Foraminifera - Globigerinoidea - Globorotaliidae
Alternative combination: Globorotalia hessi
Full reference: H. Bolli and I. Premoli Silva. 1973. Oligocene to Recent Planktonic Foraminifera and Stratigraphy of the Leg 15 Sites in the Caribbean Sea. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project 15:475-497
Belongs to Truncorotalia according to T. Aze et al. 2011
See also Bolli and Premoli Silva 1973
Sister taxa: Globorotalia (Truncorotalia) crassula, Globorotalia (Truncorotalia) tosaensis, Globorotalia (Truncorotalia) truncatulinoides, Truncorotalia cavernula, Truncorotalia crassaconica, Truncorotalia excelsa
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal omnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Truncorotalia hessi in the database
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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