Tritaxia macfadyeni Cushman, 1936

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 : 418

Tritaxia macfadyeni Cushman, 1936

Fig. 8b

1936. Tritaxia macfadyeni Cushman , p. 3, pl. 1m figs. 6a, b.

Material

A total of 39 specimens from the Wunstorf Wu2010/1 core and three specimens from the Wunstorf Wu2010/4 core.

Remarks

Always smaller than T. tricarinata and with a much more rounded and smooth cross section.

Occurrence

Mass occurrence (abundant) in the lower Cenomanian of Wunstorf around the crippsi Event, otherwise very rare.

Figures

Figure 8. Late Albian to Turonian agglutinated foraminifers from the Lower Saxonian Cretaceous; scale bars are 100 µm. (a) Tritaxia gaultina, Wunstorf Wu2010/1, 19.05 m. (b) Tritaxia tricarinata, Wunstorf Wu2010/1, 19.05 m. (c) Tritaxia macfadyeni, Wunstorf Wu2010/1, 34.10m. (d–e) Eggerellina brevis, Baddeckenstedt section, 19.30 m. (f) Eggerellina mariae, Wunstorf Wu2010/3, 30.15m. (g) Flourensina intermedia, Wunstorf Wu2010/1, 54.80 m. (h) Gaudryina sp. 1, Baddeckenstedt section, 39.00m. (i) Verneuilinoides sp., Wunstorf Wu2010/4, 48.95 m. (j) Vialovella frankei, Wunstorf Wu2010/1, 15.20 m. (k) Arenobulimina bochumensis, Baddeckenstedt section, 9.00 m. (l) Arenobulimina preslii, Wunstorf Wu2010/4, 43.30 m. (m) Arenobulimina truncata, Wunstorf Wu2010/4, 43.30m. (n–o) Ataxophragmium depressum, Wunstorf Wu2010/4, 58.60 m. (p) Hagenowella elevata, Wunstorf Wu2010/4, 58.60 m. (q) Voloshinoides advenus, Wunstorf Wu2010/1, 29.25 m. (r) Voloshinoides anglicus, Baddeckenstedt section, 7.00m. (s) Pseudotextulariella cretosa, Wunstorf Wu2010/1, 19.05m. (t) Kadriayina gradata, Wunstorf Wu2010/3, 66.05 m. (u) Marssonella ozawai, Wunstorf Wu2010/1, 15.20 m.