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ACT A PAL A EON T 0 LOG ICA POLONICA EWA LUCZKOWSKA MILIOLIDAE (FORAMINIFERIDA) FROM THE MIOCENE OF POLAND PART II. BIOSTRATIGRAPHY, PALAEOECOLOGY AND SYSTEMATICS CONTENTS Page Abstract 3 General Part Introduction 3 Material 5 Methods .... 6 History of studies on the Miliolidae 9 Biostratigraphy 13 Palaeoecology . 20 Detailed Part Morphology of tests 28 Ontogeny 29 Related forms. ... 31 Intergeneric transition forms . 32 Systematic Part Description of species . 34 References 153 Index of species . 160 Abstract. - Descriptions are given of 103 species and subspecies of the Miliolidae from the Miocene of Poland, including 9 new species and 1 new name. A new genus, Articularia, and a new subfamily, Sigmoilinitinae, comprising species which show a sigmoiline initial stage and not a quinqueloculine or cryptoquinqueloculine one, have also been separated. The distribution and stratigraphic range of the species under study in the Tortonian and Sarmatian of Poland have been discussed and the hypothetical palaeoecologic conditions prevailing in the coastal facies of the Miocene sea reconstructed. GENERAL PART INTRODUCTION hi Poland the Miliolidae occur chiefly in the coastal facies of the Miocene of the Precarpathian Foredeep, i.e. at its northern border - in Upper Silesia, the Miech6w region, Holy-Cross Mts. and Roztocze Mts.- 4 EWA LUCZKOWSKA and in a few places at the southern border, e.g. in the regions of Wado­ wice, Rzeszow and Nowy Sqcz. In smaller numbers they also occur in the facies of the central part of the Foredeep (Text-fig. 1). As regards strati­ graphy, these Miocene deposits of Poland represent the Lower and Upper Fig. 1. Distribution of localities and boreholes in which Miliolidae have been found in the Miocene of Poland: 1-Northern border of the occurrence of Miocene deposits; 2 - Northern border of the Carpathian overthrust 3 -localities: A - Andrzej6wka, B - Benczyn, Bo - Bogoria, Bog. - Bogucice, Br - Brzeznica, Brz - Brzozowa, Ch­ Chelm n/Rabq, Cw - Choment6w, D- Dmosice, Dw - Dwikozy, G- Gacki, Gd­ Gieraszowice, Gs - Gliwice Stare, Gw - G6ry Wysokie, Gr - Grabowiec, Gd­ Grudna Dolna, 1-Iwkowa, Ka - Karsy, Ki - Kichary, Ko - Korytnica, L- Ligota Zabrska, /:"0 - Lojowice, M- Milczany, My - Mlyny, N- Niechobrz, Ni - Niskowa, P-Pobitno, R-Rybnica, S-Samostrza16w, S-Swiniary, W~-WE:glinek, Wi­ Wiqzownica, Wl- Wieliczka, Wa - Wielog6ra, Z- Zabawa, Zg - Zglobice, Z. - Ze­ gocina; 4 - boreholes: BU - Budy-l, CZ - Czechowice, DZ - Dzialoszyce, G- Gac­ ki-l and Gacki-4, GD - Grabki Duze N-8, GW - Grzyb6w x4 and Grzyb6w x5, KR - Krywald, L - Lapczyca-l, 2 and 3, /:.,D - L~ki Dolne-l, MW - Mach6w, MO - Miechocin 0-3, MC - Mielec-6, MY - Mlyny-l, MA - Mokrzysz6w A-3, N­ Niwiska-2, NI - Niwka-l, PR - Przecisz6w, RY - Rytwiany-l, S - Sieradza-l, SO- Solec, WH - Wieliczka H-l, wZ - Wola Zyzna, WO- Wolica, ZR - Zrecze-3. Tortonian (Badenian - acc. to the suggestion of the Committee on Medi­ terranean Neogene Stratigraphy, Papp et al., 1968) and the Lower Sarmatian. The proposals concerning the classification of the Miliolidae on the basis of their internal structure and the shape of aperture have been presented in Part I (Luczkowska, 1972). Part II comprises data about the distribution and stratigraphic range of the Miliolidae in the Miocene of MILIOLIDAE FROM MIOCENE OF POLAND 5 Poland, the discussion of the rich material studied, and the descriptions of 103 species and subspecies. Specimens are stored in the Department of Palaeontology and Stratigraphy, Academy of Mining and Metallurgy in Cracow. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I consider it my duty to express my heartfelt thanks to all those who contributed to the completion of this work in any way. In the first place r thank A. K. Bogdanowich of the KFWNII in the USRR for sparing me so much time for discussions, consultations and correspondence and for his very valuable remarks on the classification of some genera and species. r am also greatly indebted to the following micropalaeontologists: R. Grill and A. Tollmann from Austria, 1. Zapletalova, R. Lehotayova and E. Brestenska from Czechoslovakia, K. Atkinson from England, Y. Le Calvez and G. Gla<;on from France, H. Hiltermann from Western Germany, R. Nyir6 and 1. Korecz-Laky from Hungary, and V. 1. Didkovsky, O. Dja­ nelidze, V. A. Krasheninnikov, L. S. Pishvanova, M. J. Serova and 1. V. Venglinsky from the USSR, for personal discussions, correspondence and supplying me with literature and comparative material. r am indebted to Prof. O. Pazdro, Prof. K. Pozaryska and Assist. Prof. S. Alexandrowicz for their valuable advice concerning many problems emerging in the course of work and their penetrating criticism of the study as a whole. r thank Prof. W. Krach for comparative materials from the Miocene of Austria, Hungary and Romania that r received from him. I am also very grateful to Assist. Prof. S. Liszka, Dr T. Smigielska and my Colleagues, micropalaeontologists, for their kind assistance and helpful remarks, and to Dr F. Szymakowska for copying all the text-figures. Special thanks are due to my husband, B. Schiller, for keeping me company patiently during my work, helping with collection of materials, discussing different problems and giving critical advice as well as for reading and correcting the typescript. MATERIAL The material for study was obtained from outcrops and drill cores. Its collection and preparation was carried out partly during the author's regular work and was partly enabled by a commission she received from the Institute of Geology in Warsaw and grants from the Committee for Geology, Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow. The comparative material coming from the Miocene of other countries and recent seas was rendered accessible or delivered to the author by the micropalaeontologists mentioned in the acknowledgments. The list of localities and the sorts of materials used in this investigation are presented below. 6 EWA LUCZKOWSKA Poland. Outcrops. Lower Tortonian: Benczyn, Brzozowa, Choment6w, Gacki, Grudna Dolna, Iwkowa, Karsy, Korytnica, Wieliczka, Zegocina. Upper Tortonian: Bogucice, Brzeznica, Chelm n/RabCl, Gliwice Stare, Grabowiec, Ligota Zabrska, Niskowa, Pobitno, Rybnica, Swiniary, WE:glinek, Zabawa, Zglobice. Sarmatian: Andrzej6wka, Bogoria, Dmosice, Dwikozy, Gieraszowice, G6ry Wysokie, Kichary, Lojowice, Milczany, Mlyny, Rybnica, Samostrza16w, Swiniary, WiClzownica, Wielog6ra. Bore holes. Tortonian and Sarmatian: Budy 1, Czechowice 1, Dzialoszyce, Gacki 1 and 2, Grabki Duze N-8, Grzyb6w x4 and x5, Krywald, Lapczyca 1, 2 and 3, LE:ki Dolne 1, Miechocin 03, Mielec 6, Mlyny 1, Mokrzysz6w A3, Niwiska 2, Niwka 1, Przecisz6w, Rytwiany 1, Sieradza 1, Solec 103, 105-108, Wieliczka HI, Wola Zyzna 104, Wolica 101, Zrecze 3. Other countries Eocene: France. - Grignon. Oligocene: Berlin (Hermsdorf). Miocene (Tortonian and Sarmatian): Austria. - Baden (Sooss), Eisenstadt, Frattingsdorf, Nexing, Nussdorf, Ritzing, Siebenhiirten, Steinabrunn, Wiesen, Voslau. Czechoslovakia. - Devinska Nova Ves, Zidlochovice. Hungary. - Hidas, Samsonhaza, Varpalota, Tekeres. Italy.­ Tortona (S. Agata Fossili), Sicily. Romania. - Buitur, Lapugiu. Pliocene: Castell Arquato (Emilia, Italy), Palermo (Sicily). Recent: Adriatic Sea (Sibenic, Grado, Val Muggia, Rovinj, Punta Grossa near Trieste); Mediterranean Sea (Haifa, Villefranche); Aegean Sea, from depths of 150 and 250 m; Tyrrhenian Sea, 23 m; Black Sea (Bosphorus region, 95 m; region border­ ing on Bosphorus, 15, 87, 93 and 98 m; Tuapse region, 47 m; Skadovsk region, 0.5 and 6.0 m); Gulf of Aden, 86 m; Arabian Sea, Omanian coast, 60 m; Indian Ocean, S of Bombay, 80 m, W of Bombay, 120 m; England (Bognor, Sussex, English Channel); Helgoland; Bergen Fiord. METHODS Two characters were used as main taxonomic criteria in determining genera: the internal structure of the test and the type of the aperture, because the number of chambers seen from the outside appeared to be a secondary character, as it is often the same in different genera (Part I, Luczkowska, 1972). In the diagnoses and descriptions of species the author confined herself to the discussion of the front side of the test, in which the number of visible chambers is larger, and the apertural view, which is very important in identifying species. The back or small-chambered side adds no new features to the description. The terminology used in the descriptions is elucidated in Text-fig. 2. In the descriptions of species of the genus Quinqueloculina two stages have been indicated, the quinqueloculine stage (QS) and the massiline stage (MS) 1), because a single stage does not cover the morphological data of the species. The dimensions are given for the smallest and the largest specimen of a given species and in the case of the genus Quinqueloculina also separately for the quinqueloculine and massiline forms. 1) The abbreviations QS and MS have been introduced in Part I (1972) for the designation of the ontogenetic stages in determining the species of Quinqueloculina. MILIOLIDAE FROM MIOCENE OF POLAND 7 Attempts were made to base the identification of species on materials from the type localities, from which they had been described originally or on materials obtained from the deposits of the same age in the neigh­ bouring area. This is especially true of the species erected by earlier authors, like d'Orbigny, Reuss or Karrer, whose orginal materials were A BOOOOOOOOO 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Fig. 2. Test morphology of Miliolidae: A. Chamber arrangement and dimensions. 1-3 - Quinqueloculina, 4-6 - Pyrgo; 1,4 - front side, 2,5 - back side, 3,6 - apertural view; I, II -last chambers, III, V- central chambers (or middle chambers) of the front side, IV - central chamber of the opposite side (succession of chambers beginn­ ing at the last one); a length, b breadth, c thicknes, d width of the chamber, e aper­ ture edge, f basis of the aperture, g tooth, h periphery or edge. B. Shapes of tests. 1- broadly oval, 2 - oval, 3 - elongate oval, 4 - elongate or slender, 5 - rhom­ boid, 6 - rectangular or quadrangular, 7 - equilateral, 8 - sigmoid, 9 - ovoid.
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    Recent Foraminifera of the Marshall Islands Bikini and Nearby Atolls, Part 2, Oceanography (Biologic) GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 260-H ERRATA SLIP FOR PROFESSIONAL PAPER 260-H In the distribution tables (1-5) italic numbers indicate abundance of the species in percentages of the Foraminifera present in the sample. Arabic numbers indicate actual count of specimens. Recent Foraminifera of the Marshall Islands By JOSEPH A. CUSHMAN, RUTH TODD, and RITA J. POST Bikini and Nearby Atolls, Part 2, Oceanography (Biologic) GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 260-H UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1954 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Douglas McKay, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY W. E. Wrather, Director For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office Washington 25, D. C. - Price $1.75 (paper cover) CONTENTS Page Page ______.____-_-__-____-___-.-..______.____ 319 Systematic descriptions—Continued Introduction- ______---_-____--__-__-_-____-____--__ 319 Trochamminidae. _______________________________ 342 General features_____----------_--_-_-__-________^__ 319 Lagenidae _____________________________________ 342 Fauna of reef flats.__.--________-_-___._________ 319 Polymorphinidae_ ________-_-_-_----_--_-_-_-_-_ 344 Fauna of lagoons_______________________________ 320 Nonionidae_ __-__________________---_-----_---_ 345 Fauna of outer slopes. __.-_.____-_-_. ___________ 321 Camerinidae ___________________________________ 346 Fauna of deep water. ___________________________ 321 Peneroplidae___________________________________ 348 Sylvania Guyot core.______________^___-____ 322 Alveolinellidae________________________________ 348 Species restricted to guyot-__.___-_-.-_______ 322 Heterohelicidae- ________________________________ 349 Nondiagnostic species._________----_-__^________ 323 Buliminidae_- _ _________-_______-_-__--_--___--_ 349 Notes on distribution by families.
  • Cushman Laboratory Foraminiferal Research

    Cushman Laboratory Foraminiferal Research

    CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE CUSHMAN LABORATORY FOR FORAMINIFERAL RESEARCH VOLUME 25, PART 4 December, 1949 Contents 11.AGE Ne. 330. Foraminifera from rhe Eocene, Verdun Formation, of Peru .. 7~ N0. 331. Species of the Genus Chilostemella and Related Genera ............•. ,.... 84 No. 332. Homonyms in Foraminifera Erected During 'l.948 and 1949 10()) Recent Literature on the Fosaminitera 103 SHARON, MASSACHUSETTS, U. S. A. 1949 CUSHMAN LABORATORY FOR FORAMINIFERAL RESEARCH 9(i) Brook Read, Sharen, Mass., U. S. A. Jos,EPH A. CusHMAN, Sc.D., Director ALICE E. CUSHMAN, Secretary, in charge of Publica#on1 RUTH Toan, M. S., Research Associate RITA ]. JOHNSON, B. A., Laboratory 21.uutant These Contributions will be issued quarterly. They will contain short papers with plates, describing new forms and other interesting notes on the general research work on the foraminifera being done on the group by the workers in this laboratory. New litera• ture as it comes to hand will be briefly reviewed. Subscription $2.SO per year post paid. Volume 1, April 1925~.fanuary 1926 (Reprinted, 1935) $3.00 Volume 2, April 1926-Jarmary 1927 (Reprinted, 1935) $3.00 (Volume 3, part l now out of print.) Volume 3, parts 2-4, June-December, 1927 (Reprinted, 1936) $2.00 Volume 4, parts 1-4, March-December, 1928, complete $2.50 Volume 5, parts !.-4, March-December, 1929, complete $2.50 Index to Volumes 1-5 inclusive $1.00 Volume 6, parts 1-4, March-December, 1930, complete $2.50 Velume 7, parts 1-4, March-December, 1931, complete $2.SO Volume 8, parts 1-4, March-December,
  • 389. Distribution and Ecology of Benthonic Foraminifera in the Sediments of the Andaman Sea W

    389. Distribution and Ecology of Benthonic Foraminifera in the Sediments of the Andaman Sea W

    CO Z':TRIB UTIONS FROM THE CUSHMAN FOUN DATION FOR FORAMIN IFE!RAL RESEARCH 123 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE CUSHMAN FOUNDATION FOR FORAMINIFERAL RESEARCH VOLUM E XXI, PART 4, OCTOBER 1970 389. DISTRIBUTION AND ECOLOGY OF BENTHONIC FORAMINIFERA IN THE SEDIMENTS OF THE ANDAMAN SEA W. E. FRERICHS University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming ABSTRACT the extreme southern and southwestern parts of the Fo raminiferal a..<Jtiemblages in sediments of the Andaman sea (text fig. 1). Sea characterize five fauna l provinces. each of w hich Is de fined by ecologic factors, S lightly euryhallne conditions Cores were split routinely in the laboratory, and and a rela tively coarse grained substrate chal'acteri ze the upper 5 cm of each was sampled for the faunal the delta-front faunal province. Extremely hig h ra tes of analyses. These core sections and representative sedimentation. euryhaline co ndition~. and clay substl'ate are typical of the Gulf o f Mal'taban province. Extre me ly fractions of the grab samples were dried and s low rates of sedimentation a nd a coarse-grained s ub­ weighed and then washed on a 250-mesh Tyler strate characterize the Mergul platform province. Normal screen (0.061 mm openings). salinities and average rates of sedimentation characterize the Andaman-N lcobar R idge faunal province, Sediments Samples used to determine the rel ative abun­ having a h igh organic content and Indicating active solu­ dance of species at the tops of the cores and in the tion of calcium carbonate occur in the basin fa unal PI'ovlnce.