globothalamean

comparative more globothalamean · superlative most globothalamean

1. biologyRelating to or characteristic of the foraminifers of the class Globothalamea, especially in relation to their globular chambers which characterize their shells.First known use 2010s

   globothalamean foraminifera

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   Globothalamean foraminifera (Pawlowski et al., 2013) colonized nearly all marine paleoenvironments, including benthic and planktonic habitats.

   2017 April 29, Jarosław Tyszka, Ulf Bickmeyer, Jelle Bijma, Jan Goleń, Markus Raitzsch, Karina Kaczmarek, Paweł Topa, “Morphogenesis of chamber formation in globothalamean Foraminifera”, in Grzybowski Foundation Special Publication No. 23, Smolenice, Slovakia, page 86

plural globothalameans

1. biologyAny foraminifer of the class Globothalamea, differentiated by their globular shell chambers.First known use 2010s

   In both tubothalameans and globothalameans, the chambers more or less coil around the proloculus to form a spiral.

   2020 September 25, Christopher Taylor, “The Glandulinid Position”, in Catalogue of Organisms

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   Globothalameans possess globular chambers and minimal distances between successive apertures; tubothalameans possess tubular chambers and maximal distances between apertures; lagenids, like Tubothalamea, are characterised by maximal distances between apertures (related with terminal chamber formation), but their chambers are rather globular.

   2019, Zofia Dubicka, “Chamber arrangement versus wall structure in the high-rank phylogenetic classification of Foraminifera”, in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica