Ammodiscus peruvianus Berry, 1928
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Ammodiscus peruvianus Berry, 1928 |
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Ammodiscus peruvianus Berry, 1928
Figure 13.14 View FIGURE 13
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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