 Hornibrook et al. 1989, Fig. 26.13a-c: 0.32 mm |
Reference: Hornibrook, Brazier & Strong 1989, p.127, Fig. 26:13a-c.
Synonymy: 1957, Globorotalia obesa, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus. 215: 119, pl. 29, fig. 2a-3;
1971, G. (Turborotalia) cf. obesa, Jenkins, N.Z. Geol. Surv. paleont. bull. 42: 127, pl. 13, fig. 351-353;
1983, Globigerinella obesa, Kennett & Srinivasan, Neogene Planktonic Foraminifera, pp. 234-236, pl. 59, fig. 2-5, text-fig. 26.
Description: Distinguished by the finely porous smooth or finely hispid test coiled in a single plane, with four rapidly increasing lobulate chambers in the final whorl and a high arched widely open aperture which is mainly umbilically situated, extending to the periphery.
Distribution: Upper Whaingaroan to Waitakian.
Comment: The specimen in Fig. 26:13 was illustrated by Jenkins as Globorotalia (Turborotalia) cf. obesa.
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)."
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DOI 10.21420/G2M63W.
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