Triloculina insignis (Brady, 1881)

Symphonia, Tabita K. & Senthil, Nathan D., 2019, Taxonomic notes on Recent Foraminifera from the Continental Shelf-Slope Region of Southwestern Bay of Bengal, East Coast of India, Palaeontologia Electronica (55 A) 22 (3), pp. 1-89 : 69

Triloculina insignis (Brady, 1881)

Figure 20.11-12

1881 Miliolina insignis Brady , p. 45.

1999 Triloculina insignis (Brady) ; Nigam and Khare, p. 292, pl. 3, fig. 4.

2014 Triloculina insignis (Brady) ; Panchang and Nigam, pl. 13, fig. 3a-c.

Description. Test subcircular, wall calcareous, imperforate, surface ornamented with many longitudinal costae; chambers inflated, arranged in a triloculine plan; peripheral margin carinate, periphery subrounded, sutures depressed; aperture terminal, circular opening on a short neck, bordered by a thin, slightly everted rim, with a prominent bifid tooth raised to be seen above the periphery of the aperture.

Figures

FIGURE 20. 1, Parahauerinoides fragilissima (Brady, 1884) in dorsal view (scale equals 300 μm). 2, Pseudotriloculina sp., in dorsal view (scale equals 100 μm). 3, Pyrgo denticulata (Brady, 1884) in ventral view (scale equals 500 μm). 4. Pyrgo inornata (d’Orbigny, 1846) in ventral view (scale equals 300 μm). 5-6, Pyrgo oblonga (d’Orbigny, 1839a) in dorsal view (scale equals 300 μm) (5) and in ventral view (scale equals 300 μm) (6). 7, Pyrgo sp. in ventral view (scale equals 300 μm). 8, Pyrgo williamsoni (Silvestri, 1923) in ventral view (scale equals 300 μm). 9-10, Triloculina echinata d’Orbigny, 1826 in dorsal view (scale equals 200 μm) (9) and in ventral view (scale equals 200 μm) (10). 11-12, Triloculina insignis (Brady, 1881) in dorsal view (scale equals 300 μm) (11) and in ventral view (scale equals 200 μm) (12). 13-14, Triloculina oblonga (Montagu, 1803) in dorsal view (scale equals 300 μm) (13) and in ventral view (scale equals 300 μm) (14). 15, Triloculina schreiberiana d’Orbigny, 1839a in dorsal view (scale equals 200 μm). 16-17, Triloculina terquemiana (Brady, 1884) in lateral view (scale equals 400 μm) (16) and in dorsal view (scale equals 300 μm) (17). 18, Triloculina tricarinata d’Orbigny, 1826 in apertural view (scale equals 200 μm).