The STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABEŞ-BOLYAI issue article summary

The summary of the selected article appears at the bottom of the page. In order to get back to the contents of the issue this article belongs to you have to access the link from the title. In order to see all the articles of the archive which have as author/co-author one of the authors mentioned below, you have to access the link from the author's name.

 
       
         
    STUDIA GEOLOGIA - Issue no. 2 / 2012  
         
  Article:   NEW INSIGHTS INTO TROGLOTELLA INCRUSTANS WERNLI & FOOKES, 1992, A FASCINATING UPPER JURASSIC-UPPER CRETACEOUS FORAMINIFER .

Authors:  FELIX SCHLAGINTWEIT.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  
New data about the highly variable test morphology of the benthic foraminifer Troglotella incrustans WERNLI & FOOKES (Oxfordian-Lower Cenomanian) are presented, permitting an emended species/genus diagnosis.
This concerns mainly the existence of a large final chamber with fistulose extensions that may follow the uniserial or the irregular-branching test part. The way of life of T. incrustans (cryptoendolithic vs. euendolithic) is discussed against the background of different existing models in the literature. The study is based on material (thin-sections and provided photographs) mainly from the Upper Jurassic of Austria, Italy, Romania, Ukraine, and also the type-locality of France. 

Key words: Bioerosion, Lithocodium, Troglotella, foraminifera, boring sponges, Entobia, microbialites.
 
         
     
         
         
      Back to previous page