Glomospira diffundens Cushman and Renz, 1946

Besen, Richard M., Struck, Ulrich & Seibertz, Ekbert, 2021, Albian to Turonian agglutinated foraminiferal assemblages of the Lower Saxony Cretaceous sub-basins - implications for sequence stratigraphy and paleoenvironmental interpretation, Fossil Record 24 (2), pp. 395-441 : 407

Glomospira diffundens Cushman and Renz, 1946

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1946. Glomospira gordialis (Jones and Parker) var. diffundens Cushman and Renz , p. 15, pl. 1, fig. 30.

1984. Glomospira gordialis diffundens Cushman and Renz. ; Hemleben and Troester, p. 519, pl. 1, fig. 21.

2005. Glomospira diffundens Cushman and Renz ; Kaminski and Gradstein, p. 175, pl. 23, figs. 1–9.

Material

A total of 9 specimens from the Baddeckenstedt section, 9 specimens from the Söhlde section, 48 specimens from the Wunstorf Wu2010/1 core, 66 specimens from the Wunstorf Wu2010/3 core, and 55 specimens from the Wunstorf Wu2010/4 core.

Occurrence

Common to very rare at Wunstorf and very rare at Baddeckenstedt and at Söhlde.

Figures

Figure 6. Late Albian to Turonian agglutinated foraminifera from the Lower Saxonian Cretaceous; scale bars are 100 µm. (a) Saccammina grzybowski, Wunstorf Wu2010/1, 54.00 m. (b) Psammosphaera fusca, Wunstorf Wu2010/1, 59.05 m. (c) Tipeammina elliptica, Söhlde section, 31.00 m. (d–e) Tipeammina sp. 1, Wunstorf Wu2010/4, 43.30m. (f) Hyperammina gaultina, Wunstorf Wu 2010/4, 48.20 m. (g–h) Ammolagena clavata, two specimens sticking together, Wunstorf Wu2010/3, 25.50 m. (i) Ammolagena contorta, possibly previously attached on an inoceramid prism, Wunstorf Wu2010/4, 38.20 m. (j) Caudammina ovula, Söhlde section, 31.00m. (k) Subreophax scalaris, Wunstorf Wu2010/1, 69.10 m. (l) Ammodiscus cretaceus, Wunstorf Wu 2010/4, 48.20 m. (m) Ammodiscus glabratus, Wunstorf Wu2010/1, 54.65m. (n) Ammodiscus peruvianus, Wunstorf Wu2010/1, 54.00 m. (o) Ammodiscus tenuissimus, Wunstorf Wu2010/4, 43.30 m. (p) Glomospira diffundens, Wunstorf Wu2010/1, 49.05 m. (q) Glomospira gordialis, Wunstorf Wu 2010/3, 66.05 m. (r) Repmanina charoides, Wunstorf Wu2010/4, 38.20m. (s) Lituotuba lituiformis, Wunstorf Wu 2010/4, 48.95m. (t) Rzehakina minima, Wunstorf Wu2010/1, 54.80 m.