Praesphaerammina subgaleata ( Vašiček, 1947 )

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 : 41

Praesphaerammina subgaleata ( Vašiček, 1947)

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1947 Cystammina subgaleata ; Vašiček, p. 247, pl. 1, fig. 15, text fig. 3.

1981 Sphaerammina subgaleata Vašiček ; Morgiel and Olszewska, p. 12, pl. 9, fig. 2.

2004 Praesphaerammina subgaleata (Vašiček) ; Green, Kaminski, and Sikora, p. 125, pl. 3, fig. 1.

2005 Praesphaerammina subgaleata (Vašiček) ; Kaminski and Gradstein, p. 369, pl. 85, figs. 1-6.

Material. Nine specimens from eight samples.

Description. Test free, flattened and subelliptic, the last chamber covers over 60% the previous chambers.

Distribution. Middle Eocene–late Miocene ( Kaminski and Gradstein, 2005).

Figures

FIGURE 19. Scanning electron micrographs of Haplophragmoididae (1-6), Sphaeramminidae (7-10), Lituolidae (11- 14), and Recurvoidea (15-25) from the Caltavuturo Formation cropping out at Portella Colla. 1-2, Haplophragmoides cf. latissimusuturalis Smith, 1971, PC3. 3, Haplophragmoides sp. 3, PC060615. 4, Haplophragmoides sp. 4, PC060601. 5, Haplophragmoides sp. 5, PC060615. 6, Haplophragmoides sp. 6, PC060621. 7-8, Praesphaerammina subgaleata (Vašiček, 1947), PC11 (7) and PC1 (8). 9-10, Ammosphaeroidina pseudopauciloculata (Mjatliuk, 1966), PC060604 (9) and PC060604 (10). 11, Ammobaculites agglutinans (d’Orbigny, 1846), PC060615. 12, Ammobaculites sp. 1, PC060607. 13, Ammobaculites sp. 3, PC15. 14, Ammobaculites sp. 2, PC060625. 15-16, Budashevaella multicamerata (Voloshinova and Budasheva, 1961), PC060604. 17, Cribrostomoides subglobosus (Cushman, 1910), PC060604. 18, Recurvoidella lamella (Grzybowski, 1898), PC060601. 19, Recurvoides anormis Mjatliuk, 1970, PC5. 20, Recurvoides sp. 1, PC060601. 21, Recurvoides sp. 2, PC060623. 22, Recurvoides nucleolus (Grzybowski, 1898), MM3. 23, Recurvoides walteri (Grzybowski, 1898), PC5. 24, Trochammina bifaciata Friedberg, 1901, PC060604. 25, Thalmannammina subturbinata (Grzybowski, 1898), MM14. Scale bar equals 0.5 mm.