pforams@mikrotax - Globigerinatheka barri

Citation: Globigerinatheka barri Bronnimann 1952

Basionym: Globigerinatheka barri

Synonyms:

Globigerinatheka barri Brönnimann, 1952:27 (partim), text-fig. 3a-c (holotype), 3g, h, paratypes [upper Eocene, Mount Moriah Fm., Harmony Hall Well 2, Trinidad] (not text- figs. 3d-f = G. kugleri).—Bolli, Loeblich and Tappan, 1957: pl. 7: figs. 12a-c [middle Eocene, Navet Fm., Trinidad].—Bolli, 1957:166, pl. 37: figs. 8, 9 [middle Eocene Porticulasphaera mexicana Zone, Navet Fm., Trinidad].—Mohan and Soodan, 1970: pl 1: fig. 6 [middle Eocene Orbulinoides beckmanni Zone, Kutch, India].— Postuma, 1971:164, figs. on p. 165 [Trinidad].—Stainforth and others, 1975: figs. 37.1, 3 (from Bolli, 1957), figs. 37.4-6 (from Bolli, 1972).—Blow, 1979:866, pl. 241: fig. 9 [upper Eocene Zone P15, Sample FCRM 1644, Lindi area, Tanzania].—Salaj, 1980: pl. 26: fig. 9 [middle Eocene Zone P13, Enfidaville, Tunisia]; pl. 27: figs. 7-9, 12 [?Zone P15, Dj. Fkirine, Tunisia].
Globigerinatheka (Globigerinatheka) index barri Brönnimann.—Jenkins, 1971:186, pl. 21: fig. 632 [upper Eocene, type Runangan, Port Elisabeth Section, New Zealand].
Globigerinatheka mexicana barri Brönnimann.—Bolli, 1972:128, text-figs. 18-20 (holotype refigured), text-figs. 21-23 (from Bolli and others, 1957), pl. 1: figs. 18-21 [middle Eocene Globigerinatheka subconglobata Zone (figs. 18-19) and Orbulinoides beckmanni Zone (fig. 21), Possagno Section, northern Italy]; pl. 2: figs. 8-20 [middle Eocene Orbulinoides beckmanni Zone, Navet Fm., Trinidad].—Toumarkine, 1975: pl. 4: fig. 5 [middle Eocene Globorotalia lehneri to Truncorotaloides rohri Zone, DSDP Site 305, Shatsky Rise, northwest Pacific Ocean].—Poore and Brabb, 1977: pl. 4: figs. 13-4, pl. 7: fig. 3 [middle Eocene Zones P13-P14, San Lorenzo Fm., California].—Toumarkine, 1978: pl. 4: fig. 8 [middle Eocene Globorotalia lehneri to Truncorotaloides rohri Zone, DSDP Site 360, South Atlantic Ocean]; pl. 4: fig. 9 [upper Eocene Globigerinatheka semiinvoluta Zone, DSDP Site 363, South Atlantic Ocean], pl. 4: fig. 11 [middle Eocene Hantkenina aragonensis to Globorotalia lehneri Zone, DSDP Site 363, South Atlantic Ocean].— Toumarkine, 1983: pl. 20: figs. 18-22, 28 [upper Eocene Zone P15, DSDP Site 363, South Atlantic Ocean]; figs. 23-27 (from Bolli, 1972); figs. 29a-c (from Bolli and others, 1957).—Nishi and Chaproniere, 1994: pl. 2: figs. 25-26 [upper Eocene Zones P15/16, DSDP Hole 841B, southwest Pacific Ocean].—Warraich and Nishi 2003: pl. 2: figs. 8a-b [middle Eocene Zone P12, Zinda Pir West Section, Indus Basin, Pakistan].
?Globigerinatheka barri Brönnimann.—Snyder and Waters, 1985: pl. 5: fig. 1 [DSDP Site 549A, Goban Spur, eastern North Atlantic Ocean].—Huber, 1991:440, pl. 7: fig. 16 [upper Eocene Zone AP12, ODP Hole 738B, Kerguelen Plateau, south Indian Ocean].
?Globigerinatheka mexicana barri Brönnimann.—Nishi and Chaproniere, 1994: pl. 2: figs. 10-12 [upper Eocene DSDP Hole 841B, south-west Pacific Ocean].
Globigerapsis index (Finlay). —Samanta, 1970: pl. 2: fig. 16 [middle Eocene Orbulinoides beckmanni Zone, Lakhpat Cutch, India]. [Not Finlay, 1939.]
?Globigerapsis mexicana (Cushman).—Toumarkine, 1971: pl. 3: figs. 8-10 [upper Eocene Globigerapsis semiinvoluta Zone, Halimba borehole, Bakony, Hungary]. [Not Cushman, 1925.]
Globigerinatheka mexicana mexicana (Cushman).— Toumarkine, 1978: pl. 4: fig. 6 [middle Eocene Orbulinoides beckmanni Zone, DSDP Site 363, South Atlantic Ocean]; pl. 4: fig. 7 [middle Eocene Truncorotaloides rohri Zone, DSDP Site 363, South Atlantic Ocean]. [Not Cushman, 1925.] Globigerinatheka index tropicalis (Blow and Banner).—Bolli, 1972: pl. 3: figs. 14-15 [upper Eocene Globigerinatheka semiinvoluta Zone, Navet Fm., Trinidad]. [Not Blow and Banner, 1962.]
Globigerinatheka tropicalis (Blow and Banner).—Stainforth and others, 1975, figs. 94.4-5 [from Bolli, 1972]. [Not Blow and Banner, 1962.]
Not Globigerinatheka barri Brönnimann.—Eckert, 1963: pl. 7: fig. 4a-c (= G. luterbacheri). —Samanta, 1970: pl. 2: figs. 20-21 (= G. mexicana).—Baumann, 1970: pl. 3: fig. 1 [middle Eocene Globigerapsis mexicana Zone, Scalette Section, Umbria, Italy] (= G. euganea).—Toumarkine, 1971: pl. 3: figs., 1-4 [fig. 1, upper Eocene Globigerapsis semiinvoluta Zone; figs. 2-3, middle Eocene Truncorotaloides rohri Zone, Halimba borehole, Bakony, Hungary] (= G. mexicana).—Pujol, 1983: pl. 8: fig. 12 [upper Eocene Zone P15-16, DSDP Hole 516F, Rio Grande Rise, South Atlantic Ocean] (= G. euganea).— Snyder and Waters, 1985: pl. 5: fig. 2 [DSDP Hole 549A, Goban Spur, eastern North Atlantic Ocean] (= G. luterbacheri).

Taxonomic discussion: In the original drawings of Globigerinatheka barri Bronnimann (1952) the specimen in text-figs. 3d-f does not have bullae, and is more consistent with G. kugleri. Bolli (1972) reported that G. barri is “almost identical” with G. mexicana except for the lack of bullae in the latter. For this reason, he considered barri as a subspecies of G. mexicana. However, as reported above, and in agreement with Blow (1979), G. barri differs from G. mexicana in having a shorter, slightly higher initial spire, sutures that are more depressed and a smaller flatter last chamber.
The specimen identified by Samanta (1970, pl. 2, fig. 16) as G. index shows a coiling mode that is close to that of G. barri, to which it is here attributed, even though it is devoid of bullae. [Premoli Silva et al. 2006]

Distinguishing features:
Parent taxon (Globigerinatheka): Medium to large, subspherical to spherical tests; multiple secondary apertures, frequently covered by bullae.
This taxon: Test compact test, nearly globular. Characterized by numerous secondary subcircular apertures with bullae.

Description

Globigerinatheka barri is characterized by its numerous secondary apertures with bullae. It differs from G. mexicana in having fewer chambers in the first whorl which are arranged in a slightly higher trochospire, more depressed sutures throughout the test, and a smaller flatter last chamber which occupies a maximum of one third of the entire test (instead of half of it, as in G. mexicana). Even
though several features, like the secondary apertures, are masked by numerous bullae, G. barri differs from G. kugleri in having the test nearly globular instead of roughly subtriangular, a less lobate and more compact outline, subcircular apertures instead of rather wide low arches, and common bullae with subcircular accessory apertures. [Premoli Silva et al. 2006]

Subglobular to globular, early chambers in low trochospiral as in Globigerina, later chambers more or less streptospirally coiled, with the larger last chambers tending to envelop the previous whorls and the final chamber frequently enveloping and covering the umbilical area formed by the previous chambers. Sutures depressed, radial. Primary aperture in the early globigerinid stage interiomarginal, umbilical, in later stage single primary aperture may be replaced by multiple, arched, sutural apertures. In the enveloping, final chamber one or more secondary sutural apertures may or may not be covered by bullae of varying size. Each bulla possesses one or more small infralaminal accessory apertures. [Premoli Silva et al. 2006]

Spinose, cancellate; commonly covered by a thick calcite crust. [Premoli Silva et al. 2006]

Biogeography and Palaeobiology

Common in low and middle latitudes. [Premoli Silva et al. 2006]
Aze et al. 2011 summary: Low to middle latitudes; based on Premoli Silva et al. (2006)

No data available. [Premoli Silva et al. 2006]
Aze et al. 2011 ecogroup 1 - Open ocean mixed-layer tropical/subtropical, with symbionts; based on comparison with other species of the genus.

Saito (1962) and Bolli (1972) suggested that G. barri may have evolved from G. subconglobata. However, Bolli (1972, p. 114) in the reconstruction of the globigerinathekid phylogenetic tree proposed mexicana as ancestral to barri, from which he suggested kugleri evolved; this relationship is rejected here.
[Premoli Silva et al. 2006]

Most likely ancestor:
Globigerinatheka subconglobata - at confidence level 3 (out of 5). Data source: Premoli Silva et al. 2006 f7.1.

Biostratigraphic distribution

Geological Range:
Notes: G. barri is confined mainly to the middle Eocene, appearing in the mid-part of Zone E9 and extending up almost to the top of Zone E14. [Premoli Silva et al. 2006]
Last occurrence (top): within E14 zone (35.89-37.99Ma, top in Priabonian stage). Data source: Premoli Silva et al. 2006 f7.1
First occurrence (base): in upper part of E9 zone (60% up, 43.5Ma, in Lutetian stage). Data source: Premoli Silva et al. 2006 f7.1

Primary source for this page: Premoli Silva et al. 2006 - Eocene Atlas, chap. 7, p. 177

References:

Baumann, P. (1970). Mikropalaentologische und stratigraphische Untersuchungen der obereozaenen-oligozaenen Scaglia im zentralen Apennin (Italien). Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae. 63: 1133-1211. gs

Blow, W. H. & Banner, F. T. (1962). The mid-Tertiary (Upper Eocene to Aquitanian) Globigerinaceae. In, Eames, F. E., Banner, F. T., Blow, W. H. & Clarke, W. J. (eds) Fundamentals of mid-Tertiary Stratigraphical Correlation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 61-151. gs

Blow, W. H. (1979). The Cainozoic Globigerinida: A study of the morphology, taxonomy, evolutionary relationships and stratigraphical distribution of some Globigerinida (mainly Globigerinacea). E. J. Brill, Leiden. 2: 1-1413. gs

Bolli, H. M. (1957a). Planktonic foraminifera from the Eocene Navet and San Fernando formations of Trinidad. In, Loeblich, A. R. , Jr., Tappan, H., Beckmann, J. P., Bolli, H. M., Montanaro Gallitelli, E. & Troelsen, J. C. (eds) Studies in Foraminifera. U.S. National Museum Bulletin . 215: 155-172. gs

Bolli, H. M. (1972b). The genus Globigerinatheka Bronnimann. Journal of Foraminiferal Research. 2(3): 109-136. gs O

Bolli, H. M., Loeblich, A. R. & Tappan, H. (1957). Planktonic foraminiferal families Hantkeninidae, Orbulinidae, Globorotaliidae and Globotruncanidae. In, Loeblich, A. R. , Jr., Tappan, H., Beckmann, J. P., Bolli, H. M., Montanaro Gallitelli, E. & Troelsen, J. C. (eds) Studies in Foraminifera. U.S. National Museum Bulletin . 215: 3-50. gs

Brönnimann, P. (1952a). Globigerinoita and Globigerinatheka, new genera from the Tertiary of Trinidad, B.W.I. Contributions from the Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research. 3(1): 25-28. gs

Cushman, J. A. (1925d). New foraminifera from the Upper Eocene of Mexico. Contributions from the Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research. 1(1): 4-9. gs

Eckert, H. R. (1963). Die obereeozaen Globigerinen-Schiefer (Stadund Schimbergerschiefer) zwischen Pilatus und Schrattenfluh. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae. 56: 1001-1072. gs O

Finlay, H. J. (1939b). New Zealand foraminifera: Key species in stratigraphy - no. 2. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 69(1): 89-128. gs

Huber, B. T. (1991c). Paleogene and Early Neogene Planktonic Foraminifer Biostratigraphy of Sites 738 and 744, Kerguelen Plateau (Southern Indian Ocean). Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results. 119: 427-449. gs

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test outline:	Circular	chamber arrangement:	Enveloping	edge view:	Equally biconvex	aperture:	Umbilical
sp chamber shape:	Globular	coiling axis:	Low	periphery:	N/A	aperture border:	N/A
umb chbr shape:	Globular	umbilicus:	Narrow	periph margin shape:	Broadly rounded	accessory apertures:	Sutural
spiral sutures:	Moderately depressed	umb depth:	Deep	wall texture:	Spinose	shell porosity:	Macroperforate: >2.5µm
umbilical or test sutures:	Moderately depressed	final-whorl chambers:	4-5	N.B. These characters are used for advanced search. N/A - not applicable

Globigerinatheka barri

Taxonomy

Description

Biogeography and Palaeobiology

Biostratigraphic distribution

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