Taxonomy
Original description: The smooth- to rough-walled, calcareous hyaline test is trochospirally coiled. Its small early chambers are globular, inflated, and globigerine-like. The last few chambers are elongated and extend into a relatively small umbilicus. The aperture is rounded interiomarginal, and opens into the umbilicus. Short apertural flaps extend into the umbilicus but do not form an umbilical cover-plate. Family Globotruncanidae.
Entries in the Catalog of original descriptions: Hedbergella, Blefuscuiana, Lilliputianella
Distinguishing features:
Parent taxon (Hedbergellidae): Test trochospirally coiled, primary aperture interiomarginal, extraumbilical-umbilical, with prominent apertural lip, apertures of earlier chambers remain visible around the umbilical region; no sutural secondary apertures.
This taxon: Test trochospiral, wall finely perforate, outer wall weakly to densely covered with perforation cones or perforation ridges (coalescing perforation cones); umbilical and spiral sutures depressed, radial, straight to slightly curved; aperture an interiomarginal extraumbilical-umbilical arch with a thin imperforate rim, rarely with a narrow bordering lip.
Emended description:
Character matrix
test outline: | - | chamber arrangement: | Trochospiral | edge view: | - | aperture: | - |
sp chamber shape: | - | coiling axis: | - | periphery: | N/A | aperture border: | - |
umb chbr shape: | - | umbilicus: | - | periph margin shape: | - | accessory apertures: | - |
spiral sutures: | - | umb depth: | - | wall texture: | - | shell porosity: | - |
umbilical or test sutures: | - | final-whorl chambers: | 4-9 | N.B. These characters are used for advanced search. N/A - not applicable |
Geological Range:
Last occurrence (top): at top of P. appenninica zone (100% up, 100.5Ma, in Albian stage). Data source: Total of ranges of the species in this database
First occurrence (base): within H. sigali zone (130.37-134.74Ma, base in Valanginian stage). Data source: Total of ranges of species in this database
Plot of range and occurrence data:
Banner, F. T. & Desai, D. (1988). A review and revision of the Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Globigerinina,with especial reference to the Aptian assemblages of Speeton (North Yorkshire, England). Journal of Micropalaeontology. 7: 143-185. gs Huber, B. T. & Leckie, R. M. (2011). Planktic foraminiferal species turnover across deep-sea Aptian/Albian boundary sections. Journal of Foraminiferal Research. 41: 53-95. gs Loeblich, A. R. & Tappan, H. (1988). Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification (Volume I-II). Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York. 1-1059. gsReferences:
Hedbergella compiled by the pforams@mikrotax project team viewed: 5-10-2024
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Comments (2)
Need to add Hedbergella ventriosa Fuchs, 1971
Hi Brian
Right- I see we have not even got it in the catalog, or the other species described in the same paper. I have a copy though so will put them in asap.
Jeremy