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



Cancris lateralis Finlay



Hornibrook et al. 1989, Fig. 17.24 (Holotype): 0.63 mm
.

Reference: Hornibrook, Brazier & Strong 1989, p.88, Fig. 17:24 (Holotype).

Synonymy: 1940, Trans. Roy. Soc. N.Z. 64(4): 463, pl. 64, fig. 105-107;

1961, Hornibrook, N.Z. Geol. Surv. paleont. bull. 34(1): 307, pl. 15, fig. 329, 333, 334.

Description: Broad, flattened, partially evolute dorsally, involute ventrally, chambers subtriangular, last chamber covering umbilicus.

Distribution: Whaingaroan to Kapitean (typical form).

Comment: A smaller, more compact form, C. lateralisminima (Srinivasan, 1966, Trans. Roy. Soc. N.Z. geol. 3(17): 247, pl. 4, fig. 1-3) occurs in the Runangan and Lower Whaingaroan. Also C. compressa Finlay, (1940) (Bortonian to Whaingaroan) and C. laevinflatus Hornibrook, 1961 (Whaingaroan 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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