Subreophax cf. pseudoscalaris ( Samuel, 1977 )

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. pseudoscalaris ( Samuel, 1977)

Figure 14.9

cf. 1977 Reophax pseudoscalaria ; Samuel, p. 35, 36,

pl. 3, fig. 4a, b. cf. 2005 Subreophax pseudoscalaris (Samuel) ;

Kaminski and Gradstein, p. 281, pl. 56, figs. 1-

6 (partim). Material. Five specimens from five samples.

Description. Test free, uniseriate, composed of discoidal, compressed chamber increasing gradually in size.

Distribution. Subreophax pseudoscalaris is described from the Senonian to Lower Eocene ( Kaminski and Gradstein, 2005).

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.