Dr. Nagy I. Zoltán szerk.: Fragmenta Mineralogica Et Palaentologica 3. 1972. (Budapest, 1972)

Occurrences This species occurs abundantly in the upper Paleocene G. velascoensis zone in the section studied. Stratigraphie range: SAID & KENAWY (1956) described this species from the upper Paleocene of Gebel Nekhl and Giddi sections, Sinai

, Egypt

. BECKMANN (1957) recorded this species from the upper Paleocene samples (

G. pseudomenardii and G. velascoensis zone) lower Lizard Springs formation, Trinidad. SAID & KERDANY (1961) illustrated this species from the upper Paleocene of the Parafra Oasis, Libyan Desert, Egypt. SAID & SABRY (1964) found this species in the G. pseudomenardii zone of Gebel Aweina section, Nile Valley, Egypt. Family Globigerinidae CARPENTER, PARKER & JONES 1862 Subfamily Globigerininae CARPENTER, PARKER & JONES 1862 Genus Globigerina d

'ORBIGNY 1826 Globigerina aspensis COLOM (pl. V, fig. 8; pl. VIII, fig. 5.) 1954 Globigerina aspensis COLOM. - /COLOM p. 151, pl. 3, figs. 1,-35. (fide Catalogue of Foraminifera) Description: Test small, medium trochospiral

, composed of 2 ^ whorls. Equatorial periphery subcircular, distinctly lobate; axial periphery rounded. Chambers 12 on the dorsal side, in î creasing slowly in size, arranged in 2 ^ whorls. The last whorl is composed of 5 ^ globular, inflated chambers. Wall calcareous finely perforate, surface smooth. Sutures on both sides almost straight, radial, depressed. Umbilicus small, deep and open* Aperture large, interiOmarginal - umbilical. Diameter: 0,32 mm