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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Anomalina bentonensis Morrow 1934

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Higher levels: pf_cat -> A -> Anomalina -> Anomalina bentonensis
Other pages this level: A. bentonensis, A. breggiensis, A. lorneiana trocoidea, A. lorneiana typica, A. luxorensis, A. roberti

Anomalina bentonensis

Citation: Anomalina bentonensis Morrow 1934
Taxonomic rank: species
Type specimens: Plate 30, figures 4a-b; 75381
Type age (chronostrat): Cenomanian
Type locality: Sec. 31, T. 21 S., R. 22 W., Hodgeman County, KS
Type repository: Washington; USNM

Linked specimens: USNM-75381

Current identification/main database link: Laeviella bentonensis (Morrow, 1934)


Original Description

Test small, nearly symmetrical, slightly involute, periphery broadly rounded, earlier whorls partly exposed on both sides at the center; chambers inflated, increasng rather rapidly in size as added, quite uniform in shape, numbering 7-9 in last whorl; sutures strongly impressed, usually curving backward as they pass over the periphery; wall conspicuously perforated; aperture peripheral passing onto the dorsal side.

Size:
Diamter of holotype 0.4 mm., thickness 0.2 m

Extra details from original publication
This species differs from any known to the writer by being more nearly planispiral and bilaterally symmetrical and in having a broad and evenly rounded periphery.
This species has been found only in the Greenhorn formation where it is common locally.

References:

Morrow, A. L. (1934). Morrow, A. L. (1934). Foraminifera and ostracoda from the Upper Cretaceous of Kansas. Journal of Paleontology. 8: 186-205. Journal of Paleontology. 8: 186-205. gs


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