Glomospira gordialis ( Jones and Parker, 1860 )

Besen, Richard M., Struck, Ulrich & Seibertz, Ekbert, 2021, Albian to Turonian agglutinated foraminiferal assemblages of the Lower Saxony Cretaceous sub-basins - implications for sequence stratigraphy and paleoenvironmental interpretation, Fossil Record 24 (2), pp. 395-441 : 407-408

Glomospira gordialis ( Jones and Parker, 1860)

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1860. Trochammina squamata (Jones and Parker) var. gordialis Jones and Parker , p. 292–307 (no type-figure given).

1990. Glomospira gordialis (Jones and Parker) ; Berggren and Kaminski, p. 73, pl. 1, fig. 1.

2005. Glomospira gordialis (Jones and Parker) ; Kaminski and Gradstein, p. 181, pl. 25, figs. 1–8.

2011. Glomospira gordialis (Jones and Parker) ; Kaminski et al., p. 85, pl. 1, fig. 14.

Material

A total of 57 specimens from the Baddeckenstedt section, 71 specimens from the Söhlde section, 40 specimens from the Wunstorf Wu2010/1 core, 67 specimens from the Wunstorf Wu2010/3 core, and 97 specimens from the Wunstorf Wu2010/4 core.

Occurrence

Common to very rare.

“ Glomospira” irregularis ( Grzybowski, 1898)

1898. Ammodiscus irregularis Grzybowski , p. 285, pl. 11, figs. 2, 3.

1984. Glomospira? irregularis (Grzybowski) ; Hemleben and Troester, p. 519, pl. 1, fig. 22.

1993. Glomospira irregularis (Grzybowski) ; Kaminski and Geroch, p. 256, pl. 6, figs. 6–8b.

2005. “ Glomospira” irregularis (Grzybowski) ; Kaminski and Gradstein, p. 185, pl. 26, figs. 1a–7.

2011. “ Glomospira” irregularis (Grzybowski) ; Kaminski et al., p. 85, pl. 1, fig. 15.

Material

A total of 14 specimens from the Baddeckenstedt section, 39 specimens from the Söhlde section, 47 specimens from the Wunstorf Wu2010/1 core, 76 specimens from the Wunstorf Wu2010/3 core, and 34 specimens from the Wunstorf Wu2010/4 core.

Occurrence

Common to rare in the Cenomanian at Wunstorf, otherwise rare to very rare.

Figures

Figure 6. Late Albian to Turonian agglutinated foraminifera from the Lower Saxonian Cretaceous; scale bars are 100 µm. (a) Saccammina grzybowski, Wunstorf Wu2010/1, 54.00 m. (b) Psammosphaera fusca, Wunstorf Wu2010/1, 59.05 m. (c) Tipeammina elliptica, Söhlde section, 31.00 m. (d–e) Tipeammina sp. 1, Wunstorf Wu2010/4, 43.30m. (f) Hyperammina gaultina, Wunstorf Wu 2010/4, 48.20 m. (g–h) Ammolagena clavata, two specimens sticking together, Wunstorf Wu2010/3, 25.50 m. (i) Ammolagena contorta, possibly previously attached on an inoceramid prism, Wunstorf Wu2010/4, 38.20 m. (j) Caudammina ovula, Söhlde section, 31.00m. (k) Subreophax scalaris, Wunstorf Wu2010/1, 69.10 m. (l) Ammodiscus cretaceus, Wunstorf Wu 2010/4, 48.20 m. (m) Ammodiscus glabratus, Wunstorf Wu2010/1, 54.65m. (n) Ammodiscus peruvianus, Wunstorf Wu2010/1, 54.00 m. (o) Ammodiscus tenuissimus, Wunstorf Wu2010/4, 43.30 m. (p) Glomospira diffundens, Wunstorf Wu2010/1, 49.05 m. (q) Glomospira gordialis, Wunstorf Wu 2010/3, 66.05 m. (r) Repmanina charoides, Wunstorf Wu2010/4, 38.20m. (s) Lituotuba lituiformis, Wunstorf Wu 2010/4, 48.95m. (t) Rzehakina minima, Wunstorf Wu2010/1, 54.80 m.