Valvulina flexilis Cushman and Renz, 1941

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 : 49

Valvulina flexilis Cushman and Renz, 1941

Figure 20.22

1941 Valvulina flexilis ; Cushman and Renz, p. 7, pl. 1, figs. 16, 17.

Material. One single specimen from the sample PC060604.

Description. Test free, triseriate, extending rapidly from a subacute apex. Periphery lobate, chambers rounded and inflated increasing rapidly in size; sutures incise. Aperture at the base of the last chamber; wall thick and coarsely agglutinated.

Distribution. Late Oligocene of the Agua Salada Formation ( Cushman and Renz, 1941).

Figures

FIGURE 20. Scanning electron micrographs of Trochamminoidea (1-11, 13), Ataxophragmiidae (12, 17, 20-21), and Textulariina (14-16, 18-19, 22-23) from the Caltavuturo Formation cropping out at Portella Colla. 1, Trochammina sp. 1, PC060601. 2, Trochammina sp. 2, PC060601. 3, Trochammina sp. 3, PC060601. 4, Trochammina sp. 4, PC060604. 5, Trochammina sp. 5, PC060605. 6-10, Karrerulina conversa (Grzybowski, 1901), PC060615 (6), PC018 (7), PC11 (8), PC060615 (9) and PCs0 (10). 11, Karrerulina horrida (Mjatliuk, 1970), PC060617. 12, Remesella varians (Glaessner, 1937), PC060601. 13, Gaudryina sp., PC1. 14, Eggerella compressa (Andreae, 1884), PC13. 15, Eggerella sp. 1, PC3. 16, Eggerella sp. 2, PC3. 17, Arenobulimina sp., PC060602. 18, Siphotextularia sp. 1, PC060621. 19, Siphotextularia sp. 2, PC060621. 20, Tetraxiella subtilissima PCs0. 21, Gravellina sp., PC060618. 22, Valvulina flexilis Cushman and Renz, 1941, PC060604. 23, Valvulina sp., PC060621. Scale bars equal 0.5 mm.