Facetocochlea pulchra (Cushman)

Hanagata, S & Nobuhara, T, 2015, Illustrated guide to Pliocene foraminifera from Miyakojima, Ryukyu Island Arc, with comments on biostratigraph, Palaeontologia Electronica (Cambridge, England) 33 (8), pp. 1-142 : 102

Facetocochlea pulchra (Cushman)

Figures 30.13, 30.14

1933 Pulvinulinella pulchra Cushman (b), p. 92, pl. 9, fig. 10.

1964 Neoconorbina pacifica LeRoy , p. F36, pl. 4, figs. 26—28.

1988 Epistominella pulchra (Cushman) — Marle, p. 143, pl. 5, figs. 13—15.

1992 Epistominella pulchra (Cushman) — Hatta and Ujiié (b), pp. 187, 188, pl. 36, fig. 2.

1994 Facetocochlea pulchra (Cushman) — Loeblich and Tappan, p. 145, pl. 304, figs. 1— 10.

Remarks. This species had been assigned to the genus Epistominella until Loeblich and Tappan

(1994) erected Facetocochlea based on the pres-

ence of rows of large pores on the spiral side of the test.

Occurrence. Rare in the Onogoshi and Minebari formations.

Figures

FIGURE 30. Family Parrelloididae, Pseudoparrellidae, Discorbinellidae, and Planulinidae. All scale bars = 0.1mm. 1—4. Cibicidoides pachyderma (Rzehak), 1: MPC-26203 from sample MK01 (Yonahama Formation, PL2); 2: MPC- 26204 from sample 4-2 (Minebari F., PL5); 3: MPC-26205 from sample 3-2-up-sand (Onogoshi F., PL1); 4: MPC- 26206 from sample 5-2 (Minebari F., PL5); 3 and 4, inflate-chamber variation. 5, 6. Cibicidoides sp.A, 5: MPC-26207, 6: MPC-26208, both from sample MK01 (Yonahama F., PL2). 7, 8. Parrelloides bradyi (Trauth), 7: MPC-26409 from sample 7 (Yonahama F., PL4); 8: MPC-26410 from sample MK01 (Yonahama F., PL2). 9, 10. Alabaminoides exiguus (Brady), 9: MPC-26108 from sample MK01 (Yonahama F., PL2); 10: MPC-26109 from sample MK02A (Minebari F., PL5). 11, 12. Eilohedra rotunda (Husezima and Maruhasi), 11: MPC-26230 from sample 1-2 (Minebari F., PL5); 12: MPC-26231 from sample MK02B (Minebari F., PL5). 13, 14. Facetocochlea pulchra (Cushman), 13: MPC-26255 from sample 3-2-low-silt (Onogoshi F., PL1); 14: MPC-26256 from sample 5-2 (Minebari F., PL5). 15. Discorbinella montereyensis Cushman and Martin, MPC-26223 from sample 12 (Minebari F., PL5). 16, 17. Laticarinina pauperata (Parker and Jones), 16: MPC-26348 from sample 7 (Yonahama F., PL4); 17: MPC-26349 from sample MK01 (Yonahama F., PL2). 18—21. Hyalinea balthica (Schröter), 18: MPC-26328 from sample MK01 (Yonahama F., PL2); 19: MPC-26329 from sample MK02B (Minebari F., PL5); 20: MPC-26330 from sample 5 (Minebari F., PL5); 21: MPC- 26331 from sample 5-2 (Minebari F., PL5); 20 and 21, inflated-chamber variation.