Rhizammina indivisa Brady, 1884

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

Rhizammina indivisa Brady, 1884

Figure 12.12-13

1884 Rhizammina indivisa ; Brady, p. 277, pl. 29, figs. 5-7.

1966 Rhizammina indivisa Brady ; Geroch, p. 434, fig. 6 (1-7) (cum syn.).

1981 Rhizammina indyvisa Brady ; Morgiel and Olszewska, p. 7, pl. 1, fig. 2.

1990 Rhizammina indivisa Brady ; Bellagamba and Coccioni, pl. 1, fig. 5.

Material. 56 specimens from 19 samples.

Description. Test tubular, commonly flattened and curved.

Distribution. Jurassic–Recent.

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.

FIGURE 13. Scanning electron micrographs of Psammosphaeridae (1-4) and Ammodiscidae (5-27) from the Caltavuturo Formation cropping out at Portella Colla. 1, Psammosphaera cf. laevigata White, 1928, PCs0. 2, Psammosphaera sp. 1, PC13. 3, Psammosphaera sp. 2, PC060615. 4, Psammosphaera sp. 3, PC060625. 5, Ammodiscus cretaceus (Reuss, 1845), PC22. 6, Hyperammina sp., PC060625. 7-8, Ammodiscus incertus (d’Orbigny, 1839), PC060603 (7) and PC13 (8). 9-11, Ammodiscus tenuisimus (Gümbel, 1862), PC22 (9), PC060615 (10) and PC060615 (11). 12-13, Ammodiscus latus Grzybowski, 1898, PC11 (12) and PC11 (13). 14, Ammodiscus peruvianus Berry, 1928, PC060617. 15-16, Ammodiscus cf. latus Grzybowski, 1898, PC11. 17, Ammodiscus sp. 1, PC11. 18, Ammodiscus sp. 2, PC15. 19, Ammodiscus sp. 3, PC060603. 20, Annectina biedai Gradstein and Kaminski, 1997, PC060618. 21, Annectina cf. grzybowski (Jurkiewicz, 1960), PC060617. 22, Glomospira sp. 2, PC15. 23, Glomospira sp. 1, PC11. 24, Glomospira sp. 3, PC13. 25-26. Glomospira serpens (Grzybowski, 1898), PC060617 (25) and PC060618 (26). 27, Glomospira irregularis (Grzybowski, 1898), PC060618. Scale bar equals 0.5 mm.