Genus Globobulimina
Globobulimina Cushman 1927, emended Höglund, 1947
Description emended by Höglund (1947): Test an elongate spiral, triserial; subglobular, oviform or fusiform; chambers inflated rapidly increasing in size, later ones extending more or less backward, and sometimes inclosing the preceding ones; wall calcareous, comparatively thin, smooth, perforate; aperture loop-shaped, with doubly folded tongue joined to the anterior half of the apertural border; the upper part of the tongue forming a fan or comb-like tip rising above the aperture and partially filling it up posteriorly; the descending part of the tongue formed as an arched trough, running first into the cavity of the chamber, then bending forward toward the anterior confer of the aperture, the free shank of the tongue anteriorly coalesced with the free border of the aperture.
Globobulimina pacifica Cushman, 1927
Globobulimina pacifica Cushman, 1927, p. 67, pl. 14, fig. 12; Cushman and Parker, 1947 p. 134, pl. 20, fig. 7; Galloway and Wissler, 1927, p. 74, pl. 11, fig. 18.
Description: Test subglobular in the adult with three chambers making the exterior by enclosing the preceding ones, wall very think finely perforate; aperture loop-shaped with a slight border, as broad tooth or plate, and internal spiral tube.
Distribution: Cushman and Parker (1947) reported that this species is common along the west coast of North America. In Puget Sound it is rare.
