Catalog - Velapertina cingulata Catalog - Velapertina cingulata

CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Velapertina cingulata Popescu 1969

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Velapertina cingulata

Citation: Velapertina cingulata Popescu 1969
Taxonomic rank: species
Type specimens: pl. 1. figs. 1, 3; holotype (fig. 3a-c), no. 9146.
Type sample (& lithostrat): "Spirialis marls horizon"
Type age (chronostrat): Miocene, Upper Tortonian,
Type locality: Piatra, Bistrita-Nasaud district, South-central Romania. Also found in the upper Tortonian of northern Transylvania.
Type repository: Bucharest; Paleontological Laboratory of the University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania;

Current identification:


Original Description

Test free, globular: chamber increasing rapidly in size, the last enveloping almost entirely the former one: calcareous wall, radial in structure with pitted surface: 8 chamber diposed in about 2 whorls may be distinguished: the primary interiomarginal umbilical aperture is covered by a very different in shape and size bulla; many infralaminal apertures on the apertural bulla suture.

Size:
Largest diameter = 0.47 mm .

Extra details from original publication
Remarks. - Velapertina cingulara differs from V. indigena. by its globular form, a less inflated apertural bulla. and a prolongement or this one as a belt along the suture, reaching the spiral side. Beside the apertural bulla, Velapertina cingulara may have also some sutural bulla resulting by strangulatio n of the a pert ural one prolongi ng on the sutures.

References:

Popescu, G. (1969). Some new Globigerina (Foraminifera) from the upper Tortonian of the Transylvanian Basin and the Subcarpathians. Revue Roumaine de Géologie Géophysique et Géographie. 13: 103-106. gs


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