 Hornibrook et al. 1989, Fig. 27.14a-c: 0.34 mm |
Reference: Hornibrook, Brazier & Strong 1989, p.133, Fig. 27:14a-c.
Synonymy: 1959, G. scitula praescitula, Blow, Am. paleont. bull. 39(178): 221, pl. 19, fig. 128a-c;
1961, G. miozea small var., Hornibrook, N.Z. Geol. Surv. paleont. bull. 34(1): 144, pl. 22, fig. 450, 543, 454;
1971, G. (Turborotalia) praescitula, Jenkins, Ibid 42: 129, 130, pl. 14, fig. 392-394;
1972, G. scitula praescitula, Scott, N.Z. jl. geol. geophys. 15(1): 50-52, fig. 6;
1983, G. (Globoconella) praescitula, Kennett & Srinivasan, Neogene Planktonic Foraminifera, p. 108, pl. 25, fig. 4-6, text-fig. 13.
Description: Distinguished from G. zealandica by being more compressed with angular, unkeeled margins, four chambers in the final whorl, ventral sutures radial and dorsal sutures sinuous, recurved, surface finely porous. Distinguished from G. miozea by its smaller size, more rounded margin, thinner walls, and fewer chambers.
Distribution: Altonian to Clifdenian to Waiauan?.
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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