Ammodiscus peruvianus Berry, 1928

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 : 25-26

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Ammodiscus peruvianus Berry, 1928
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Ammodiscus peruvianus Berry, 1928

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1928 Ammodiscus peruvianus ; Berry, p. 342, pl. 27.

1954 Ammodiscus grzybowski ; Emiliani, p. 106.

2006 Ammodiscus peruvianus (Berry) ; Kaminski,

Silye, and Kender, p. 382, pl. 1, fig. 20.

Material. Five specimens in the sample PC060617.

Description. Test free, elliptical in outline, composed of a single chambers planispirally coiled. Wall thin, finely agglutinated. Aperture terminal.

Distribution. Cosmopolitan species common from the Cretaceous to the Eocene, and signaled from the Oligocene of the northern Appennines ( Emiliani, 1954), and from the Miocene of Greenland Sea ( Kaminski et al., 2006).

Remarks. Ammodiscus peruvianus differs from A. cretaceus for the elliptical outline.

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