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| Steineckia steinecki Georgescu 2009 |
Current identification:
Original Description
Diagnosis. Test is nannoperforate to microperforate, with large pore mounds and without periapertural pustulose area.
Description. Test is biserial throughout. Earlier chambers are globular, the last-formed ones reniform. Periphery is broadly rounded, without peripheral structures. Aperture is an arch at the base of the last-formed chamber and is bor- dered by two well-developed symmetrical anges. Chamber surface ornamented is with large pore mounds. Test wall is calcitic, hyaline, nannoperforate to microperforate.
Etymology:
Extra details from original publication
Stratigraphic range. Upper Turonian (lower part of the Whiteinella baltica Biozone).
Geographic distribution. South Atlantic (Falkland Plateau).
Georgescu, M. D. (2009b). Taxonomic revision and evolutionary classification of the biserial Cretaceous planktic foraminiferal genus Laeviheterohelix Nederbragt, 1991. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas. 26: 315-334. gsReferences:

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