Caudammina gutta Benedetti and Pignatti, 2009

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 : 24

Caudammina gutta Benedetti and Pignatti, 2009

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2009 Caudammina gutta ; Benedetti and Pignatti, p. 344, pl. 1, figs. 1-18.

Material. 126 specimens from nine samples.

Description. Test free, large, flask-like, originally plurilocular comprised of rounded or pyriform pseudochambers without internal partitions. Wall thick, imperforate, and finely agglutinated with a smooth surface. Aperture at the open end of the short neck.

Distribution. Late Eocene?–Oligocene.

Remarks. Mikhalevich (2013) erroneously includes the subfamily Caudammininae within the family Saccamminidae , since Caudammina is clearly not monothalamous.

Figures

FIGURE 14. Scanning electron micrographs of Hormosinelloidea from the Caltavuturo Formation cropping out at Portella Colla. 1, Ammolagena clavata (Jones and Parker, 1860) on a specimen of Psammosiphonella cylindrica (Glaessner, 1937), PCs0. 2, Ammolagena clavata (Jones and Parker, 1860), PC060607. 3-7, Caudammina gutta Benedetti and Pignatti, 2009, PC18. 8, Subreophax cf. guttifer (Brady, 1881), PC15. 9, Subreophax cf. pseudoscalaris (Samuel, 1977), PCs0. 10, Subreophax scalaris (Grzybowski, 1896), PC11. 11-12, Subreophax splendidus (Grzybowski, 1898), PC060624 (11) and PC11 (12). 13, Arthrodendron subnodosiformis (Grzybowski, 1898), PC060615. 14, Arthrodendron grandis (Grzybowski, 1898), PC050515. 15-19, Kalamopsis grzybowskii (Dylążanka, 1923), PC18 (15), PC11 (16), PC18 (17), PC060621 (18) and PC060621 (19). Scale bar equals 0.5 mm.