Globoquadrina dehiscens
Creators
- 1. Marine Research Institute and Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X 3, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa. & Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X 3, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa; & Invertebrate palaeontology and Geology, Iziko South African Museum, P. O. Box 61, Cape Town 8000, South Africa. john. compton @ uct. ac. za; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0765 - 4141
- 2. Marine Research Institute and Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X 3, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa.
Description
Globoquadrina dehiscens (Chapman, Parr & Collins, 1934) Pl. 7, figs. 2–3
Globorotalia dehiscens Chapman et al., 1934, p. 569, pl. 11, fig. 36.
Globoquadrina dehiscens dehiscens Jenkins, 1960. P. 354, pl. 3, fig. 3a–c.
Globoquadrina dehiscens Jenkins, 1960, p. 355, pl. 3, fig. 4a–c; Kennett & Srinivasan, 1983, p. 184, pl. 45, figs. 7–9; Kender et al., 2008, p. 521, pl. 29, fig. 1.
Description: The test surface is cancellate. The test is trochospiral and roughly quadrate in outline. There are four chambers visible in the final whorl. The sutures between chambers are strongly incised. The spiral side is nearly flat. The aperture is dentate and central to the four final chambers.
Remarks: The relative abundances of Globoquadrina dehiscens form a minor component (<10%) of the planktic foraminiferal assemblage in core 2658. In the deeper cores (2670 and 2682), the relative abundances of Globoquadrina dehiscens are below 5%. The tests are relatively small to moderate in size, measuring up to 0.5 mm in diameter.
Environmental preferences: This species has been associated with tropical to temperate surface waters (Kennett & Srinivasan, 1983; Bicchi et al., 2003).
Global stratigraphic range: Globoquadrina dehiscens has been documented to occur in strata dated to the early to late Miocene – Aquitanian to Messinian (Kennett & Srinavasan, 1983; Wade et al., 2011).
Regional occurrence: This species has been recorded in Miocene-aged strata of the Congo Basin (Kender, 2007) to the northern Namibian outer continental shelf, south of the Kunene River mouth (this study) and the southwestern shelf of South Africa (Compton et al., 2004).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Catapsydracidae
- Genus
- Globoquadrina
- Kingdom
- Chromista
- Order
- Rotaliida
- Phylum
- Foraminifera
- Scientific name authorship
- Chapman, Parr & Collins
- Species
- dehiscens
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Globoquadrina dehiscens (Chapman, 1934) sec. Bergh & Compton, 2022
References
- Chapman, F., Parr, W. J. & Collins, A. C. (1934) Tertiary foraminifera of Victoria, Australia. The Balcombian deposits of Port Phillip, Part III. Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society of London, 38 (262), 553 - 577. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1934. tb 00996. x
- Jenkins, D. G. (1960) Planktonic Foraminifera from the Lakes Entrance Oil Shaft, Victoria, Australia. Micropaleontology, 6 (4), 345 - 371. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 1484217
- Kennett, J. P. & Srinivasan, M. S. (1983) Neogene Planktonic Foraminifera. A Phylogenetic Atlas. Hutchinson Ross, Stroudsburg, 265 pp.
- Kender, S., Kaminski, M. A. & Jones, R. W. (2008) Early to middle Miocene foraminifera from the deep-sea Congo Fan, offshore Angola. Micropalaeontology, 54, 477 - 568.
- Bicchi, E., Ferrero, E. & Gonera, M. (2003) Palaeoclimatic interpretation based on Middle Miocene planktonic Foraminifera: the Silesia Basin (Paratethys) and Monferrato (Tethys) records. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 196, 265 - 303. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / S 0031 - 0182 (03) 00368 - 7
- Wade, B. S., Pearson, P. N., Berggren, W. A. & Palike, H. (2011) Review and revision of Cenozoic tropical planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy and calibration to the geomagnetic polarity and astronomical time scale. Earth-Science Reviews, 104, 111 - 142. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. earscirev. 2010.09.003
- Kender, S. (2007) Foraminiferal characterisation and taxonomy of Oligocene Miocene Congo Fan deep sea sub-environments, offshore Angola. Ph. D. thesis, University College, London, 325 pp.
- Compton, J. S., Wigley, R. & McMillan, I. K. (2004) Late Cenozoic phosphogenesis on the western shelf of South Africa in the vicinity of the Cape Canyon. Marine Geology, 206, 19 - 40. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. margeo. 2004.02.004