Pseudonodosinella nodulosa 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 : 37

Pseudonodosinella nodulosa Brady, 1879

Figure 16.12-13

1879 Reophax nodulosa ; Brady, p. 52, pl. 4, figs. 7, 8.

1898 Reophax subnodulosa Grzybowski ; p. 279, pl. 10, figs. 17, 18.

1987 Pseudonodosinella nodulosa Brady ; Loeblich and Tappan, p. 61, pl. 46, figs. 5, 6.

2005 Pseudonodosinella nodulosa (Brady) ; Kaminski and Gradstein, p. 259, pl. 49, figs. 1- 9.

2009 Pseudonodosinella nodulosa (Brady) ; Kender, Kaminski, and Jones, p. 498, pl. 3, fig. 12.

Material. 23 specimens from 12 samples.

Description. Test free, elongated, uniseriate, straight or slightly curved; ovoid or piriform embracing chambers. Wall finely agglutinated with medium sized quartz grains. Sutures moderately incise, aperture terminal.

Distribution. Cosmopolitan taxon known from the Eocene to Recent ( Kaminski and Gradstein, 2005).

Figures

FIGURE 16. Scanning electron micrographs of Reophacidae (1-3), Hormosinidae (4-13), and Lituotubidae (14-20) from the Caltavuturo Formation cropping out at Portella Colla. 1, Reophax duplex Grzybowski, 1896, PC060624. 2, Reophax pilulifer Brady, 1884, PC13. 3, Reophax sp. 1, PC060615. 4-5, Hormosina velascoensis (Cushman, 1926), PC060617 (4) and PC11 (5). 6, Hormosina trinitatensis Cushman and Renz, 1946, PC11. 7, Hormosina sp. 1, PC060624. 8, Hormosina sp. 2, PC060615. 9-11, Pseudonodosinella elongata Grzybowski, 1898, PC11 (9), PC060601 (10) and PCs0 (11). 12-13, Pseudonodosinella nodulosa Brady, 1879, PC11 (12) and PC060617 (13). 14, Paratrochamminoides acervulatus (Grzybowski, 1896), PC13. 15, Paratrochamminoides deflexiformis (Noth, 1912), PC060615. 16, Lituotuba lituiformis (Brady, 1879), PC060615. 17, Paratrochamminoides sp. 1, PC060601. 18, Paratrochamminoides draco (Grzybowski, 1901), PC11. 19, Paratrochamminoides mitratus (Grzybowski, 1901), PCs0. 20, Conglophragmium deforme (Grzybowski, 1898), PC060623. Scale bar equals 0.5 mm.