Lituoloidea

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

The genus name "Ammobaculites" means "sandy walking stick". As you can seem the early chambers (at bottom) coil like the top of a cane, but later chambers grow in a straight line. Individual isolated from the Hamble estuary, southern England. Image courtesy of Dr. Elisabeth Alve, University of Oslo.  Citation: Alve, E. and Murray, J.W. Ecology and taphonomy of benthic foraminifera in a temperate mesotidal inlet. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 24:18-27.

A closer view of the aperture. Aperture morphology is one of the important diagnostic characteristics for foram identification.  Image courtesy of Elisabeth Alve, University of Oslo. Originally published in J. Foram. Res. 16: 261-284; used with permission.

Specimens were isolated from surface sediments samples collected in Kongsfjorden, Isfjorden and Adventfjorden during the cruise of r/v « Oceania » between 22 July and 2 August 2004. The sediment samples were sieved at 500 um and 125 um sized meshes, and living specimens were picked under dissecting microscope on board. The specimens were photographed, measured and fixed for further DNA extraction. Source: http://www.iopan.gda.pl/projects/biodaff/EMBS-06.html

Ammoscalaria pseudospiralis sensu Jones, R.W. 1994. The Challenger Foraminifera. Image source: Brady, H.B. (1884) Pl. 33

Eratidus foliaceus sensu Jones, R.W. 1994. The Challenger Foraminifera. Image source: Brady, H.B. (1884) Pl. 33

Buzasina galeata sensu Jones, R.W. 1994. The Challenger Foraminifera. Image source: Brady, H.B. (1884) Pl. 40

Publication: Loeblich, A.R., Tappan, H., 1994. Foraminifera of the Sahul Shelf and Timor Sea. Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research Special Publication 31, 13–630 Plate 9 Figures 1–4 Figure caption: 1, Holotype (USNM 469535) from V -276, x 50. 2, Paratype (USNM 469536) from V -27 4, x 50. 3, 4, Paratype (USNM 469537) from V -266, x 50. (p. 17) Image upload permission granted by the Cushman Foundation.

Image source: Cushman, J.A. 1921. Foraminifera of the Philippine and adjacent seas. Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus. 100(4).

Reuss, A. E. (1854). Beiträge zur Charakteristik der Kreideschichten in den Ostalpen, besonders im Gosauthale und am Wolfgangsee. Denkschriften der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, mathematisch-naturwissenschafliche Classe. 7 (1): 1; 62-73(text); 155-156(pls)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/193284#/summary page(s): p. 65 pl. 25 fig. 1-2

Publication: Loeblich, A.R., Tappan, H., 1994. Foraminifera of the Sahul Shelf and Timor Sea. Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research Special Publication 31, 13–630 Plate 7 Figures 1–7 Figure caption: 1,2, Hypotype (lJSNM 469510) from V-171, x 187. 3,4, Hypotype (USNM 469512) from V -13. x 200. 5,6, Hypotype (USNM 469511) from V-l71. x 125.7, Hypotype (USNM 469529) from V-168, x250. (p. 16) Image upload permission granted by the Cushman Foundation.

This "top" view emphasizes the flattened morphology of the test and aperture. Image courtesy of Elisabeth Alve, University of Oslo. Originally published in J. Foram. Res. 16: 261-284; used with permission.

Collected in Sandebukta, an inlet of the Oslofjord in Norway. Image courtesy of Elisabeth Alve, University of Oslo. Originally published in J. Foram. Res. 16: 261-284; used with permission.

Haplophragmoides sp.nov1. sensu Jones, R.W. 1994. The Challenger Foraminifera. Image source: Brady, H.B. (1884) Pl. 43

Haplophragmium psevdospirale in: Image source: Goës, A. 1894. A Synopsis of the Arctic and Scandinavian recent marine Foraminifera hitherto discovered. Kong. Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 25(9): 1-127 + 25 pls. (Notae numerorum tenues mensuram indicant millimetricam).

Glaphyrammina americana sensu Jones, R.W. 1994. The Challenger Foraminifera. Image source: Brady, H.B. (1884) Pl. 34

Ammobaculites calcareus sensu Jones, R.W. 1994. The Challenger Foraminifera. Image source: Brady, H.B. (1884) Pl. 33

Image source: Cushman, J.A. 1920. The Foraminifera of the Atlantic Ocean. Part 2. Lituolidae. Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus. 104.

Image source: Cushman, J.A. 1921. Foraminifera of the Philippine and adjacent seas. Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus. 100(4).

This specimen has an unusual widening near the aperture. Image courtesy of Elisabeth Alve, University of Oslo. Originally published in J. Foram. Res. 16: 261-284; used with permission.

A closeup of the aperture, which lies at the top of the largest chamber. Image courtesy of Elisabeth Alve, University of Oslo. Originally published in J. Foram. Res. 16: 261-284; used with permission.

Haplophragmoides sp.nov2. sensu Jones, R.W. 1994. The Challenger Foraminifera. Image source: Brady, H.B. (1884) Pl. 34

Image source: Höglund, H. 1947. Foraminifera in the Gullmar fjord and the Skagerak. Zoologiska Bidrag från Uppsala 26: 1-328 + 32 pls. Uploaded with written permission from the copyright owners Annalena Höglund and Jan Höglund.