Trochamminoides velascoensis Cushman, 1926

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 : 35

Trochamminoides velascoensis Cushman, 1926

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1926 Trochamminoides velascoensis ; Cushman, p. 583, pl. 15, fig. 2a, b.

2005 Trochamminoides velascoensis (Cushman) ; Kender, Kaminski, and Cieszkowski, p. 264, fig. 12K.

Material. Three specimens from three samples.

Description. Test free, subcircular in outline, planispirally coiled. Numerous subrectangular and flattened chambers (10 in the last whorl). Suture few evident.

Distribution. Trochamminoides velascoensis was firstly described from the Velasco Formation of Mexico ( Cushman, 1926), and recently signaled from the Eocene of Carpathians ( Kender et al., 2005).

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.