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Marginotruncana renzi


Classification: pf_mesozoic -> Globotruncanidae -> Marginotruncana -> Marginotruncana renzi
Sister taxa: M. angusticarenata, M. caronae, M. coronata, M. desioi, M. manaurensis, M. marginata, M. paraconcavata, M. pileoliformis, M. pseudolinneiana, M. renzi, M. schneegansi, M. sigali, M. sigmoconcavata, M. sinuosa, M. tarfayaensis, M. undulata, M. sp.

Taxonomy

Citation: Marginotruncana renzi (Gandolfi, 1942)
Taxonomic rank: species
Basionym: Globotruncana renzi

Type images:

Original description: Forma intermedia tra la G. apenninica Renz e la G. linnei (d'Orbigny); giri interni bicarenati o con una callosita che prelude alia doppia carena, giro esterno unicarenato. Il listello carenale e generalmente piu larga e basso che nella G. apenninica, talvolta pustuloso; decorre un po' obliquo e ondulato. La parte ombelicale ha un largo ombelico, le camere sono piu o meno convesse, piuttosto allungate come nella G. linnei. Ogni camera e rigorosamente orlata dalla biforcazione inferiore del listello carenale, che a decorso un po'sigmoidale s'ispessisce attorno all'ombelico. Da notare che le carene interne hanno un doppio listello carenale piu o meno riavvicinato, spesso solo visibile in sezione, ma talvolta anche all'estemo al principio dell 'ultimo giro.

Entries in the Catalog of original descriptions: Globotruncana renzi


Emended description:
Translated from Italian: Test low trochospiral, commonly symmetrically biconvex; equatorial periphery slightly lobate; axial periphery angular, with two closely spaced keels becoming a single keel on the last few chamber (s). Chambers crescent-shaped, later becoming petaloid on spiral side; trapezoidal, elongated in the direction of coiling somewhat inflated on umbilical side; 5-6 chambers in final whorl. On spiral side sutures curved, oblique between the early chambers, perpendicolar to the preceding spiral suture in the younger part of the test and raised. On umbilical side the sutures are U-shaped, raised and continuing along the umbilicus as periumbilical ridges. Umbilicus wide and shallow. Aperture interiomarginal, extraumbilical-umbilical, with portici. [copied from Chronos database]

Character matrix
test outline:Circularchamber arrangement:Trochospiraledge view:Equally biconvexaperture:Umbilical-extraumbilical
sp chamber shape:Petaloidcoiling axis:Lowperiphery:Double keelaperture border:Thin porticus
umb chbr shape:Trapezoidalumbilicus:Wideperiph margin shape:Subangularaccessory apertures:None
spiral sutures:Raised beadedumb depth:Shallowwall texture:Smoothshell porosity:
umbilical or test sutures:Raised beadedfinal-whorl chambers:5-6 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:

References:

Gandolfi, R. (1942). Ricerche micropaleontologiche e stratigraphfiche sulla Scaglia e sul flysch Cretacici dei Dintorni di Balerna (Canton Ticino). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia. 48: 1-160. gs

Pessagno, E. A. (1967). Upper Cretaceous planktonic foraminifera from the western Gulf Coastal Plain. Palaeontographica Americana. 5: 245-445. gs O

Postuma, J. A. (1971). Manual of planktonic foraminifera. Elsevier for Shell Group, The Hague. 1-406. gs


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