GNS Science Manual of New Zealand Permian to Pleistocene
Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy


Key species of New Zealand fossil foraminifera:
descriptions from
"Manual of New Zealand Permian to Pleistocene Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy" by Hornibrook, Brazier and Strong, 1989



Acarinina mckannai (White)



Hornibrook et al. 1989, Fig. 24.8: 0.55 mm
.

Reference: Hornibrook, Brazier & Strong 1989, p.125, Fig. 24:8.

Synonymy: 1928, Globigerina mckannai, Jl. paleont., 2: 194, pl. 27, fig. 16a-c;

1971, Globorotalia (Acarinina) mckannai, Jenkins, N.Z. Geol. Surv. paleont. bull. 42: 82, 83, pl. 3, fig. 89-93 (Muricoglobigerina).

Description: Distinguished by the low trochospirally enrolled form with an open umbilicus often surrounded by coarse blunt spiney projections (muricae), surfaces rough and prickly; periphery rounded and unkeeled.

Distribution: Upper Teurian to lower Bortonian.


Cite this publication as: "Strong CP, Raine JI, Terezow M. 2018. Key species of New Zealand fossil foraminifera: descriptions from "Manual of New Zealand Permian to Pleistocene Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy" by Hornibrook, Brazier and Strong, 1989. Lower Hutt (NZ): GNS Science. (GNS Science miscellaneous series; 123)."
ISSN 1172-2886, ISBN 978-1-98-853088-8, DOI 10.21420/G2M63W.

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