Ammolagena clavata ( Jones and Parker, 1860 )

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 : 21-24

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Ammolagena clavata ( Jones and Parker, 1860 )
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Ammolagena clavata ( Jones and Parker, 1860) View in CoL

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1860 Trochammina irregularis (d'Orbigny) var. clavata ; Jones and Parker, p. 304.

1884 Webbina clavata Jones and Parker ; Brady, p. 349-350, pl. 41I, figs. 12-16 (cum syn.).

2004 Ammolagena clavata (Jones and Parker) ; Nigam, Mazumder, and Saraswat, p. 74, pl. 1, fig. a-d.

Material. 96 specimens from 20 samples.

Description. Test attached, large inflated and ovoid proloculus, followed by an undivided elongate irregular tube-like chamber, not increasing in size. Wall smooth, thin, finely agglutinated. Two apertures, one at the base of the proloculus as a simple opening surrounded by a lip, one at the end of the tube-like chamber.

Distribution. Cosmopolitan, known from the Cretaceous to Recent, recently signaled in the Indian Ocean ( Nigam et al., 2004).

Remarks. Attached form, sometimes encrusting Rhabdamminids, Ammodiscus or lituolids.

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