Subreophax cf. guttifer ( Brady, 1881 )

Benedetti, A, 2017, Eocene / Oligocene deep-water agglutinated foraminifers (DWAF) assemblages from the Madonie Mountains (Sicily, Southern Italy), Palaeontologia Electronica 20 (1), pp. 1-66 : 24

Subreophax cf. guttifer ( Brady, 1881)

Figure 14.8

?1881 Reophax guttifera ; Brady, p. 49.

?1977 Reophax pseudoscalaria ; Samuel, p. 36, pl. 3, fig. 4a, b.

1992 Subreophax cf. guttifer (Brady) ; Morlotti and Kuhnt, p. 223, pl. 3, fig. 5.

Material. Two specimens from two samples.

Description. Test free, subcylindic, three flattened and subcircular chambers, interconnected and oblique respect the axis of growth. Aperture at the end of the last chamber.

Figures

FIGURE 14. Scanning electron micrographs of Hormosinelloidea from the Caltavuturo Formation cropping out at Portella Colla. 1, Ammolagena clavata (Jones and Parker, 1860) on a specimen of Psammosiphonella cylindrica (Glaessner, 1937), PCs0. 2, Ammolagena clavata (Jones and Parker, 1860), PC060607. 3-7, Caudammina gutta Benedetti and Pignatti, 2009, PC18. 8, Subreophax cf. guttifer (Brady, 1881), PC15. 9, Subreophax cf. pseudoscalaris (Samuel, 1977), PCs0. 10, Subreophax scalaris (Grzybowski, 1896), PC11. 11-12, Subreophax splendidus (Grzybowski, 1898), PC060624 (11) and PC11 (12). 13, Arthrodendron subnodosiformis (Grzybowski, 1898), PC060615. 14, Arthrodendron grandis (Grzybowski, 1898), PC050515. 15-19, Kalamopsis grzybowskii (Dylążanka, 1923), PC18 (15), PC11 (16), PC18 (17), PC060621 (18) and PC060621 (19). Scale bar equals 0.5 mm.