 Hornibrook et al. 1989, Fig. 22.7: 0.61 mm |
Reference: Hornibrook, Brazier & Strong 1989, p.98, Fig. 22:7.
Synonymy: 1866, Novara-Exped, geol. 2(2): 258, 259, pl. 7, fig. 105, 106;
1980, Srinivasan & Sharma, Schwager's Car Nicobar Foraminifera in the Reports oj the Novara Expedition-A Revision. New Delhi, p. 56, pl. 8, fig. 11-13 (Cibicidoides, Cibicides).
Description: Distinguished by the large, flattened test, involute and gently convex dorsally, partly evolute ventrally; sutures limbate, strongly recurved, coarsely perforate in between; a blunt keel on early part of final whorl.
Distribution: Common Altonian to Tongaporutuan to Kapitean? Rare in Wanganui Series, also Recent. Characteristic of bathyal assemblages.
Comment: Smaller than P. renzi Cushman & Stainforth, with less limbate sutures.
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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