NMITA:Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America

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Manicina jungi Budd and Johnson, 1998

Holotype: NMB D6220

Morphologic Description:

Meander series sinuosity: gently curved

Colony size: small (<10cm)

Attachment of skeleton: free-living

Epitheca: well-developed

Wall development between buds: never

Symmetry of bud geometry: bi-directional

Calice or valley width: large (10-15mm)

Calice relief: medium (2-4mm)

Calicular platform shape: u-shaped

Coenosteum: absent

Exothecal dissepiments: present

Number of septal cycles: >4

Septal spacing (per 5mm): >12

Relative septa thickness: unequal

Relative costae thickness: unequal

Septal lobes: absent

Paliform lobes: present

Columella continuity: continuous

Columella width: <=1/4

Endothecal dissepiments: abundant

Wall structure: parathecal

Double or single wall: single

Distribution:

Late Miocene : Gurabo Fm., Rio Gurabo, Dominican Republic;

Late Miocene to Early Pliocene : Gurabo Fm., Rio Cana, Dominican Republic; Gurabo Fm., Rio Cana, Dominican Republic; Gurabo Fm., Rio Gurabo, Dominican Republic; Gurabo Fm., Rio Gurabo, Dominican Republic;

Early Pliocene : Gurabo Fm., Rio Cana, Dominican Republic; Gurabo Fm., Rio Cana, Dominican Republic; Gurabo Fm., Rio Gurabo, Dominican Republic; Gurabo Fm., Rio Yaque del Norte, Dominican Republic;

Late Pliocene : Bowden Fm., Bowden Shell Beds, Jamaica; Bowden Fm., Bowden seacliff, Jamaica;