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Current identification/main database link: Jenkinsina triseriata (Terquem 1882)
Original Description
Test very small, elongate pyramidal in form ; chambers globular, triserial, about twenty-one in number, increasing gradually in size; wall finely perforate ; surface a little uneven; aperture a small, semicircular opening at the base of the last chamber, with an upper lip. Common
Size: length, 0.24 mm.; diameter, 0.11 mm.
Extra details from original publication
This species differs from G. columbiana Howe 1939 in having more chambers which increase much more gradually in size, resulting in a much higher and more slender test.
Bandy, O. L. (1949). Eocene and Oligocene foraminifera from Little Stave Creek, Clarke County, Alabama. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 32(131): 1-210. gs Howe, H. V. (1939). Louisiana Cook Mountain Eocene foraminifera. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Louisiana. 14: 1-122. gs Saito, T., Thompson, P. R. & Breger, D. (1976). Skeletal ultra-microstructure of some elongate-chambered planktonic foraminifera and related species. In, Takayanagi, Y. & Saito, T. (eds) Progress in Micropaleontology, Special Publication. Micropaleontology Press, The American Museum of Natural History, New York 278-304. gsReferences:
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