Glabratella Dorreen, 1948

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Glabratella Dorreen, 1948 Glabratella australensis (Heron-Allen & Earland, 1932)

Figs 5F, 5H

Discorbis australensis: Heron-Allen & Earland 1932: 416 .

Pileolina australensis: Barker 1960: 184 , pl. 89, figs 2–4.

Glabratella australensis: Albani 1979: 38 , fig. 76.1; McMillan 1987 a: 363, figs 14–18, pl. 15, figs 2–4; Lankford & Phleger 1973: 121, pl. 4, fig. 26; Albani et al. 2001.

Material examined: A27392, A27414 , A27415.

Distribution: Australia, also reported off the west coast of North America.Around South Africa from Sea Point to Port Elizabeth. Reported by McMillan (1987 a) from samples collected off the coast of Namibia.

Remarks: Differs from the specimen illustrated by Albani et al. (2001) in that the shape is more lobulate and surface is more perforate. The South African species of G. australensis differs from that of the Australian and N. American species in the shape of the shell.

Figures

Fig. 5 A–L: (A) Trifarina angulosa (Williamson, 1858); (B) Neoconcorbina sp. “A”; (C, D) Rosalina cf. globularis d’Orbigny, 1826; (E) Rosalina sp. “A”; (F–H) Glabratella australensis (Heron-Allen & Earland, 1932); (I, J) Patellina corrugata Williamson, 1858; (K) Ammonia parkinsoniana (d’Orbigny, 1839); (L) Pararotalia nipponica (Asano, 1936).