Foraminifera - Globigerinoidea - Globorotaliidae
Alternative combination: Globorotalia acostaensis
Full reference: W. H. Blow. 1959. Age, correlation, and biostratigraphy of the upper Tocuyo (San Lorenzo) and Pozon Formations, eastern Falcon, Venezuela. Bulletins of American Paleontology 39(178):67-251
Belongs to Neogloboquadrina according to A. R. Lam and R. M. Leckie 2020
See also Blow 1959, Fraass et al. 2024, Haig 2012 and Kennett and Srinivasan 1983
Sister taxa: Neogloboquadrina atlantica, Neogloboquadrina dutertrei, Neogloboquadrina humerosa, Neogloboquadrina incompta, Neogloboquadrina inglei, Neogloboquadrina nympha, Neogloboquadrina pachyderma, Neogloboquadrina pseudopima
Subtaxa: Globorotalia acostaensis trochoidea
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal omnivore
Distribution:
• NN21 of Indian Ocean (2 collections)
• G. ruber PRZ of Indian Ocean (4)
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (143), Italy (1), North Pacific (3), Panama (1), South Atlantic (13), South Pacific (6)
• G. miocenica HOZ - Atlantic of Indian Ocean (1)
• NN16 of Indian Ocean (49), South Atlantic (3), South Pacific (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indian Ocean (6), North Pacific (2)
• Pliocene of Egypt (1), Indian Ocean (122), Italy (1), North Pacific (29), South Atlantic (21), South Pacific (2), Timor-Leste (22)
• NN12 of Indian Ocean (33), South Atlantic (6), South Pacific (3)
• G. tumida/G. nepenthes CRZ - Atlantic of Indian Ocean (8)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Indian Ocean (1), North Pacific (5), Timor-Leste (22)
• Neogene of Indian Ocean (2)
• Miocene of Greece (1), India (1), Indian Ocean (238), Italy (4), North Pacific (223), South Atlantic (17), South Pacific (9), Southern Ocean (1), Spain (3), Timor-Leste (17)
• Cenozoic of Indian Ocean (4)
Total: 1031 collections including 1489 occurrences
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