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



Globigerina triloculinoides Plummer



Hornibrook et al. 1989, Fig. 24.4: 0.42 mm
.

Reference: Hornibrook, Brazier & Strong 1989, p.127, Fig. 24:4.

Synonymy: 1926, Bull. Univ. Texas 2644: 134, 135, pl. 8, fig. 10a-c (Subbotina).

Description: Distinguished by the small typically tri-Iobed form, with three to three and a half chambers in the final whorl; chambers usually increasing rapidly in size, surfaces distinctly porous, aperture, slit-like, umbilical.

Distribution: Teurian to Mangaorapan.

Comment: A worldwide Paleocene - Lower Eocene species. See also G. linaperta.


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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