Trochamminoides coronatus ( Brady, 1879 )

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 : 33

Trochamminoides coronatus ( Brady, 1879)

Figure 17.4

1879 Trochammina coronata ; Brady, p. 39, pl. 5, fig. 15.

1977 Trochamminoides coronatus Brady ; Krasheninnikov and Pflaumann, p. 570, pl. 4, fig. 4a, b.

Material. 14 specimens from seven samples.

Description. Test free, large, biconcave, composed of few whorls arranged in a low trochospire. Chambers globose and elongated, sutures distinct, periphery lobate. Aperture simple at the end of the last chamber.

Figures

FIGURE 17. Scanning electron micrographs of Lituotubidae (1-3, 7, 9, 11-12) and Trochamminoidae (4-6, 8, 10) from the Caltavuturo Formation cropping out at Portella Colla. 1-2, Paratrochamminoides heteromorphus (Grzybowski, 1898), MM12 (1) and MM14 (2). 3, Conglophragmium irregulare (White, 1928), PCs0. 4, Trochamminoides coronatus (Brady, 1879), MM14. 5, Trochamminoides grzybowskii Kaminski and Geroch, 1992, MM1. 6, Trochamminoides subcoronatus (Grzybowski, 1896), MM1. 7, Paratrochamminoides cf. olszewskii (Grzybowski, 1898), PC060615. 8, Trochamminoides dubius (Grzybowski, 1901), PC060611. 9, Paratrochamminoides olszewskii (Grzybowski, 1898), PC11. 10, Trochamminoides dubius (Grzybowski, 1901), PC060611. 11, Paratrochamminoides aff. olszewskii (Grzybowski, 1898), PC060615. 12, Paratrochamminoides aff. gorayskii (Grzybowski, 1898), PC060615. Scale bars equal 0.5 mm.