Psammosiphonella linearis ( Brady, 1879 )

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

Psammosiphonella linearis ( Brady, 1879)

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1879 Rhabdammina linearis ; Brady, p. 37, pl. 3, figs. 10, 11.

1952 Oculosiphon linearis (Brady) ; Avnimelech, p. 65, fig. 9.

1987 Oculosiphon linearis (Brady) ; Loeblich and Tappan, p. 23, pl. 15, fig. 1.

2005 Rhabdammina linearis (Brady) ; Kaminski and Gradstein, p. 122, pl. 7, figs. 1-8.

2009 Rhabdammina linearis (Brady) ; Kender, Kaminski, and Jones, p. 493, pl. 1, fig. 2.

Material. 80 specimens from 19 samples.

Description. Test small, tubular, wall thin and finely agglutinated. Aperture a single terminal opening.

Distribution. From the Cretaceous to Recent ( 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.