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Marginopora vertebralis [described by Cushman as Orbitolites complanata]
Marginopora vertebralis [described by Cushman as Orbitolites complanata]
Description Image source: Cushman, J.A. 1917. A Monograph of the Foraminifera of the North Pacific Ocean. Part VI. Miliolidae. Bull. U.S. Nation. Mus 71: vii+108 pp.+39 pls.

Cushman referred to Brady's Challenger figures (pl. 16 fig. 1-6, pl. 17 fig. 1-6) given as O. complanata but now identified as M. vertebralis (see Jones 1994). O. complanatus is a fossil species. Author Cedhagen, Tomas JPG file - 567.04 kB - 1 003 x 890 pixels added on 2011-09-21574 viewsForaminifera taxa Marginopora vertebralis Quoy & Gaimard, 1830checked Le Coze, François 2017-03-26 Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License
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