Asterorotalia pulchella (d’Orbigny, 1839a)

Figure 3.17-18

1839a Rotalia (Calcarina) pulchella d’Orbigny, p. 80, pl. 5, figs. 16-18.

2001 Asterorotalia pulchella (d’Orbigny); Szarek, p. 147, pl. 27, figs. 11-12.

2015 Asterorotalia pulchella (d’Orbigny); Hanagata and Nobuhara, p. 119, figs. 35.9-10.

Description. Test small, outline nearly triangular, wall calcareous, perforate, surface strongly ornamented with knobs, pustules and ridges; chambers many, gradually increasing in size as added; periphery with imperforate keel and long triradiate spines, sutures nearly straight, raised and limbate on the dorsal side, radial and slightly curved on the ventral side; aperture an equatorial, terminal, ovate opening on the apertural side.