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Kartalina kayabasiensis Sirel, 2012
Description Sirel, E. (2012). Seven new larger benthic foraminiferal genera from the Paleocene of Turkey. Revue de Paléobiologie. 31(2): 267-301.page(s): p. 282, Pl. VII, figs. 1-19 (holotype fig. 13).
Fig.1-19: Kartalina kayabasiensis n.gen. n.sp Late Selandian-early Thanetian, figs. 1-12 from the Kayabaşı section (Fig. 6); figs. 13-19 from the Bahçecik section (from Sirel, 2009, fig. 4), figs. 1, 2, 4, 5, 7-11 microspheric, figs. 12-19 megalospheric forms; all figs. X 30, 1: Centered oblique section, inclined to the equatorial plane, showing two rows of quinqueloculine cycles and biloculine adult chambers (Kar. 5/1), 2: Centered axial section, showing two cycles of quinqueloculine chambers in the early stage and three rows of biloculine chambers, (Kar. 5/4), 3: Non centered axial section, A form?, (Kar. 6/2), 4: Oblique axial section, (Kar. 5/3), 5: Centered equatorial section, (Kar. 5/12), 6: Non centered axial section, A form?, (Kar. 5/6), 7: Axial section, showing quinqueloculine early and divided biloculine adult chambers, (Kar. 5/5), 8: Centered axial section, showing quinqueloculine early and divided biloculine adult chambers, (Kar. 5/9), 9: Non centered axial section, A form, (Kar. 5/8), 10: Non centered axial section, (Kar. 5/7), 11: Almost axial section, probably two cycles of quinqueloculine early and divided biloculine adult chambers, (Kar. 5/12), 12: Axial section, showing megalosphere with bottle-neck, triloculine early and divided biloculine chambers, (64/2), 13: Axial section, showing large megalosphere with bottle-neck, triloculine early and divided biloculine chambers, (64/3), 14: Equatorial section, showing large megalosphere with bottle-neck following triloculine early and biloculine adult chambers. Trematophore was not observed, (64/4), 15: Axial section, showing large megalosphere followed by one row of triloculine and divided biloculine chambers, (64/5), 16: Oblique section, inclined to equatorial plane, (64/6), 17: Incomplete axial section, (64/7), 18: Axial section, (64/8), 19: Axial section, (64/9). PNG file - 515.66 kB - 634 x 1 023 pixels added on 2025-06-3020 viewsWoRMS taxa Kartalina kayabasiensis Sirel, 2012 †checked Le Coze, François 2025-06-30
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