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Catalog - Globorotalia menardii miotumida Catalog - Globorotalia menardii miotumida

CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Globorotalia menardii (d'Orbigny) subsp. miotumida Jenkins 1960

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Higher levels: pf_cat -> G -> Globorotalia -> Globorotalia menardii miotumida
Other pages this level: << < G. marginodentata, G. marginodentata propelleriformis, G. mariae, G. mariae gratiae, G. mariae mariae, G. marksi, G. martinezi, G. mattseensis, G. mayeri, G. mayeri nympha, G. menardii antarctica, G. menardii fijiensis, G. menardii gibberula, G. menardii jamesbayensis, G. menardii miocenica, G. menardii miotumida, G. menardii multicamerata, G. menardii neoflexuosa, G. menardii panda, G. mineacea, G. minuta, G. minutissima, G. miocenica mediterranea, G. miotumida explicationis, G. miozea, G. miozea acumarginata, G. miozea conoidea, G. miozea rifensis, G. miozea sphericomiozea, G. miroensis, G. mohleri> >>

Globorotalia menardii miotumida

Citation: Globorotalia menardii (d'Orbigny) subsp. miotumida Jenkins 1960
Taxonomic rank: sub-species
Type age (chronostrat): This subspecies is this species is limited to its own zone.
Type locality: Lakes Entrance Oil Shaft, Victoria, Australia. Holotype: from 380 feet.
Type repository: Milan; Micropalaeontological Collection, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra ÒA. DesioÓ, Italy.

Current identification/main database link: Globoconella miotumida (Walters 1965)


Original Description

Test a low trochospire, the umbilical side slightly more convex. Equatorial periphery oval in outline, weakly
lobate. Axial periphery acute, with a well-developed keel. Wall calcareous, finely perforate, smooth, except
for small pustules developed in front of the aperture on the umbilical side. Chambers 13-15, with 4, rarely 5, in
the final whorl, inflated umbilically. Sutures on the spiral side thickened, strongly recurved; umbilical sutures
slightly curved, depressed. Umbilicus small. Aperture a low arch, interiomarginal, extraumbilical.

Size:
Greatest diameter of holotype 0.40 mm.

Extra details from original publication
Remarks: Globorotalia menardii miotumida differs from the other subspecies by having a more compact test, with
only 4 chambers in the final whorl. It is found in 21 of the samples but is rare, like all the planktonic
foraminifera, in the upper part of the shaft.

References:

Jenkins, D. G. (1960). Planktonic foraminifera from the Lakes Entrance oil shaft, Victoria, Australia. Micropaleontology. 6: 345-371. gs


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