Glomospira, Rzehak, 1885

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 : 26

Genus GLOMOSPIRA Rzehak, 1885 Glomospira extendens Emiliani, 1954

Figure 15.1

1954 Glomospira charoides (Jones and Parker) , var. extendens ; Emiliani, p. 133, pl. 22 (3), fig. 14a-c.

Material. One single specimen from the sample PC11.

Description. Test free, small, composed of a proloculus followed by a tubular undivided chamber initially arranged in 3–4 glomospirine whorls, whereas the last two whorls are coiled around an axis at 90°. Wall smooth and finely agglutinated. Aperture terminal at the end of the tube-like chamber.

Figures

FIGURE 15. Scanning electron micrographs of Usbekistaniinae from the Caltavuturo Formation cropping out at Portella Colla. 1, Glomospira extendens Emiliani, 1954, PC11. 2, Glomospira gordialis (Jones and Parker, 1860), PC060604. 3-16, Repmanina charoides (Jones and Parker, 1860), PC060604 (3), PC060601 (4), PC060604 (5), PC060603 (6), PC060611 (7), PC060601 (8), PC060603 (9), PC060621 (10), PC060621 (11), PC060617 (12), PCs0 (13), PCs0 (14), PC060604 (15) and PCs0 (16). Scale bar equals 0.5 mm.