DENTOGLOBIGERINA Blow, 1979

 

 

Tire species: Globigerina galavisi Bermúdez, 1961 (*206), p. 1.183; OD.

Dentoglobigerina Blow, 1979 (*259), p. 1298.

Test trochospiral, resembling Catapsydrax in chamber form and arrangement; wall calcareous. coarsely perforate, with prominent pore pits and pore ridges; aperture interiomarginal, umbilical in position, or may be slightly asymmetrically positioned, with imperforate projecting triangular tooth, those of some earlier chambers also remaining visible in the open umbilicus. L. Eocene (Ypresian) to L. Pliocene; cosmopolitan.