Kalamopsis grzybowskii ( Dylążanka, 1923 )

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 : 36

Kalamopsis grzybowskii ( Dylążanka, 1923)

Figure 14.15-19

1923 Hyperammina grzybowskii ; Dylążanka, p. 65.

1966 Kalamopsis grzybowskii (Dylążanka) ; Geroch, p. 438, fig. 6.

1987 Silicotuba grzybowskii (Dylążanka) ; Loeblich and Tappan, p. 26, pl. 16, figs. 10-13.

2002 Kalamopsis grzybowskii (Dylążanka) ; Holbourn and Henderson, p. 11, figs. 2, 3.

Material. 47 specimens from 12 samples.

Description. Test free, bottle-like, elongated with constrictions, straight or curved, often tubular with longitudinal groove. Aperture terminal at the end of the open part of the chamber. Wall finely agglutinated, smooth surface.

Distribution. Flysh-type cosmopolitan taxon known from the lower Jurassic (?Oxfordian); Kuhnt et al. (2002) signaled K. grzybowskii from the Oligocene of the Southern China Sea.

Figures

FIGURE 14. Scanning electron micrographs of Hormosinelloidea from the Caltavuturo Formation cropping out at Portella Colla. 1, Ammolagena clavata (Jones and Parker, 1860) on a specimen of Psammosiphonella cylindrica (Glaessner, 1937), PCs0. 2, Ammolagena clavata (Jones and Parker, 1860), PC060607. 3-7, Caudammina gutta Benedetti and Pignatti, 2009, PC18. 8, Subreophax cf. guttifer (Brady, 1881), PC15. 9, Subreophax cf. pseudoscalaris (Samuel, 1977), PCs0. 10, Subreophax scalaris (Grzybowski, 1896), PC11. 11-12, Subreophax splendidus (Grzybowski, 1898), PC060624 (11) and PC11 (12). 13, Arthrodendron subnodosiformis (Grzybowski, 1898), PC060615. 14, Arthrodendron grandis (Grzybowski, 1898), PC050515. 15-19, Kalamopsis grzybowskii (Dylążanka, 1923), PC18 (15), PC11 (16), PC18 (17), PC060621 (18) and PC060621 (19). Scale bar equals 0.5 mm.

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.

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.

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.

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.

FIGURE 19. Scanning electron micrographs of Haplophragmoididae (1-6), Sphaeramminidae (7-10), Lituolidae (11- 14), and Recurvoidea (15-25) from the Caltavuturo Formation cropping out at Portella Colla. 1-2, Haplophragmoides cf. latissimusuturalis Smith, 1971, PC3. 3, Haplophragmoides sp. 3, PC060615. 4, Haplophragmoides sp. 4, PC060601. 5, Haplophragmoides sp. 5, PC060615. 6, Haplophragmoides sp. 6, PC060621. 7-8, Praesphaerammina subgaleata (Vašiček, 1947), PC11 (7) and PC1 (8). 9-10, Ammosphaeroidina pseudopauciloculata (Mjatliuk, 1966), PC060604 (9) and PC060604 (10). 11, Ammobaculites agglutinans (d’Orbigny, 1846), PC060615. 12, Ammobaculites sp. 1, PC060607. 13, Ammobaculites sp. 3, PC15. 14, Ammobaculites sp. 2, PC060625. 15-16, Budashevaella multicamerata (Voloshinova and Budasheva, 1961), PC060604. 17, Cribrostomoides subglobosus (Cushman, 1910), PC060604. 18, Recurvoidella lamella (Grzybowski, 1898), PC060601. 19, Recurvoides anormis Mjatliuk, 1970, PC5. 20, Recurvoides sp. 1, PC060601. 21, Recurvoides sp. 2, PC060623. 22, Recurvoides nucleolus (Grzybowski, 1898), MM3. 23, Recurvoides walteri (Grzybowski, 1898), PC5. 24, Trochammina bifaciata Friedberg, 1901, PC060604. 25, Thalmannammina subturbinata (Grzybowski, 1898), MM14. Scale bar equals 0.5 mm.