Catalog - Tenuitella kyrtomina Catalog - Tenuitella kyrtomina

CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Tenuitella kyrtomina Loeblich&Tappan 1994

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Higher levels: pf_cat -> T -> Tenuitella -> Tenuitella kyrtomina
Other pages this level: T. fleisheri, T. jamesi, T. kyrtomina, T. neobrevispira, T. neoclemenciae, T. postcretacea pieste

Tenuitella kyrtomina

Citation: Tenuitella kyrtomina Loeblich&Tappan 1994
taxonomic rank: Species
Type specimens: Holotype (USNM 470721)
Type age (chronostrat): Pleistocene
Type locality: sample V-148 at 73.12 m. southwest of Bonaparte Depression, north of Cape Lon­donderry, southern Timor Sea, 1960 Sahul Shelf Cruise I, Malila.
Type repository: Washington; USNM

Linked specimens: USNM-470721

Current identification:


Original Description

Diagnosis. A species of Tenuitella with chambers swollen at their proximal end, producing an angular peripheral outline.

Description. Test tiny, consisting of about two and a half whorls of chambers, and four and one-half chambers in the final whorl, periphery rounded; chambers increasing rapidly in size as added. flattened on spiral side, thickest in their proximal one-third. inflated on umbilical side; urn bilicus depressed; sutures radial. slightly curved, depressed, constricted; wall calcareous, surface smooth; aperture an arch extending from the umbilicus nearly to the periphery, with an overhanging subrectangular lip.

Size:
Diameter of holotype 0.19 mm, thickness 0.10 mm.

Etymology:
From the Greek, kvrtos, bent. humped, kyrtoma. curve, swelling, plus ina. diminutive suffix, with reference to the bent or angular profile of the cham bers.

References:

Loeblich, A. & Tappan, H. (1994). Foraminifera of the Sahul shelf and Timor Sea. Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, Special Publication. 31: 1-661. gs O


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