Asterorotalia pulchella (d'Orbigny)

Hanagata, S & Nobuhara, T, 2015, Illustrated guide to Pliocene foraminifera from Miyakojima, Ryukyu Island Arc, with comments on biostratigraph, Palaeontologia Electronica (Cambridge, England) 33 (8), pp. 1-142 : 119

Asterorotalia pulchella (d'Orbigny)

Figures 35.9, 35.10

1839 Rotalina (Calcarena) pulchella d’Orbigny (a), p. 80.

1933 Rotalia trispinosa Thalmann , p. 248.

1951 Rotalia trispinosa Thalmann — Asano (part 14), p. 17, text-fig. 127.

1964 Asterorotalia trispinosa (Thalmann) — LeRoy, p. F39, pl. 6, figs. 18, 19.

1977 Asterorotalia cf. trispinosa (Thalmann) — McCulloch, pp. 425, 426, pl. 152, figs. 1— 3.

1992 Asterorotalia trispinosa (Thalmann) — Kadar, pp. 250, 253, fig. 6-8.

1994 Asterorotalia pulchella (d’Orbigny) — Jones, p. 114, pl. 115, fig. 8.

Occurrence. Abundant in the Oura Formation, sporadic in the Onogoshi and Minebari formations.

Figures

FIGURE 35. Family Rotaliidae. All scale bars = 0.1mm, unless otherwise indicated. 1, 2. Pararotalia cf. nipponica (Asano), 1: MPC-26407, 2: MPC-26408, both from sample MK02B (Minebari Formation, PL5). 3—6. Ammonia maruhasii (Kuwano), 3: MPC-26112 from sample 18 (Oura F.,?PL1); 4: MPC-26113 from sample MK02B (Minebari F., PL5); 5: MPC-26114 from sample 3-2-up-sand (Onogoshi F., PL1); 6: MPC-26115 from sample MK01 (Yonahama F., PL2); 5 and 6, high trochospiral variety. 7, 8. Ammonia parkinsoniana (d'Orbigny), 7: MPC-26116 from sample 14 (Yonahama F., PL4); 8: MPC-26117 from sample 14-2 (Yonahama F., PL4). 9, 10. Asterorotalia pulchella (d'Orbigny), 9: MPC-26134 from sample 10 (Onogoshi F., PL2); 10: MPC-26135 from sample 18 (Oura F.,?PL1). 11, 12. Rotalinoides compressiuscula (Brady), 11: MPC-26466 from sample 5-2 (Minebari F., PL5); 12: MPC-26467 from sample 18 (Oura F.,?PL1).