 Hornibrook et al. 1989, Fig. 15.12: 1.5 mm |
Reference: Hornibrook, Brazier & Strong 1989, p.101, Fig. 15:12.
Synonymy: 1939, Trans. Roy. Soc. NZ. 69(1): 97-98, pl. 13, fig. 36; Tritaxilina languida, Ibid, p. 98, pl. 13, fig, 37-39.
Description: Trochospiral with up to about 4 chambers in final whorls, reducing in number in strongly tapering juvenile whorls, aperture usually at base of final chamber, sometimes terminal, sutures thickened and raised in a ropey pattern.
Distribution: Mangaorapan to Tangapurutuan.
Comment: Finlay separated Eocene specimens as T. languida from T. zealandica in the Oligocene and Miocene. They are not separated here. The specimen figured is from the Mangaorapan.
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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