• Globigerina praebulloides praebulloides Blow, ideotype, 1962:92, pl. IX, figs. O-Q [lower Oligocene Zone P19, Tanzania]. [Not Blow, 1959.]
• Globigerina praebulloides Blow.—Chaproniere, 1980:109, figs. 4 Ea-d, Ja,b [upper Oligocene/lower Miocene Zone O7/M1, northwest Australia].—Kennett and Srinivasan, 1983:36, pl. 6, figs. 1-3 [upper Oligocene Subzone N4a, DSDP Site 289, western equatorial Pacific Ocean].—Spezzaferri and Premoli Silva, 1991:246, pl. VI, figs. 3a-c, 4a-d, 6a-c, [upper Oligocene Zone P22, DSDP Hole 538A, Gulf of Mexico].—Spezzaferri, 1994:27, pl. 2, figs. 3a-c [lower Miocene Subzone N4b, DSDP Hole 516F, Rio Grande Rise, South Atlantic Ocean].—Li and McGowran, 2000:42, fig. 23E [lower Miocene Zone SN 2, southeastern Australia].
• ?Globigerina bollii lentiana Rögl, 1969:220, pl. 3, fig. 1 [lower Miocene, Nannoplankton Zone NN2, Phosphoritsande, Plesching near Linz, Austria].
• Globigerina cf. bulloides d’Orbigny.—Pearson and Wade, 2009:203, pl. 4, figs. 1a-d [upper Oligocene Zone O7, Trinidad].
• Globoturborotalita sp. C Li and McGowran, 2000:45, figs. 20C, D [lower Miocene, Zones SN2, southeastern Australia].

Blow’s species Globigerina praebulloides has been used by many workers to represent forms resembling Globigerina bulloides and considered to be early representatives of the bulloides lineage. SEM images of the holotype of praebulloides reveal a bulloides-type wall texture (Plate 6.8, Figs. 4-6, Chapter 6, this volume), however, the morphology is of a globigerinellid, i.e. evolute coiling and an extraumbilical aperture, and it is regarded as a junior synonym of Globigerinella obesa Bolli, therefore invalidating the name. In contrast, the majority of forms identified as G. praebulloides have a lobulate bulloides test morphology but lack the bulloides-type wall texture, having instead a much lower pore density and a significantly larger pore diameter than in G. bulloides. These wall textures can be attributed to the ruber/sacculifer-type. Globoturborotalita pseudopraebulloides n. sp., described herein is designed to carry this praebulloides ‘ideotype’. Globigerina bulloides s.s. appears in the upper Oligocene (Chapter 6, this volume) and overlaps in range with G. pseudopraebulloides. The bulloides-type wall texture can be traced to the lower Oligocene Zone O1 showing that the two species have separate unrelated lineages (see Chapter 6, this volume for further discussion). [Spezzaferri et al. 2018]

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