Foraminifera taxon details
Paragloborotalia Cifelli, 1982 †
721436 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:721436)
accepted
Genus
Globorotalia opima subsp. opima Bolli, 1957 † accepted as Paragloborotalia opima (Bolli, 1957) † (type by original designation)
Globorotalia (Jenkinsella) Kennett & Srinivasan, 1983 † · unaccepted (Subjective junior synonym Opinion...)
Subjective junior synonym Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987
- Species Paragloborotalia acrostoma (Wezel, 1966) †
- Species Paragloborotalia bella (Jenkins, 1967) †
- Species Paragloborotalia birnageae (Blow, 1959) †
- Species Paragloborotalia continuosa (Blow, 1959) †
- Species Paragloborotalia griffinoides Olsson & Pearson, 2006 †
- Species Paragloborotalia incognita (Walters, 1965) †
- Species Paragloborotalia kugleri (Bolli, 1957) †
- Species Paragloborotalia lefkaraensis Hakyemez & Toker, 2010 †
- Species Paragloborotalia mayeri (Cushman & Ellisor, 1939) †
- Species Paragloborotalia nana (Bolli, 1957) †
- Species Paragloborotalia nympha (Jenkins, 1967) †
- Species Paragloborotalia opima (Bolli, 1957) †
- Species Paragloborotalia pseudocontinuosa (Jenkins, 1967) †
- Species Paragloborotalia pseudokugleri (Blow, 1969) †
- Species Paragloborotalia semivera (Hornibrook, 1961) †
- Species Paragloborotalia siakensis (LeRoy, 1939) †
- Species Paragloborotalia barisanensis (LeRoy, 1939) † accepted as Globorotalia barisanensis LeRoy, 1939 † accepted as Globorotalia peripheroacuta Blow & Banner, 1966 † accepted as Fohsella peripheroacuta (Blow & Banner, 1966) † (Opinion of Mikrotax http://mikrotax.org/pforams/)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Cifelli, R. L. (1982). Early occurrences and some phylogenetic implications of spiny, honeycomb textured planktonic foraminifera. <em>The Journal of Foraminiferal Research.</em> 12(2): 105-115., available online at https://doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.12.2.105
page(s): p. 114 [details]
page(s): p. 114 [details]
Diagnosis Test trochospiral, slightly flattened spiral side, about two and a half whorls and about four to five globular chambers in...
Diagnosis Test trochospiral, slightly flattened spiral side, about two and a half whorls and about four to five globular chambers in the final whorl, sutures radial, depressed, periphery rounded, peripheral outline lobulate; wall calcareous, perforate, surface pustulose, cancellate, with a pore in the center of the fields between the polygonal ridges; aperture a low interiomarginal, umbilical to extraumbilical arch, bordered by a rim. U. Oligocene (Chattian) to M. Miocene (Serravallian); cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2021). World Foraminifera Database. Paragloborotalia Cifelli, 1982 †. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=721436 on 2025-11-20
Date
action
by
original description
Cifelli, R. L. (1982). Early occurrences and some phylogenetic implications of spiny, honeycomb textured planktonic foraminifera. <em>The Journal of Foraminiferal Research.</em> 12(2): 105-115., available online at https://doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.12.2.105
page(s): p. 114 [details]
original description (of Globorotalia (Jenkinsella) Kennett & Srinivasan, 1983 †) Kennett, J. P.; Srinivasan, M. S. (1983). Neogene Planktonic Foraminifera: A Phylogenetic Atlas. <em>Hutchinson Ross Publishing Company, Stroudsberg, Pennsylvania.</em>
page(s): p. 171 [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 Leckie, R. M., Wade, B. S., Pearson, P. N., Fraass, A. J., King, D. J., Olsson, R. K., Premoli Silva, I., Spezzaferri, S., Berggren, W. A. (2018). Taxonomy, biostratigraphy, and phylogeny of Oligocene and early Miocene <i>Paragloborotalia</i> and <i>Parasubbotina</i>. <em>Cushman Foundation Special Publication.</em> 46: 125-178. [details]
page(s): p. 114 [details]
original description (of Globorotalia (Jenkinsella) Kennett & Srinivasan, 1983 †) Kennett, J. P.; Srinivasan, M. S. (1983). Neogene Planktonic Foraminifera: A Phylogenetic Atlas. <em>Hutchinson Ross Publishing Company, Stroudsberg, Pennsylvania.</em>
page(s): p. 171 [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
additional source Leckie, R. M., Wade, B. S., Pearson, P. N., Fraass, A. J., King, D. J., Olsson, R. K., Premoli Silva, I., Spezzaferri, S., Berggren, W. A. (2018). Taxonomy, biostratigraphy, and phylogeny of Oligocene and early Miocene <i>Paragloborotalia</i> and <i>Parasubbotina</i>. <em>Cushman Foundation Special Publication.</em> 46: 125-178. [details]
Present
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test trochospiral, slightly flattened spiral side, about two and a half whorls and about four to five globular chambers in the final whorl, sutures radial, depressed, periphery rounded, peripheral outline lobulate; wall calcareous, perforate, surface pustulose, cancellate, with a pore in the center of the fields between the polygonal ridges; aperture a low interiomarginal, umbilical to extraumbilical arch, bordered by a rim. U. Oligocene (Chattian) to M. Miocene (Serravallian); cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]