Foraminifera taxon details
Costellagerina Petters, El-Nakhal & Cifelli, 1983 †
721558 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:721558)
accepted
Genus
Rugoglobigerina (Rugoglobigerina) bulbosa Belford, 1960 † accepted as Costellagerina bulbosa (Belford, 1960) † (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Petters, S. W.; El-Nakhal, H. A.; Cifelli, R. L. (1983). Costellagerina, a new Late Cretaceous globigerine foraminiferal genus. <em>The Journal of Foraminiferal Research.</em> 13(4): 247-251., available online at https://doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.13.4.247
page(s): p. 248 [details]
page(s): p. 248 [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Costellagerina Petters, El-Nakhal & Cifelli, 1983 †. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=721558 on 2024-04-27
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original description
Petters, S. W.; El-Nakhal, H. A.; Cifelli, R. L. (1983). Costellagerina, a new Late Cretaceous globigerine foraminiferal genus. <em>The Journal of Foraminiferal Research.</em> 13(4): 247-251., available online at https://doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.13.4.247
page(s): p. 248 [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
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page(s): p. 248 [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
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test with low to medium trochospiral coil of few, rapidly enlarging, spherical chambers per whorl, sutures radial, depressed, periphery rounded, peripheral margin lobulate; wall calcareous, hyaline, optically radial, finely perforate, surface with meridionally aligned pustules and costellae resulting from fusion of adjacent pustules; aperture a low interiomarginal, umbilical to slightly extraumbilical arch, with a narrow bordering lip. U. Cretaceous (Cenomanian to Campanian); cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]