Haplophragmoides cf. kirki Wickenden, 1932

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 : 38

Haplophragmoides cf. kirki Wickenden, 1932

Figure 18.19

cf. 1932 Haplophragmoides kirki ; Wickenden, p. 85, pl. 1, fig. 1a-c.

Material. Three specimens from three samples.

Description. Test free, medium sized, planispirally coiled, rounded periphery, chambers weakly lobate. 3.5–4 chambers in the last whorl increasing slowly in size. Sutures distinct and depressed.

Remarks. Haplophragmoides kirki is smaller, and has 4–4.5 chambers in the last whorl.

Figures

FIGURE 18. Scanning electron micrographs of Trochamminoidae (1-10) and Haplophragmoididae (11-27) from the Caltavuturo Formation cropping out at Portella Colla. 1, Trochamminoides septatus (Grzybowski, 1898), PC060604. 2, Trochamminoides proteus (Karrer, 1866), PC060621. 3, Trochamminoides cf. proteus (Karrer, 1866), PC060624. 4, Trochamminoides velascoensis Cushman, 1926, PC11. 5, Trochamminoides intermedius (Grzybowski, 1896), PC060621. 6, Trochamminoides variolarius (Grzybowski, 1898), MM14. 7, Trochamminoides sp. 1, PC060603. 8, Trochamminoides sp. 2, PC060604. 9, Trochamminoides sp. 3, PC060618. 10, Trochamminoides sp. 4, PC18. 11-13, Haplophragmoides carinatus Cushman and Renz, 1941, PC060621 (11), PC060621 (12) and PC060624 (13). 14-16, Haplophragmoides walteri (Grzybowski, 1898), PC18 (14), PC11 (15), PC5 (16). 17, Haplophragmoides eggeri Cushman, 1926, PC060611. 18, Haplophragmoides excavatus Cushman and Waters, 1927, PC060601. 19, Haplophragmoides cf. kirki Wickenden, 1932, PC060602. 20, Haplophragmoides porrectus Maslakova, 1955, PCs0. 21, Haplophragmoides cf. walteri (Grzybowski, 1898), PC060621. 22, Haplophragmoides horridus (Grzybowski, 1901), PC060601. 23, Haplophragmoides cf. horridus (Grzybowski, 1901), PC060604. 24, Haplophragmoides cf. porrectus Maslakova, 1955, PC060615. 25-26, Haplophragmoides sp. 1, PC060602 (25) and PC060602 (26). 27, Haplophragmoides sp. 2, PC060603. Scale bar equals 0.5 mm.