Taxonomy
Original description: Diagnosis: A moderately inflated species of Plummerita with 4-5 chambers in the final whorl. Tubulospines developed only in last three chambers, paired. one at each angle of the periphery and oblique to the plane of coiling. Ornament of meridionally arra nged ridges strongly developed.
Description: Test a low trochospire consisting of about two whorls. Outline in spiral and umbilical views lobulate then tubulospinate; five chambers in final whorl, subglobular at first, gradually increasing in size, with last two chambers each produced into two tubulospines at opposite angles to the mid-line of the periphery. Lower periphery rounded in edge view, upper margin tubulospinose. Sutures moderatelly depressed, curved. Wall calcareous, finely perforate, test surface ornamented by strong, meridionally arranged ridges which extend to the tubulospines. Umbilicus shallow, aperture appears to be an interiomarginal, umbilical-extraumbilical arch; tegillum not preserved.
Entries in the Catalog of original descriptions: Plummerita kennerleyi
Character matrix
test outline: | Stellate | chamber arrangement: | Trochospiral | edge view: | Inequally biconvex | aperture: | Umbilical |
sp chamber shape: | coiling axis: | Very low | periphery: | N/A | aperture border: | Tegilla | |
umb chbr shape: | Inflated | umbilicus: | Narrow | periph margin shape: | Broadly rounded | accessory apertures: | N/A |
spiral sutures: | Strongly depressed | umb depth: | Deep | wall texture: | Meridional costellae | shell porosity: | Finely Perforate: 1-2.5µm |
umbilical or test sutures: | Strongly 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: [copied from Chronos database]
First occurrence (base): within A. mayaroensis zone (67.64-69.27Ma, base in Maastrichtian stage). Data source: [copied from Chronos database]
Plot of range and occurrence data:
Whittaker, J. E. (1980). Revision of Plummerita Brönnimann (Foraminiferida) and a new Maastrichtian species from Ecuador. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). 34(4): 289-297. gsReferences:
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Plummerita kennerleyi compiled by the pforams@mikrotax project team viewed: 13-2-2025
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