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Catalog entries: Pullenia sphaeroides obliquiloculata, Globigerina antillensis, Pulleniatina obliquiloculata trochospira, Globigerina santamariaensis, Globigerina atlantis, Pulleniatina okinawaensis
Type images:Distinguishing features:
Parent taxon (Pulleniatina): Compact streptospiral test with smooth cortical coating and large slit-like aperture
This taxon: Test globose, rounded, aperture extending from umbilical area to periphery and onto spiral side.
Aperture: Umbilical-extraumbilical low archoften pustulate [Aze 2011, based on Kennett & Srinivasan 1983] Coiling direction (in extant population): dextral
Diagnostic characters:
Morphology:
Wall type:
Character matrix
test outline: | Subcircular | chamber arrangement: | Trochospiral | edge view: | Equally biconvex | aperture: | Umbilical-extraumbilical |
sp chamber shape: | Crescentic | coiling axis: | Low | periphery: | N/A | aperture border: | N/A |
umb chbr shape: | Subtriangular | umbilicus: | Narrow | periph margin shape: | Broadly rounded | accessory apertures: | None |
spiral sutures: | Flush | umb depth: | Shallow | wall texture: | Smooth | shell porosity: | Macroperforate: >2.5µm |
umbilical or test sutures: | Flush | final-whorl chambers: | 4-5 | N.B. These characters are used for advanced search. N/A - not applicable |
In modern oceans an abundant, warm water, species [SCOR WG138]
Geographic distribution
Most likely ancestor: Pulleniatina praecursor - at confidence level 3 (out of 5). Data source: Kennett & Srinivasan 1983, fig 22; Aze et al. 2011;Brummer & Kucera 2022;Mcculloch 1977; Natori 1976.
Likely descendants: Pulleniatina finalis;
plot with descendants
Geological Range:
Last occurrence (top): Extant. Data source: present in the plankton (SCOR WG138)
First occurrence (base): within N19 zone (4.37-5.20Ma, base in Zanclean stage). Data source: Chaisson & Pearson (1997)
Plot of occurrence data:
Primary source for this page: Kennett & Srinivasan 1983, p.202
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