Globocassidulina sp. A

Setoyama, Eiichi & Kaminski, Michael A., 2015, Neogene benthic foraminifera from the southern Bering Sea (IODP Expedition 323), Palaeontologia Electronica (International ed. in English) 76 (4), pp. 1-30 : 7

Globocassidulina sp. A

Figure 3.14a–c

Description. Test very large, planispirally coiled with biserially arranged chambers, about five pairs of chambers in the final whorl. Periphery angled. Chambers elongate, increasing in size gradually. Sutures flash in the early part, slightly depressed later. Wall thick, finely perforated. Aperture a basal arch without a tooth plate.

Remarks. Only three specimens, only one of which is complete, are recorded. It differs from Globocassidulina crassa ( d’Orbigny, 1839b) by the shape of the aperture.

Figures

FIGURE 3. All scale bars are 100 µm. 1. Pyrgo murrhina, 13H-3, 146–148 cm; a. lateral view; b. apertural view. 2. Pyrgo sp. A, 13H-3, 146–148 cm; a. lateral view; b. apertural view. 3. Triloculina cf. Triloculina trihedra, 9H-5, 146– 148 cm; a. lateral view; b. apertural view. 4. Bolivina seminuda, 3H-CC, lateral view. 5. Bolivina sp. A, 36H-CC; a. lateral view; b. edge view showing the asymmetrically positioned aperture. 6. Brizalina pacifica, 11H-5, 146–148 cm; a. lateral view; b. edge view. 7. Brizalina panayensis, 1H-CC; a. lateral view; b. edge view. 8. Bolivinita quadrilatera, 61X-5, 115–117 cm; a. lateral view; b. edge view showing the asymmetrically positioned aperture. 9. Takayanagia cf. Takayanagia cushmani, 1H-CC; a. ventral view showing the tooth plate; b. dorsal view; c. edge view. 10. Rutherfordoides tenuis, 10H-3, 146–148 cm; a. ventral view; b. dorsal view. 11. Globocassidulina neomargareta, 9H-5, 146– 148 cm; a. ventral view; b. apertural view showing the tooth plate; c. dorsal view; d. edge view. 12. Globocassidulina subglobosa, 13H-3, 146–148 cm; a. ventral view; b. dorsal view; c. edge view. 13. Islandiella helenae, 12H-3, 146– 148 cm; a. ventral view; b. ventral view in immersion; c. dorsal view; d. edge view. 14. Globocassidulina sp. A, 3H- CC; a. ventral side, b. dorsal side, c. edge view.