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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Globoquadrina altispira subsp. globosa Bolli 1957

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Other pages this level: G. altispira conica, G. altispira globosa, G. asanoi, G. dehiscens praedehiscens, G. globularis, G. himiensis, G. kagaensis, G. langhiana, G. larmeui, G. obesa, G. pachyderma pacifica, G. palmerae, G. patriciae, G. pozonensis, G. primitiva, G. pseudofoliata, G. quadraria advena, G. sellii, G. subdehiscens, G. tripartita laxispira, G. tripartita tricamerata

Globoquadrina altispira globosa

Citation: Globoquadrina altispira subsp. globosa Bolli 1957
Taxonomic rank: sub-species
Type specimens: Holotype P5626; figured paratype P5627
Type age (chronostrat): Catapsydrax dissimilis zone
Type locality: Holotype (USNM P5626) and figured paratype (USNM P5627) from the type locality of the Catapsydrax dissimilis zone, Trinidad, sample Bo 267 (TTOC 201216).
Type repository: Washington; USNM

Linked specimens: USNM-5627 USNM-5626

Current identification/main database link: Dentoglobigerina globosa (Bolli, 1957)


Original Description

Shape of test medium to high trochospiral ; equatorial periphery distinctly lobate. Wall calcareous, perforate, surface finely pitted, with short spines on well preserved specimens (figs. l0a-c). Chambers spherical to very slightly compressed laterally; 15-20, arranged in 3-4 whorls; the 5-6 chambers of the last whorl increase moderately in size. Sutures on spiral side radial, depressed; on umbilical side radial, depressed. Umbilicus fairly wide, deep. Aperture high, covered above by an elongate, toothlike flap; interiomarginal, umbilical. Coiling random in the Catapsydrax dissimilis zone, later becoming predominantly sinistral (as is also Globoquadrina altispira altispira and Globoquadrina dehiscens; Bolli, 1951).

Size:
Largest diameter of holotype 0.7 mm.

Extra details from original publication
Stratigraphic range (in Cipero and Lengua formations): Catapsydrax dissimilis zone to Globigerinatella insueta zone and Globorotalia fohsi robusta zone to Globorotalia menardii zone.

Remarks: Globoguadrina aitispira globosa, new subspecies, is distinguished from G. aitispira aitispira (Cushman and Jarvis) by having more globular chambers.

References:

Bolli, H. M. (1957b). Planktonic foraminifera from the Oligocene-Miocene Cipero and Lengua formations of Trinidad, B.W.I. In, Loeblich, A. R. , Jr., Tappan, H., Beckmann, J. P., Bolli, H. M., Montanaro Gallitelli & E. Troelsen, J. C. (eds) Studies in Foraminifera. U.S. National Museum Bulletin . 215: 97-123. gs

Wade, B. S., Pearson, P. N., Olsson, R. K., Fraass, A. J., Leckie, R. M. & Hemleben, C. (2018c). Taxonomy, biostratigraphy, and phylogeny of Oligocene and Lower Miocene Dentoglobigerina and Globoquadrina. In, Wade, B. S., Olsson, R. K., Pearson, P. N., Huber, B. T. & Berggren, W. A. (eds) Atlas of Oligocene Planktonic Foraminifera. Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, Special Publication . 46(Chap 11): 331-384. gs


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