Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Bolli, H. M. (1957). Planktonic foraminifera from the Oligocene-Miocene Cipero and Lengua formations of Trinidad, BWI. <em>Bulletin of the U.S. National Museum.</em> Vol. 215: 97-131., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32376604 page(s): p. 117 [details]
basis of record
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]
additional source
Coxall, H.K. & Spezzaferri, S. (2018). Taxonomy, biostratigraphy, and phylogeny of Oligocene Catapsydrax, Globorotaloides, and Protentelloides. <em>Cushman Foundation Special Publication.</em> 46: 79-124. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test subglobular to somewhat compressed in a low trochospiral coil, about five to six ovate to spherical chambers in the last whorl, final chamber may be inflated and offset to partly or completely cover the umbilicus; wall calcareous, surface distinctly cancellate, with pore pits and ridges; primary aperture an interiomarginal, umbilical-extraumbilical arch that becomes nearly umbilical in the final stage. M. Eocene (U. Lutetian) to U. Miocene; tropical and subtropical, cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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