original description
Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1826). Tableau méthodique de la classe des Céphalopodes. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles.</em> vol. 7: 96-169, 245-314., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5753959
page(s): p. 277 [details]
original description
(of Rhynchospira Ehrenberg, 1845) Ehrenberg, C.G. (1845). [Novorum Generum et Specierum brevis definitio. Zusätze zu seinen letzten Mittheilung über die mikroskopischen Lebensformen von Portugall und Spanien, Süd-Afrika, Hinter-Indien, Japan und Kurdistan, und legte die folgenden Diagnosen u. s. w.]. Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1845: 357-377, available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11055633
page(s): p. 358 [details]
original description
(of Globigerina (Rhynchospira) Reuss in Karrer, 1877) Karrer, F. W. (1877). Geologie der Kaiser Franz Josefs Hochquellen-Wasserleitung, Eine Studie in den Tertiär-Bildungen am Westrande des alpinen Theiles der Niederung von Wien. <em>Abhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt.</em> 9: 1-420., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39176339
page(s): p. 387; note: Karrer quoted both genera as synonyms rather than having Rhynchospira as a subgenus of Globigerina. [details]
basis of record
Gross, O. (2001). Foraminifera, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 60-75 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1987). Foraminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. 970pp., available online at https://books.google.pt/books?id=n_BqCQAAQBAJ [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test globose, trochospirally enrolled, chambers spherical to ovate but not radially elongate, enlarging rapidly as added, commonly only three to five in the final whorl, sutures distinct, depressed, umbilicus open, periphery rounded, peripheral outline lobulate; wall calcareous, perforate, with cylindrical pores, surface in life has numerous long slender spines of circular cross section that are broken on dead or fossil shells, the short blunt spine remnants resulting in a hispid wall surface; primary aperture a high umbilical arch that may be bordered by an imperforate rim or narrow lip, no secondary apertures. U. Eocene to Holocene; cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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