Foraminifera of the Gault of Folkestone . By F. Chapman. 583 
pp. 587, 588, plate lxxvi. figg. 22-28. Tinoporus baculatus Skerborn 
and Chapman, 1886, Journ. R. Micr. Soc., ser. 2, vol. vi. p. 758, 
plate xvi. fig. 24. Lagena protea Chaster, 1892, Rep. Southport Soc. 
Nat. Sci. for 1890-91, p. 62, plate i. fig. 14. Ramulina globulifera 
Egger, 1893, Abhandl. k. bayer. Ak. Wiss., Cl. ii. vol. xviii. part ii. 
p. 310 (118), plate ix. fig. 62. De Amicis, 1895, II Naturalista 
Siciliano, anno xiv. p. 48, plate i. fig. 14 a-c. 
This species is easily recognised by the thin-shelled globular or 
pyriform segments united by slender stolon tubes, and with the surface 
of the test hispid. The Gault specimens are not often so regularly 
shaped as the recent specimens, the normally globular or pyriform 
segments being sometimes greatly compressed or otherwise distorted ; 
like the recent specimens, they are always fragmentary. In some 
examples the septation of the inflated segments (lately elucidated by 
Prof. Rupert Jones and the writer, and shortly to be described in the 
Proc. Linn. Soc.) is indicated on the external surface by indistinct 
sutural lines. 
R. globulifera has been described under various names from strata 
dating from the Middle Jurassic of Poland and Switzerland ; it has 
also been found in the Neocomian beds of Surrey, in the Gault of 
France and England and in various Tertiary beds, including the 
London Clay and the Italian Pliocenes. It occurs at moderate depths 
in the seas of the present day. 
This species occurs at Folkestone in zone i., specimen b } very rare ; 
zone iii., rare ; zone viii., very rare ; zone x., frequent ; zone xi., 
55 ft., very rare ; 50 ft., very rare; 45 ft., frequent; 40 ft., rare; 
35 ft., frequent ; 20 ft., rare ; 12 ft., very rare ; 6 ft., frequent. 
Ramulina aculeata Wright, plate XII. figs. 7-9. 
R. aculeata Wright, 1886, Proceed. Belfast Nat. F. Club, 
1885-86, Appendix IX., 1886, p. 331, plate xxvii. fig. 11. Lagena 
hispida Hausler, 1887, Neues Jahrb. f. Min., vol. i. pp. 185 and 189, 
plate v. fig. 12. R. aculeata Burrows, Sherborn, and Bailey, 1890, 
Journ. R. Micr. Soc., p. 561, plate xi. fig. 16. Lagena tuberculata , 
Perner, 1892, Ceska Ak. Cisafe Frantiska Josefa, Prague (Palseonto- 
graphica Bohemiae, No. 1), p. 56, plate v. figs. 19 a, b. Ramulina 
globulifera var. miocsenica Rzehak, 1895, Ann. k. k. Naturhist. 
Hofmus., vol. x. p. 222, plate vi. fig. 6. R. Kitlii Idem, ibid., 
p. 221, plate vi. figs. 7, 9, 11. R. cf'. aculeata Idem, ibid., p. 222, 
plate vi. figs. 8, 10. 
This species, which is distinguished by the strongly built test, 
clothed with strong prickles, is more familiar as an Upper Cretaceous 
form ; in which strata the fragmentary remains, generally the cylin- 
drical connecting tubes, more rarely with the bulbous portions 
attached, are fairly common. The tests are always found in this 
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