Catalog entries: Tenuitella fleisheri, Toddella grata compressa
Type images:Distinguishing features:
Parent taxon (Tenuitellita):
This taxon: Five or more chambers, curved sutures
Coiling direction (in extant population): mixed
Morphology:
Wall type:
Character matrix
test outline: | Lobate | chamber arrangement: | Trochospiral | edge view: | Equally biconvex | aperture: | Extraumbilical-peripheral |
sp chamber shape: | Globular | coiling axis: | Low | periphery: | N/A | aperture border: | Thin lip |
umb chbr shape: | Globular | umbilicus: | Narrow | periph margin shape: | Broadly rounded | accessory apertures: | None |
spiral sutures: | Moderately depressed | umb depth: | Shallow | wall texture: | Finely pustulose | shell porosity: | Microperforate: <1µm |
umbilical or test sutures: | Strongly depressed | final-whorl chambers: | 4.5-5.5 | N.B. These characters are used for advanced search. N/A - not applicable |
In modern oceans a common, cold water, species [SCOR WG138, Brummer & Kucera 2014]
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:
Brummer, G. J. A. & Kucera, M. (2014). Brummer, G. J. A. & Kucera, M. (2014). SCOR/ICBP 138 taxonomy and key to species of modern planktonic foraminfera v2.1. Chart distributed at TMS FNG meeting Texel, The Netherlands, June 2014. 1-. In, Chart distributed at TMS FNG meeting Texel, The Netherlands, June 2014. 1-. gs Fordham, B. G. (1986). Fordham, B. G. (1986). Miocene-Pleistocene planktic foraminifers from D.S.D.P. Sites 208 and 77, and phylogeny and classification of Cenozoic species. Queensland, Australia. 1-224. Queensland, Australia. (6): 1-224. gs Li, Q. (1987). Li, Q. (1987). Origin, phylogenetic development and systematic taxonomy of the Tenuitella plexus (Globigerinitidae, Globigerininina). Journal of Foraminiferal Research. 17: 298-320. Journal of Foraminiferal Research. 17: 298-320. gs Loeblich, A. & Tappan, H. (1994). Loeblich, A. & Tappan, H. (1994). Foraminifera of the Sahul shelf and Timor Sea. Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, Special Publication. 31: 1-661. Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, Special Publication. 31: 1-661. gs O Meilland, J., Cornuault, P., Morard, Raphaël, Brummer, Geert-J. A. & Kucera, M. (2022). Meilland, J., Cornuault, P., Morard, Raphaël, Brummer, Geert-J. A. & Kucera, M. (2022). Identification guide to extant planktonic foraminifera. Part 1: Family Candeinidae and genera Berggrenia, Bolivina, Dentigloborotalia, and Neogallitellia. ICES Identification Leaflets for Plankton. 196: 1-22. ICES Identification Leaflets for Plankton. 196: 1-22. gs Schiebel, R. & Hemleben, C. (2017). Schiebel, R. & Hemleben, C. (2017). Planktic Foraminifers in the Modern Ocean. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg. 1-358. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg. 1-358. gsReferences:
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Tenuitellita fleisheri compiled by the pforams@mikrotax project team viewed: 8-7-2025
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