Triticites
{{Short description|Genus of foraminifera}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| oldest_fossil = Moscovian
| youngest_fossil = Capitanian
| taxon = Triticites
| authority = Girty, 1904
| type_species = Miliolites secalicus
| type_species_authority = Say, 1823
}}
Triticites ("grain of wheat") is a genus of foraminiferan in the family Schwangerinidae.{{Cite journal |last=Girty |first=George Herbert |date=1904 |title=Triticites, a new genus of Carboniferous foraminifers. |url=https://zenodo.org/record/1694589/files/article.pdf |journal=The American Journal of Science |volume=17 |issue=99 |pages=234–240|doi=10.2475/ajs.s4-17.99.234 |bibcode=1904AmJS...17..234G }} More than four hundred species have been identified.{{Cite web |title=Foraminifera - The World Foraminifera Database - Triticites Girty, 1904 † |url=https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=721846 |access-date=16 August 2024 |website=www.marinespecies.org}}
Description
Triticites shells are fusiform to elongate fusiform in shape,{{Cite journal |last=Burma |first=Benjamin |date=1 November 1942 |title=MISSOURIAN TRITICITES OF THE NORTHERN MID-CONTINENT |url=https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/geosciencefacpub/321/ |journal=Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Faculty Publications}} with poles that are pointed sharply to bluntly. The shell wall consists of a tectum between 5–8 microns thick and keriotheca of varying thickness. In basal species, the alveoli are thin-walled and indistinct. The septa are always irregular and blister-like at the poles, with septal pores that are often conspicuous in the outer volutions. In more basal species, septal fluting is only developed near the polar regions, but in more derived ones it extends, to varying degrees, from the axial to polar regions. The chromata are small.{{Cite journal |last=Ota |first=Yasuhiro |date=2002 |title=Triticites from Shii, Kokuraminami Ward, Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan |url=https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bkmnh/21/0/21_1/_article/-char/en |journal=Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History |volume=21 |pages=1–11 |doi=10.34522/bkmnh.21.0_1}}
Taxonomy
Triticites belongs to the family Schwagerinidae, part of the order Fusulinida. It can be distinguished from the related Schwagerina by its chomata, which are more conspicuous than in Schwagerina.
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