arrayname: original
Taxonomy
Original description: Test large, almost circular in outline, coiled in a relatively high trochospire; dorsal side broadly convex, ventral side flat although the chambers are very slightly inflated; equatorial periphery almost circular, slightly lobate; axial periphery angular, acute, with 2 heavily beaded keels on the early chambers of the last whorl, reduced to a single well-developed, distinctly beaded keel in the last chambers; chambers on the dorsal side arranged in 3 dextrally coiled whorls and slowly and regularly increasing in size; the initial chambers are small, inflated and elongated in the direction of coiling, the last whorl is composed of 6 large, typically crescentic chambers; on the ventral side of the chambers are 6, heavily beaded horseshoe-shaped rims, and increase so slowly in size that they thickened and heavily beaded; umbilicus roughly hexagonal in outline, wide, deep, surrounded by slightly raised, heavily beaded ridges, and covered by interiomarginal, umbilical; tegilla with accessory apertures only poorly preserved; wall calcareous, perforate, except for the imperforate keels.
Entries in the Catalog of original descriptions: Globotruncana orientalis, Globotruncana poststephensoni, Globotruncana samuriensis, Globotruncana stephensoni
Character matrix
test outline: | Subcircular | chamber arrangement: | Trochospiral | edge view: | Equally biconvex | aperture: | Umbilical |
sp chamber shape: | Petaloid | coiling axis: | Low | periphery: | Single keel | aperture border: | Tegilla |
umb chbr shape: | - | umbilicus: | Wide | periph margin shape: | Subangular | accessory apertures: | - |
spiral sutures: | Raised beaded | umb depth: | Deep | wall texture: | Finely pustulose | shell porosity: | - |
umbilical or test sutures: | Raised beaded | final-whorl chambers: | 5-7 | N.B. These characters are used for advanced search. N/A - not applicable |
Geological Range:
Last occurrence (top): within G. gansseri zone (71.73-73.80Ma, top in Maastrichtian stage). Data source: [copied from Chronos database]
First occurrence (base): within G. elevata zone (79.33-83.65Ma, base in Campanian stage). Data source: [copied from Chronos database]
Plot of range and occurrence data:
Almogi-Labin, A., Reiss, Z & Caron, M. (1986). Senonian globotruncanidae from Israel. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae. 79(3): 849-895. gs O El-Naggar, Z. R. (1966). Stratigraphy and planktonic foraminifera of the Upper Cretaceous-Lower Tertiary succession in the Esna-Idfu region, Nile Valley, Egypt, U. A. R. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). supplement 2: 1-291. gs Pessagno, E. A. (1967). Upper Cretaceous planktonic foraminifera from the western Gulf Coastal Plain. Palaeontographica Americana. 5: 245-445. gs OReferences:
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Globotruncana orientalis compiled by the pforams@mikrotax project team viewed: 25-3-2025
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Comments (3)
Globotruncana lakrai was the first published
true - another one for the list.
Globotruncana lakrai has been moved out from under schneegansi and is now considered a junior synonym of Globotruncana orientalis.