Suttonium praedicator Schaaf, 1976

Dumitrica, Paulian, 2019, Cenozoic Spumellarian Radiolaria With Eccentric Microsphere, Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 15 (1), pp. 39-60 : 46

Suttonium praedicator Schaaf, 1976

Figure 6d

1976 Suttonium praedicator Schaaf , p. 789-792, pl. 1, figs. 1-5.

1983 Suttonium praedicator Schaaf. – Dumitrică, p. 42, pl. 1, figs. 1-6; pl. 2, figs. 5-8; pl. 3, figs. 9, 10, 12-15.

Remarks. S. praedicator is the last evolutionary species of the genus and it is interesting by having the two lateral arms perfectly opposed, and the microsphere and the apical portion of deuteroconcha out of the cortical shell.

Range and occurrence. Upper Pleistocene? to Holocene, surface sediments, southern tropical Pacific.

Figures

Fig. 6 a-b. Parasuttonium taiwanense nov. gen., nov. sp., Quaternary; a – holotype, b – paratype, incomplete specimen. c – Suttonium anomalum (Sutton). d – Suttonium praedicator Schaaf (from Dumitrică, 1983, pl. 1, fig. 1; pl. 3, fig. 14). Scale bars for 6a-c = 50 μm.