WoRMS taxon details
Globigerinoidea Carpenter et al., 1862
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Carpenter, W. B.; Parker, W. K.; Jones, J. R. (1862). Introduction to the Study of the Foraminifera. 319 pp. The Ray Society, London., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/37432 [details] 
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2026). World Foraminifera Database. Globigerinoidea Carpenter et al., 1862. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=465811 on 2026-05-26
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Carpenter, W. B.; Parker, W. K.; Jones, J. R. (1862). Introduction to the Study of the Foraminifera. 319 pp. The Ray Society, London., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/37432 [details]
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context source (PeRMS)
McCulloch, I. (1977). Qualitative observations on Recent foraminiferal tests with emphasis on the eastern Pacific. University of Southern California. Los Angeles., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=tPw_AAAAIAAJ [details] Available for editors 
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additional source Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1987). Foraminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. 970pp., available online at https://books.google.pt/books?id=n_BqCQAAQBAJ [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]additional source Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1987). Foraminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. 970pp., available online at https://books.google.pt/books?id=n_BqCQAAQBAJ [details] Available for editors
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Diagnosis Test trochospiral but later chambers may be enveloping; wall perforate, with numerous small pores or fewer larger ones, surface may be covered with narrow elongate nonlamellar monocrystalline spines with calcite c-axis running lengthwise of the spine; aperture interiomarginal, umbilical, umbilical-extraumbilical, or equatorial, and relatively large secondary sutural apertures also may occur. Eocene to Holocene. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
