Eggerella sp. 1

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 : 48

Eggerella sp. 1

Figure 20.15

Material. One single specimen from the sample PC3.

Description. Test subconical, initially planispirally coiled, chambers decreasing in number with the ontogeny. The last chamber of the collected specimen is broken; wall coarsely agglutinated.

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FIGURE 20. Scanning electron micrographs of Trochamminoidea (1-11, 13), Ataxophragmiidae (12, 17, 20-21), and Textulariina (14-16, 18-19, 22-23) from the Caltavuturo Formation cropping out at Portella Colla. 1, Trochammina sp. 1, PC060601. 2, Trochammina sp. 2, PC060601. 3, Trochammina sp. 3, PC060601. 4, Trochammina sp. 4, PC060604. 5, Trochammina sp. 5, PC060605. 6-10, Karrerulina conversa (Grzybowski, 1901), PC060615 (6), PC018 (7), PC11 (8), PC060615 (9) and PCs0 (10). 11, Karrerulina horrida (Mjatliuk, 1970), PC060617. 12, Remesella varians (Glaessner, 1937), PC060601. 13, Gaudryina sp., PC1. 14, Eggerella compressa (Andreae, 1884), PC13. 15, Eggerella sp. 1, PC3. 16, Eggerella sp. 2, PC3. 17, Arenobulimina sp., PC060602. 18, Siphotextularia sp. 1, PC060621. 19, Siphotextularia sp. 2, PC060621. 20, Tetraxiella subtilissima PCs0. 21, Gravellina sp., PC060618. 22, Valvulina flexilis Cushman and Renz, 1941, PC060604. 23, Valvulina sp., PC060621. Scale bars equal 0.5 mm.