Catalog entries: Globorotalia pumilio
Type images:Distinguishing features:
Parent taxon (Berggrenia): Radial ridges on umbilical side:
This taxon: monospecific
Small, low trochospiral, 4½-6 chambers in the last whorl, umbilicus narrow and deep. Final chamber ampullate and adumbilically directed, or kummerform.
Morphology:
Coiling direction (in extant population): dextral
Wall type:
Size:
Character matrix
test outline: | Lobate | chamber arrangement: | Trochospiral | edge view: | Equally biconvex | aperture: | Umbilical-extraumbilical |
sp chamber shape: | Globular | coiling axis: | Low | periphery: | N/A | aperture border: | Thin lip |
umb chbr shape: | Globular | umbilicus: | Wide | periph margin shape: | Moderately rounded | accessory apertures: | None |
spiral sutures: | Moderately depressed | umb depth: | Shallow | wall texture: | Smooth | shell porosity: | Finely Perforate: 1-2.5µm |
umbilical or test sutures: | Moderately depressed | final-whorl chambers: | 4.5-6 | N.B. These characters are used for advanced search. N/A - not applicable |
In modern oceans a rare, temperate water, species [SCOR WG138]
Geographic distribution
Geological Range:
Last occurrence (top): Extant. Data source: present in the plankton (SCOR WG138)
First occurrence (base): within No known fossil record modern (0.00-0.00Ma, base in "Holocene" stage). Data source:
Plot of occurrence data:
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Berggrenia pumilio compiled by the pforams@mikrotax project team viewed: 6-10-2024
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