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Current identification/main database link: Neogallitellia Loeblich & Tappan, 1986
See also: Neogallitellia - proposed replacement name;
Original Description
Description. Test tiny, elongote, chambers globular and rapidly enlarging as added, arrangement triserial throughout, or with chamber proliferation in the final stage. sutures deeply depressed, margins lobulate: wall calcareous. hyaline, thin and translucent, surface smooth to grainy in appearance at a magnification of 500 x. fine pores sparsely scattered over the surface. and not elevated on pore mounds; aperture a simple rounded and umbilical arch at the base of the final chamber, without a lip.
Etymology:
Extra details from original publication
Pleistocene to Holocene; Pacific; lndian Ocean; Gulf of Mexico.
Remarks. Differs from Guembelitria and Chiloguembelitria in the very thin. hyaline, smooth and sparsely perforate wall, in the occasional chamber proliferation, and simple open aperture that has no bordering lip, and differs from the former also in the wall lacking pore mounds. The mid-Cretaceous Guembelitriella also has chamber proliferation, but differs in the finely pustulose surface with pores between the pustules. and in the low arched aperture with bordering lip.
Editors' Notes
Loeblich, A. R. & Tappan, H. (1986). Some new and revised genera and families of hyaline calcareous Foraminiferida (Protozoa). Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 105: 239-265. gsReferences:
Gallitellia compiled by the pforams@mikrotax project team viewed: 6-11-2024
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