Pulleniatina obliquiloculata (Parker & Jones, 1865)

Ovechkina, Maria N., Bylinskaya, Marina E. & Uken, Ron, 2010, Planktonic foraminiferal assemblage in surface sediments from the Thukela Shelf, South Africa, African Invertebrates 51 (2), pp. 231-231 : 238-239

Pulleniatina obliquiloculata (Parker & Jones, 1865)

Figs 5A, 5D

Pullenia obliquiloculata: Parker & Jones 1865: 183 .

Pulleniatina obliquiloculata (Parker & Jones) : Parker 1962: 234, pl. 4, figs 13–16, 19, 22; Todd 1965: 67, pl. 27, figs 2–4; Saito et al. 1981: 96, 98, pl. 30, figs 1a–d, 2a–d; pl. 31, figs 3a–d; Bolli & Saunders 1985: 247, figs 40.4, 41.9–12; Loeblich & Tappan 1987: 480, pl. 524, figs 4–12; 1994: 103, pl. 187, figs 8–13; pl. 188, figs 1–6; Basov & Krasheninnikov 1995: pl. III, figs 7, 8.

Test size variable, rounded in outline, initially a low trochospiral becoming a streptospiral. Spherical chambers becoming radially flattened, very embracing with sutures weak. Aperture a very low, ventrally interiomarginal arch.

Remarks: This species can easily be identified by its rounded polished (glossy) test, being very compact, with embracing chambers.

Distribution: Equatorial and tropical waters. Rare in our material.

Figures

Fig.5.(A, D) Pulleniatina obliquiloculata (Parker & Jones, 1865), sample 26; (B, E) Globigerinitaglutinata (Egger, 1893), sample 26; (C, F) Globigerina quinqueloba Natland, 1938, sample 2; (G–I) Globigerina bulloides d’Orbigny, 1826, sample 6.