Conglophragmium deforme ( Grzybowski, 1898 )

Benedetti, A, 2017, Eocene / Oligocene deep-water agglutinated foraminifers (DWAF) assemblages from the Madonie Mountains (Sicily, Southern Italy), Palaeontologia Electronica 20 (1), pp. 1-66 : 32

Conglophragmium deforme ( Grzybowski, 1898)

Figure 16.20

1898 Trochammina deformis ; Grzybowski, p. 288, pl. 11, figs. 20-22.

1995 Paratrochamminoides deformis (Grzybowski) ; Rögl, p. 256, pl. 2, figs. 15-19.

2004 Conglophragmium deformis (Grzybowski) ; Kaminski and Kuhnt, p. 279.

Material. One specimen from the sample PC060623.

Description. Test free, large, oval in outline. Initially streptospirally coiled, later an involute planispire with 5–6 globose, elongated and subrectangular chambers componing the last whorl. Aperture interiomarginal.

Figures

FIGURE 16. Scanning electron micrographs of Reophacidae (1-3), Hormosinidae (4-13), and Lituotubidae (14-20) from the Caltavuturo Formation cropping out at Portella Colla. 1, Reophax duplex Grzybowski, 1896, PC060624. 2, Reophax pilulifer Brady, 1884, PC13. 3, Reophax sp. 1, PC060615. 4-5, Hormosina velascoensis (Cushman, 1926), PC060617 (4) and PC11 (5). 6, Hormosina trinitatensis Cushman and Renz, 1946, PC11. 7, Hormosina sp. 1, PC060624. 8, Hormosina sp. 2, PC060615. 9-11, Pseudonodosinella elongata Grzybowski, 1898, PC11 (9), PC060601 (10) and PCs0 (11). 12-13, Pseudonodosinella nodulosa Brady, 1879, PC11 (12) and PC060617 (13). 14, Paratrochamminoides acervulatus (Grzybowski, 1896), PC13. 15, Paratrochamminoides deflexiformis (Noth, 1912), PC060615. 16, Lituotuba lituiformis (Brady, 1879), PC060615. 17, Paratrochamminoides sp. 1, PC060601. 18, Paratrochamminoides draco (Grzybowski, 1901), PC11. 19, Paratrochamminoides mitratus (Grzybowski, 1901), PCs0. 20, Conglophragmium deforme (Grzybowski, 1898), PC060623. Scale bar equals 0.5 mm.