Taxonomy
Original description: DIAGNOSE : Face dorsale plane ou legerement concave; face ventrale tres convexe. Loges tres étirées dans le sens de l'enroulement et bordées par un bourrelet sutural et périombilical sur la face ventrale. L'angle de raccordement entre les deux faces est supérieur à 60°
DESCRIPTION : Test calcaire hyalin perforé bilamellaire, g enroulement trochospiralé. Les deux faces sont fortement dissymétriques, la face dorsale étant plane ou 1égérement concave, la face ventrale fortement convexe ; l'angle de raccordement entre les deux faces oscille entre 60° et 80°.
Ouverture primaire intériomarginale ombilicale-extraombilicale. Bandeau carénal périphérique imperforé, comportant deux carénes trés proches. Les loges, au nombre de 4 g 6 au dernier tour, sont fortement étirées dans le sens de l'enroulement; sur la face ventrale, les sutures sont sigmoides et ourlées par un bourrelet sutural et périombilical se raccordant/t la caréne ventrale. Les sutures de la face spirale sont obliques et également ourlées par un bourrelet. L'ombilic relativement large est en partie recouvert par des expansions lamelleuses (<< tegilla >>) issues de la portion adombilicale des loges; il existe des ouvertures accessoires infraou intralaminales, mais non des ouvertures supplémentaires suturales.
Entries in the Catalog of original descriptions: Marginotruncana paraconcavata
Emended description:
Character matrix
test outline: | Subcircular | chamber arrangement: | Trochospiral | edge view: | Planoconvex | aperture: | - |
sp chamber shape: | - | coiling axis: | Low | periphery: | Double keel | aperture border: | Coalescing portici |
umb chbr shape: | Trapezoidal | umbilicus: | Wide | periph margin shape: | Subangular | accessory apertures: | None |
spiral sutures: | Raised beaded | umb depth: | Deep | wall texture: | Smooth | shell porosity: | Microperforate: <1µm |
umbilical or test sutures: | Raised beaded | final-whorl chambers: | 4-6 | N.B. These characters are used for advanced search. N/A - not applicable |
Geological Range:
Last occurrence (top): within D. asymetrica zone (83.65-85.60Ma, top in Santonian stage). Data source: [copied from Chronos database]
First occurrence (base): within H. helvetica zone (92.51-93.52Ma, base in Turonian stage). Data source: [copied from Chronos database]
Plot of range and occurrence data:
Donze, P., Porthalult, B., Thomel, G. & de Villoutryeys, O. (1970). Le Senonien inferieur de Puget-Theniers (Alpes-Maritimes) et sa microfaune. Geobios. 3(2): 41-106. gs Huber, B. T., Petrizzo, M. R., Watkins, D. K., Haynes, S. J. & MacLeod, K. G. (2017a). Correlation of Turonian continental margin and deep-sea sequences in the subtropical Indian Ocean sediments by integrated planktonic foraminiferal and calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy. Newsletters on Stratigraphy. 50: 141-185. gs Robaszynski, F., Caron, M. & le Groupe de Travail Européen des Foraminifères Planctoniques (1979). Atlas des Foraminiféres Planctoniques du Crétace Moyen (Mer Boréale et Téthys). Cahiers de Micropaléontologie. 1 & 2: 1-185. gsReferences:
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Marginotruncana paraconcavata compiled by the pforams@mikrotax project team viewed: 25-4-2025
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