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Current identification/main database link: Dentigloborotalia Brummer 1988
Original Description
Juvenile stage planispiral after abrupt 90° shift in coiling direction at proloculus-juvenile stage boundary, third and subsequent chambers coiled around proloculus-deuteroconch complex, proloculus on umbilical side; umbilicus open; aperture of deuteroconch opposite proloculus deuteroconch suture, subsequently equatorial with umbilical flange curving inward to spiral side; wall non-spinose, pustulate, finely macroperforate: pustules shark tooth-like, pointing away from aperture; pores non-sutural, irregularly distributed.
Neanic stage trochospiral; umbilicus closing producing pseudo-umbilicus; aperture migrating to umbilical-extra~mbilical position, inward-curved part of flange reduced; chamber wall peripherally perforate; otherwise as juvenile
Adult stage with rounded axial chamber periphery; otherwise as late neanic stage.
Terminal stage as adult.
Etymology:
Extra details from original publication
Brummer, G. J. A. (1988b). Comparative ontogeny and species definition of planktonic foraminfers: A case study of Dentigloborotalia anfracta n. gen. In, Brummer, G. J. A. & Kroon, D. (eds) Planktonic Foraminifers as Tracers of Ocean-Climate History. Free University Press, Amsterdam 51-75. gsReferences:

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