Nomenclature
original description
Blow, W. H.; Banner, F. T. (1962). The mid-Tertiary (Upper Eocene to Aquitanian) Globigerinaceae. In: Eames, F.E. et al. (Editors), Fundamentals of mid-Tertiary Stratigraphical Correlation. <em>Cambridge University Press.</em> 61-151.
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original description
(of Towella Brönnimann & Whittaker, 1991) Brönnimann, P.; Whittaker, J. E. (1991). On minute planktonic foraminifera from the lower Pliocene of southern Tuscany, central Italy, and from the Oligocene of the southwest Pacific. <em>Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève.</em> 10: 115-122. [details]
basis of record
Gross, O. (2001). Foraminifera, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 60-75 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Other
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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additional source
Pearson, P.N., Kucera, M. (2018). Taxonomy, biostratigraphy, and phylogeny of Oligocene Turborotalita. <em>Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research Special Publication.</em> 46: 385-392. [details]
Present
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Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test inflated, subglobular, coiled in a low to flat trochospire, chambers rounded to ovate, enlarging gradually as added, early stage umbilicate but final chamber ampullate and extended over the umbilicus on the umbilical side, sutures radial, depressed, periphery rounded, peripheral outline lobulate; wall calcareous, thin, finely perforate, finely spinose but spines may be broken; primary aperture in the early stage a low interiomarginal, extraumbilical-umbilical arch, in the final stage replaced by small accessory infralaminal apertures at the umbilical margin of the ampullate chamber that covers the umbilicus and previous apertures. U. Miocene (Messinian) to Holocene; Atlantic; Pacific. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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