globulina (foram) globulina (foram) globulina is a genus of foraminifera with an ovate to globular test, included in the polymorphinidae, notocariacea, that has been extant since the middle jurassic (callovian). globulinatemporal range: m jurassic - holocene scientific classification domain: eukaryota (unranked): sar (unranked): rhizaria superphylum: retaria phylum: foraminifera order: lagenida superfamily: nodosariacea family: polymorphinidae genus: globulinad'orbigny, 1839 synonyms guttulina (globulina) d'orbigny the test, (or shell), is of translucent, perforate, optically radial calcite. the surface smooth or rarely spinose to striate. chambers are added at first in five planes, a little more than 144 deg. apart, as with the miliolid quinqueloculina, but spiraling around the long axis; later chambers reduced to only three planes. chambers are strongly overlapping; sutures oblique, flush to slightly depressed. aperture terminal.