Quinqueloculina

Mamo, Briony L., 2016, Benthic Foraminifera from the Capricorn Group, Great Barrier Reef, Australia, Zootaxa 4215 (1), pp. 1-123 : 41

Quinqueloculina sp. cf. Q. parkeri ( Brady 1881) ( Fig. 9 :5, 6)

Description. See Collins (1958, p. 362, pl. 2, figs 11, 12).

Remarks. This species is only tentatively assigned to Q. parkeri due to a lack of specimens and the fact that the aperture is damaged in all specimens precluding confident identification. Nevertheless, this species has the distinctive corrugated ornament and roughened test wall characteristic of the species. The original specimens illustrated by Collins (1958, pl. 2, figs 11, 12) from the CG appears to have a broader test than those collected in this study and the specimens from the Sahul Shelf and Timor Sea described by Loeblich & Tappan (1994, p. 47, pl. 74, figs 1–6).

Distribution within study area. This species was found at site 36 in One Tree Lagoon 1.

Figures

FIGURE 9. (Unless otherwise specified all scale bars = 100 µm). 1 – 4. Quinqueloculina parkeri (Brady, 1881). 1 – 2. QM # G 465832 from OTI 39, lateral (1) and oral (2) views. 3 – 4. QM # G 465952 from CHANNEL, lateral (3) and oral (4) views. Scale bar = 200 µm. 5 – 6. Quinqueloculina cf. Q. parkeri (Brady, 1881), QM # G 465819 from OTI 36. 5. Lateral view. 6. Peripheral view. 7 – 12. Quinqueloculina cf. Q. patagonica d’Orbigny, 1839. 7 – 8. QM # G 465979 from WL 21, lateral (7) and close-up oral (8) views. Scale bar for 8 = 10 µm. 9 – 10. QM # G 465922 from WL 7, lateral (9) and oral (10) views. Scale bar for 10 = 50 µm. 11 – 12. QM # G 465921 from WL 7, lateral (11) and oral (12) views. 13 – 19. Quinqueloculina philippinensis Cushman, 1921. 13 – 15. QM # G 465905 from T 1 – 2, lateral (13), peripheral (14) and oral (15) views. Scale bar = 200 µm. 16 – 17. QM # G 465909 from T 1 – 4, lateral (16) and oral (17) views. 18 – 19. QM # G 465938 from OTI 13, lateral (18) and oral (19) views. Scale bar = 200 µm. 20 – 21. Quinqueloculina rariformis McCulloch, 1981, QM # G 465902 from ST / HW 10. 20. Lateral view. 21. Oral view.