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Species Globorotalia wilcoxensis Cushman & Ponton 1932



Diagnosis / Definition:
Bolli (1957):
Shape of test very low trochospiral, spiral side flat, occasionally slightly concave; umbilical side strongly convex and inflated; equatorial periphery lobate; axial periphery rounded, in last chambers often becoming acute. Wall calcareous, perforate, distinctly spinose. Chambers inflated, slightly compressed laterally; about 10, arranged in 2-2 1/4 whorls, the 4 chambers of the last whorl increasing rapidly in size, the last chamber often slightly reduced again. Sutures on spiral side oblique, depressed; on umbilical side radial, strongly depressed. Umbilicus narrow, deep, open. Aperture a low arch; interiomarginal, extraumbilical umbilical. Coiling about 85 percent dextral. Largest diameter of hypotype 0.48 mm.
Discussion / Comments:
Bolli (1957):
Globorotalia wilcoxensis Cushman and Ponton is regarded as the ancestor of G. quetra Bolli, new species.
Systematics:

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 Genus Globorotalia
  Species Globorotalia wilcoxensis

32
 Ordo Foraminiferida
  Familia Globorotaliidae
   Genus Globorotalia
    Species Globorotalia wilcoxensis
Synonym list:
Bolli (1957):
1932 Globorotalia wilcoxensis Cushman & Ponton. - Cushman & Ponton : p. 71 pl. 9, figs. 10a-c
1957 Globorotalia wilcoxensis Cushman & Ponton. - Bolli : pl. 19, figs. 7-9
Was used in synonym list of:
Acarinina wilcoxensis Cushman & Ponton 1932
References:

Cushman,J.A. and Ponton,G.M. (1932):
An Eocene foraminiferal fauna of Wilcox age from Alabama . Contributions from the Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research Vol. 8 p. 51-72

Bolli,H.M. (1957):
The genera Globigerina and Globorotalia in the Paleocene-Lower Eocene Lizard Springs Formation of Trinidad, B.W.I . Bulletin of the U.S. National Museum Vol. 215 p. 61-82

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