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Plate 6 | Swiss Journal of Palaeontology

Plate 6

From: The planktonic foraminifera of the Jurassic. Part I: material and taxonomy

Plate 6

(=Plate 2.5, figs. 5–10 and plate 2.7, figs. 8–14 of Simmons et al. 1997). Nos. 1–6. Globuligerina oxfordiana (Grigelis) subspecies calloviensis Kuznetsova emended, Early to Middle Callovian, Crimea, USSR. Two metatypes deposited in the Geological Institute, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR. Nos. 1–3, 110 µm diameter; nos. 4–6, 180 µm diameter. Figures 8, 9, 10. Globuligerina avariformis (Kasimova) 1984. Upper Bajocian, Negramkoye Gorge, Aras River, Nakhichevan, Azerbaijan, donated by G. K. Kasimova to the Natural History Museum, London, metatype. Unusually large specimen diameter of 320 µm, as reported by Simmons et al. (1997) may be an error; spiral, side and umbilical views (×125). Globuligerina jurassica (Hofman 1958). Bathonian–Early Callovian, southern Crimea, deposited in the Geological Faculty, Moscow State University, Russia. Nos. 11–13, neotype, specimen diameter 270 µm; spiral, side and umbilical views; umbilicus with partial bulla, ×150; no. 14, paratype, specimen diameter 260 µm, spiral view, ×155. Test sizes may be quoted too large (see text)

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