 Hornibrook et al. 1989, Fig. 20.18 (Holotype): 0.85 mm |
Reference: Hornibrook, Brazier & Strong 1989, p.86, Fig. 20:18 (Holotype).
Synonymy: 1940, Cancris amplus, Trans. Roy. Soc. N.Z. 69(4): 463, pl. 64, fig. 92-94;
1961, Hornibrook, N.Z. Geol. Surv. paleont. bull. 34(1): 120, 121, pl. 16, fig. 335-337.
Description: Moderately large, smooth and glossy, partly evolute dorsally, involute ventrally, chambers highly inflated and strongly overlapping with an imperforate area on the terminal face.
Comparison: Distinguished by the characteristically tear-shaped, elongate chambers.
Distribution: Waitakian to Waipipian.
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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