Catalog entries: Globorotalia cibaoensis
Type images:Distinguishing features:
Parent taxon (hirsuta lineage): G. scitula - juanai - margaritae - hirsuta lineage
This taxon: Distinguished by its biconvex test with a rounded periphery (sometimes angular or narrowly keeled in the final chamber.)
Aperture: Interiomarginal umbilical-extraumbilical low arch bordered by a thin lip [Aze 2011, based on Kennett & Srinivasan 1983]
Diagnostic characters:
Morphology:
Wall type:
Character matrix
| test outline: | Lobate | chamber arrangement: | Trochospiral | edge view: | Inequally biconvex | aperture: | Umbilical-extraumbilical |
| sp chamber shape: | Crescentic | coiling axis: | Low | periphery: | N/A | aperture border: | Thin lip |
| umb chbr shape: | Subtriangular | umbilicus: | Narrow | periph margin shape: | Subangular | accessory apertures: | None |
| spiral sutures: | Weakly depressed | umb depth: | Shallow | wall texture: | Smooth | shell porosity: | Macroperforate: >2.5µm |
| umbilical or test sutures: | Weakly depressed | final-whorl chambers: | 4-4.5 | N.B. These characters are used for advanced search. N/A - not applicable | |||
[SCOR WG138]
Geographic distribution
Isotope paleobiology
Phylogenetic relations
Gr. (H) cibaoensis descended from G. (H.) scitula in the Late Miocene and is a close relative of the Gr. ( H ) juanai-margaritae plexus. We believe it is the ancestor of Globorotalia crassula Cushman and Stewart, which evolved in temperate-Subantarctic areas during the latest Miocene and thence gave rise to the Gr. (T.) crassaformis to Gr. (T.) truncatulinoides lineage. We have observed gradation between Gr.(H) cibaoensis and Gr. (T.) crassula in DSDP Site 281 (Subantarctic area). [Kennett & Srinivasan 1983]
Most likely ancestor: Globorotalia scitula - at confidence level 3 (out of 5). Data source: Kennett & Srinivasan 1983, fig 15; Stewart 2003 fig. 6.10; Aze et al. 2011, appendix 5.
Likely descendants: Globorotalia crassula;
plot with descendants
Geological Range:
Notes: The first appearance of Gr. (H.) cibaoensis provides a valuable biostratigraphic datum for correlation of Late Miocene-Pacific DSDP sequences close to the ∂C13 shift at 6.2 Ma.
Last occurrence (top): in upper part of PL1 [Atl.] zone (81% up, 4.6Ma, in Zanclean stage). Data source: Wade et al. (2011), additional event; position within zone determined by linear interpolation from data in table 1 of Wade et al. (2011).
First occurrence (base): in lower part of M13a subzone (35% up, 9.4Ma, in Tortonian stage). Data source: Wade et al. (2011), additional event; position within zone determined by linear interpolation from data in table 1 of Wade et al. (2011).
Plot of occurrence data:
Primary source for this page: Kennett & Srinivasan 1983, p.136
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