Catalog entries: Globorotalia crassata aequa, Globorotalia lacerti, Globorotalia praenartanensis, Globorotalia loeblichi, Globorotalia (Morozovella) aequa tholiformis, Globorotalia aequa bullata
Type images:Distinguishing features:
Parent taxon (Morozovella): Test typically plano-convex, chambers strongly anguloconical.
Wall strongly pustulose (muricate) on parts of spire and umbilicus. Most species with muricocarina.
This taxon: Like M. apanthesma but with less chambers (usually 4), more involute coiling (and so a more closed umbilicus) and a peripheral muricocarina.
Emended description:
Morphology:
Wall type:
Size:
Character matrix
test outline: | Lobate | chamber arrangement: | Trochospiral | edge view: | Planoconvex | aperture: | Umbilical-extraumbilical |
sp chamber shape: | Petaloid | coiling axis: | Moderate-high | periphery: | Muricocarinate | aperture border: | N/A |
umb chbr shape: | Subtriangular | umbilicus: | Narrow | periph margin shape: | Subangular | accessory apertures: | None |
spiral sutures: | Raised muricate | umb depth: | Deep | wall texture: | Moderately muricate | shell porosity: | Finely Perforate: 1-2.5µm |
umbilical or test sutures: | Moderately depressed | final-whorl chambers: | 4.0-5.0 | N.B. These characters are used for advanced search. N/A - not applicable |
Geographic distribution: Morozovella aequa is a geographically widespread species, having been recorded from areas circumscribed by latitudes 50°N (Goban Spur, northeastern Atlantic Ocean; Snyder and Waters, 1985) and 50°S (Falkland Plateau; Tjalsma, 1977); it occurs as far south as nearly 60° (Kerguelen Plateau; Berggren, 1992) during the brief early Eocene (Zone P6) temporal excursion of (sub)tropical morozovellids. [Olsson et al. 1999]
Aze et al. 2011 summary: Cosmopolitan; based on Olsson et al. (1999)
Isotope paleobiology: Morozovella aequa has more positive ∂13C and more negative ∂18O than Subbotina and Globanomalina and a similar isotopic signature to coexisting morozovellids, such as M. velascoensis (Lu and Keller, 1996; Berggren and Norris, 1997). [Olsson et al. 1999]
Aze et al. 2011 ecogroup 1 - Open ocean mixed-layer tropical/subtropical, with symbionts. Based on very heavy δ13C and relatively light δ18O. Sources cited by Aze et al. 2011 (appendix S3): Lu & Keller (1996); Berggren & Norris (1997)
Phylogenetic relations: Morozovella aequa evolved from M. apanthesma through concomitant reduction in the number of chambers and the development of both more involute coiling (resulting in a more closed umbilicus) and a peripheral muricocarina. We have observed this transition both in our material and particularly at DSDP Site 384, where it occurs at the base of Zone P4c together with the appearance of various acarininid taxa of the soldadoensis and primitiva !coalingensis plexus in the younger part of Chron C25r. We have not found this form in lower parts of the stratigraphic record (cf. Blow, 1979; Lu and Keller, 1995). [Olsson et al. 1999]
Most likely ancestor: Morozovella apanthesma - at confidence level 4 (out of 5). Data source: Olsson et al. (1999) f5a.
Likely descendants: Morozovella subbotinae;
plot with descendants
Geological Range:
Notes: Zone P4c to Zone P7. [Olsson et al. 1999]
Last occurrence (top): at top of E5 zone (100% up, 50.7Ma, in Ypresian stage). Data source: Olsson et al. (1999) f5a
First occurrence (base): at base of P4c subzone (0% up, 57.8Ma, in Thanetian stage). Data source: Olsson et al. (1999) f5a
Plot of occurrence data:
Primary source for this page: Olsson et al. 1999 - Atlas of Paleocene Planktonic Foraminifera, p. 57
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