Haplophragmoides excavatus Cushman and Waters, 1927

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 excavatus Cushman and Waters, 1927

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1927 Haplophragmoides excavatus ; Cushman and Waters, p. 82, pl. 10, fig. 3a-b.

2005 Haplophragmoides excavatus Cushman and Waters ; Kaminski and Gradstein, p. 360, pl. 82, figs. 1-7.

Material. Four specimens from three samples.

Description. Test free, subcircular in outline, planispirally involute coiled with depressed umbilicus, lobate and carinate periphery. Chambers (12–13 in the last whorl) increase very slowly in size. Sutures few incise. Wall finely agglutinated, surface smooth.

Distribution. Late Cretaceous–Oligocene ( Kaminski and Gradstein, 2005).

Remarks. Haplophragmoides excavatus differs from H. carinatus and H. walteri in having a more circular periphery, and a greater number of 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.