Abathomphalus

Abathomphalus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): SAR
(unranked): Rhizaria
Superphylum: Retaria
Phylum: Foraminifera
Order: Globigerinida
Family: Globotruncanidae
Genus: Abathomphalus
Bolli, Loeblich & Tappan
Type species
Abathomphalus mayaroensis
Bolli, Loeblich & Tappan

Abathomphalus is a genus of foraminifera included in the Globotruncanid family.

Abathomphalus was described and recorded in 1957 by Bolli, Loeblich, and Tappan and distinguished from related general by the "extra-umbilical position of the primary aperture and in the radial sutures on the umbilical side."

The test forms a low to flat umbilicate trochospiral, with four to five petaloid chambers per whorl. Sutures are curved and oblique, the periphery angular to truncate, bearing two variously spaced keels bordered by an imperforate band. The wall is calcareous, perforate, with pustules and short costellae on the surface; the primary aperture interiomarginal.

Abathomphalus is the sole genus of the subfamily Abathomphalinae, their descriptions being the same. Although Abathomphalus is included in the plantonic order Globigerinida, its description is suggestive of benthic forms.

References

    Further reading

    Tshakreen, SO; Gasinski, TA (2010). "Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary problem in Libya: the occurrence of the foraminiferal species Abathomphalus mayaroensis (Bolli) in the Western Sirt Basin". Geological Quarterly. 48 (1): 77–82. Retrieved 13 February 2015. 

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