Taxonomy
Original description: Test trochoid: lobulate peripherally. Chambers spherical. nearly as elongate as wide: about four or five in last whorl, rapidly increasing in size. Coiling predominantly dextral; sutures depressed, radial. straight to slightly curved spirally and umbilically. Umbilicus medium-sized and deep covered by tegilla with intralaminal and infralaminal accessory apertures in well-preserved specimens. Periphery occasionally with weakly developed double keel which occurs chiefly on the first one or two chambers of the final whorl. but usually keel-less with or without an imperforate peripheral band: nontruncate. Test surface either smooth throughout or somewhat rugose on the earlier chambers; last two or three chambers usually smooth irregardless of previous ornamentation. Primary aperture interiomarginal, umbilical in position. Outer wall except for rugosities, keels, and imperforate peripheraI band. raclial hyaline, perforate: rugosities ultragranular hyaline. imperforate; keels radial hyaline and ultragrnnular hyaline. imperforate; peripheral band radial hyaline imperforate.
Entries in the Catalog of original descriptions: Archaeoglobigerina blowi, Globotruncana pura
Character matrix
| test outline: | Quadrate | chamber arrangement: | Trochospiral | edge view: | - | aperture: | Umbilical-extraumbilical |
| sp chamber shape: | Inflated | coiling axis: | Low-moderate | periphery: | Imperforate band | aperture border: | Thick porticus |
| umb chbr shape: | Inflated | umbilicus: | Narrow | periph margin shape: | Moderately rounded | accessory apertures: | None |
| spiral sutures: | Moderately depressed | umb depth: | Shallow | wall texture: | Moderately muricate | shell porosity: | - |
| umbilical or test sutures: | Moderately depressed | final-whorl chambers: | 4.5-5.5 | N.B. These characters are used for advanced search. N/A - not applicable | |||
Geological Range:
Last occurrence (top): within A. mayaroensis zone (67.64-69.27Ma, top in Maastrichtian stage). Data source: Caron, 1985
First occurrence (base): within Dicarinella asymetrica zone (83.65-85.60Ma, base in Santonian stage). Data source: [copied from Chronos database]
Plot of range and occurrence data:
Pessagno, E. A. (1967). Upper Cretaceous planktonic foraminifera from the western Gulf Coastal Plain. Palaeontographica Americana. 5: 245-445. gs O Robaszynski, F., Caron, M., Gonzales Donoso, J. M., Wonders, A. A. H. & the European Working Group on Planktonic Foraminifera (1984). Atlas of Late Cretaceous globotruncanids. Revue de Micropaléontologie. 26(3-4): 145-305. gsReferences:

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