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A GLOBIGERINA

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 123 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GLOBIGERINA  . d'Orbigny, a genus of Perforate
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Foraminifera (q.v.) of pelagic habit, and formed of a conical
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spiral aggregate of spheroidal chambers with a crescentic mouth . The shells accumulate at the bottom of moderately deep seas to form " Globigerina ooze " and are preserved thus in the
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chalk . Hastigerina only differs in the " flat " or nautiloid spiral .

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