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Current identification/main database link: Globorotalia truncatulinoides (d’Orbigny, 1839)
Original Description
Coquille. - Suborbiculaire, convexe, pointillée, à pourtour très-caréné sans être tranchant, tronquée ou même un peu concave en dessus; très-convexe, conique, à sommet ombiliqué et évidée sur les côtés en dessous. Spire déprimée et concave, composée de trois tours tres- séparés sans ètre convexes. Loges au nombre de quatre ou quatre et demie au dernier tour, triangulaires, larges, droites, simples en dessous, bordées sur la suture spirale en dessus, elles ne forment aucune saillie, et la dernière est très-carénée au pourtour de la bouche. Ouverture en fente, au milieu de la largeur de la dernière loge, contre le retour de la spire. Couleur blanc uniforme,
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Extra details from original publication
Blow, W. H. (1969). Late middle Eocene to Recent planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy. In, Bronnimann, P. & Renz, H. H. (eds) Proceedings of the First International Conference on Planktonic Microfossils, Geneva, 1967. E J Brill, Leiden 380-381. gs d'Orbigny, A. (1839b). Foraminifères des Iles Canaries. In, Barker-Webb, P. & Berthelot, S. (eds) Histoire naturelle des Iles Canaries. (2): 120-146. gsReferences:

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