperture a low arch, intra umbilical, bordered with a thin lip, but lacking a bulla. Stratigraphic range. Eocene?-Oligocene to Holocene. Size: Etymology: Extra details from original publication Remarks -Tenuitellinata is superficially similar to Tenuitella, but differs in apertural details. In Tenuitella, the aperture is always umbilical-extraumbilical (-peripheral), but species of Tenuitellinata possess an intraumbilical aperture. Tenuitellinata may have evolved from Tenuitella by migration of the aperture to the umbilicus; hence they are phylogenetically closely related. Separation of this new genus from Tenuitella is to mark an evolutionary stage, which may then have evolved into bullate Globigerinita.
Stratigraphic range - Eocene?-Oligocene to Holocene.
Included species
Tenuitellinata angustiumbilicata (Bolli)
Tenuitellinata juvenilis (Bolli)
Tenuitellinata cf. T. pseudoedita (Subbotina)
Editors' Notes
References:
Li, Q. (1987). Origin, phylogenetic development and systematic taxonomy of the Tenuitella plexus (Globigerinitidae, Globigerininina). Journal of Foraminiferal Research. 17: 298-320. gs
Tenuitellinata compiled by the pforams@mikrotax project teamviewed: 6-2-2023
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