Cyclammina cancellata 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 : 46

Cyclammina cancellata Brady, 1879

Figure 21.11-12

1879 Cyclammina cancellata ; Brady, p. 62, pl. 37, figs. 8-16.

2005 Cyclammina cancellata Brady ; Kaminski and Gradstein, p. 476, pl. 118a-b.

Material. Six specimens from three samples.

Description. Test free, planispiral coil with rounded periphery, umbilicus depressed. Eleven chambers in the last whorl, sutures depressed. Wall thick and finely agglutinated with sparse quartz grains.

Distribution. Late Eocene to Recent ( Kaminski and Gradstein, 2005).

Figures

FIGURE 21. Scanning electron micrographs of Cyclamminidae from the Caltavuturo Formation cropping out at Portella Colla. 1-3, Reticulophragmium acutidorsatum (Hantken, 1868), PC3. 4-7, Reticulophragmium amplectens (Grzybowski, 1898), PC3. 8-10, Reticulophragmium rotundidorsatum (Hantken, 1875), PC060624. 11-12, Cyclammina cancellata Brady, 1879, PC22. 13-14, Reticulophragmium projectum Schröder-Adams and McNeil, 1994, PC060624. 15, Cyclammina placenta (Reuss, 1851), PC11. Scale bar equals 0.5 mm.