Saccammina grzybowskii ( Schubert, 1902 )

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 : 20-21

Saccammina grzybowskii ( Schubert, 1902)

Figure 12.17

1902 Reophax grzybowskii ; Schubert, p. 20, pl. 1, fig. 13a, b.

2005 Saccammina grzybowskii (Schubert) ;

Kaminski and Gradstein, p. 132, pl. 10, figs. 1-

9. Material. Two specimens from the sample PC060621. Description. Unilocular test, circular in outline, and compressed. Peripheral aperture on a raised neck. Distribution. Cretaceous–Neogene ( Kaminski and Gradstein, 2005).

Figures

FIGURE 12. Scanning electron micrographs of Astrorhizida (1-13) and Saccamminidae (14-15) foraminifers from the Caltavuturo Formation cropping out at Portella Colla. 1-2, Rhabdammina discreta Brady, 1884, PCs0 (1) and PC060618 (2). 3, Rhabdammina eocenica Cushman and Hanna, 1927, PC060601. 4-5, Psammosiphonella cylindrica (Glaessner, 1937), PC11 (4) and PCs0 (5). 6-7, Psammosiphonella linearis (Brady, 1879), PC060618 (6) and PC11 (7). 8, Bathysiphon sp., MM12. 9, Nothia excelsa (Grzybowski, 1898), PC060603. 10, Nothia robusta (Grzybowski, 1898) with Ammolagena clavata (Jones and Parker, 1860), PC060621. 11, Nothia cf. latissima (Grzybowski, 1898), PC060624. 12-13, Rhizammina indivisa Brady, 1884, PC060621. 14-15, Psammosphaera irregularis (Grzybowski, 1896), PC13 (14) and PC22 (15). 16, Placentammna placenta (Grzybowski, 1898), PCs0. 17, Saccammina grzybowskii (Schubert, 1902), PC060621. Scale bar equals 0.5 mm.