bforams@mikrotax - Hoeglundina elegans

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Taxonomy

Citation: Hoeglundina elegans (d’Orbigny), 1826

Basionym: Rotalia Turbinulina elegans d’Orbigny, 1826

Synonyms:

Rotalia partschiana d’Orbigny, 1846, p. 153, pl. 7, figs. 28–30; pl. 8, figs. 1–3. [according to Holbourn et al. 2013]
Rotalia flosculiformis Schwager, 1866, p. 262, pl. 7, fig. 109. [according to Holbourn et al. 2013]
Epistomina bradyi Galloway and Wissler, 1927, p. 60, pl. 10, fig. 1. [according to Holbourn et al. 2013]
Epistomina flinti Galloway and Wissler, 1927, p. 61, pl. 9, fig. 16. [according to Holbourn et al. 2013]
Epistomina elegans (d’Orbigny). –Cushman and Jarvis, 1930, p. 365, pl. 34, figs. 1a–c. –LeRoy, 1941, p. 40, pl. 1, figs. 5–7. [according to Holbourn et al. 2013]
Hoeglundina elegans (d’Orbigny). –Bolli et al., 1994, p. 361, figs. 55.6–8, 9a–e. –Bermúdez, 1949, p. 250, pl. 17, figs. 34–36. –Phleger and Parker, 1951, p. 22, pl. 12, figs. 1a, b. –Belford, 1966, p. 190, pl. 36, figs. 8–13. –van Morkhoven et al., 1986, p. 97, pl. 29, figs. 1a, b, 2a, b. –Loeblich and Tappan, 1987, p. 446, pl. 478, figs. 1–5. –Jones, 1994, p. 104, pl. 105, figs. 3–6. –Robertson, 1998, p. 114, pl. 44, fig. 2. –Milker and Schmiedl, 2012, p. 79, figs. 19.15–16. [according to Holbourn et al. 2013]

Taxonomic discussion: Type species of the genus Hoeglundina Brotzen, 1948. [Holbourn et al. 2013]

Description

Test forms a trochospire, subcircular in outline, biconvex in crosssection, with a subacute, keeled periphery. Approximately seven to eight chambers in the last whorl, increasing gradually in size, are separated by thick, flush or slightly depressed sutures, curved on the spiral side, straight and oblique on the umbilical side. Chamber walls are calcareous, aragonitic, smooth, finely perforate, and, in well-preserved specimens, opaque to transparent. The primary aperture is small, interiomarginal, and may be absent in some specimens. The supplementary aperture is an elongate lateromarginal slit, parallel to the peripheral keel and opening on the umbilical side. [Holbourn et al. 2013]

Biogeography and Palaeobiology

Worldwide, except in highest latitudes.

Neritic to bathyal (van Morkhoven et al., 1986). [Holbourn et al. 2013]

Biostratigraphic distribution

Geological Range:
Notes: Late Eocene (Priabonian) to Recent.
Last occurrence (top): Extant. Data source:
First occurrence (base): within Priabonian Stage (33.89-37.75Ma, base in Priabonian stage). Data source:

Plot of occurrence data:
NB The ranges given for genera and higher taxa are the total ranges of species included in that taxon in this database - so the true total range of the taxon will usually be longer

References:

Belford, D. J. (1966). Miocene and Pliocene smaller foraminifera from Papua and New Guinea. Australia Bureau of Mineral Resources Geology and Geophysics, Bulletin. 79: 1-306. gs

Bermúdez, P. J. (1949). Tertiary Smaller Foraminifera of the Dominican Republic. Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research, Special Publication. 25(25): 1-322. gs

Bolli, H. M., Beckmann, J. P. & Saunders, J. B. (1994). Benthic Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy of the South Caribbean Region. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 1-408. gs

Brady, H. B. (1884). Report on the foraminifera dredged by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. 9: 1-814. gs

Cushman, J. A. & Jarvis, P. W. (1930). Miocene foraminifera from Buff Bay, Jamaica. Journal of Paleontology. 4: 353-368. gs

Galloway, J. J. & Wissler, S. G. (1927). Pleistocene foraminifera from the Lomita Quarry, Palos Verdes Hills, California. Journal of Paleontology. 1: 35-87. gs

Holbourn, A., Henderson, A. S. & MacLeod, N. (2013). Atlas of Benthic Foraminifera. Natural History Museum, London. 1-651. gs

Jones, R. W. (1994). The Challenger Foraminifera. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 1-149. gs

LeRoy, L. W. (1941a). A new species of Cibicides from the lower Pliocene (Repetto Formation) of Southern California. Journal of Paleontology. 15(6): 622-623. gs

Loeblich, A. R. Jr & Tappan, H. (1987). Foraminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York. 1-970. gs

Milker, Y. & Schmiedl, G. (2012). A taxonomic guide to modern benthic shelf foraminifera of the western Mediterranean Sea. Palaeontologia Electronica. 15(2;16A ): 1-134. gs

Parker, W. K., Jones, T. R. & Brady, H. B. (1871b). The species founded upon the figures in Soldani’s “Testaceographia ac Zoophytographia”. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 7: 238-266. gs

Phleger, F. B. & Parker, F. L. (1951). Ecology of foraminifera, northwest Gulf of Mexico. Part II – Foraminifera species. Geological Society of America, Memoir. 46: 1-64. gs

Poag, C. W. (2015). Benthic Foraminifera of the Gulf of Mexico: Distribution, Ecology, Paleoecology. Texas A&M University Press. 1-224. gs

Robertson, B. E. (1998). Systematics and paleoecology of the benthic foraminiferida from the Buff Bay section, Miocene of Jamaica. Micropaleontology. 44 supplement 2: 1-266. gs

Schwager, C. (1866). Fossile Foraminiferen von Kar Nicobar. Novara Expedition 1857-59 Report, Wien. 2: 187-268. gs

Terquem, O. (1878). Les Foraminifères et les Entomostracés-Ostracodes du Pliocène Supérieur de l’île de Rhodes. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France. 1: 1-135. gs

van Morkhoven, F. P. C. M., et al. (1986). Cenozoic cosmopolitan deep-water benthic foraminifera. Bulletin des Centres de Recherches Exploration-Production Elf-Aquitaine. Memoire 11: 1-421. gs

Hoeglundina elegans

Taxonomy

Description

Biogeography and Palaeobiology

Biostratigraphic distribution

References:

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