Suttonium anomalum (Sutton), 1896

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

Suttonium anomalum (Sutton), 1896

Figure 6c

1896 Rhopalastrum (?) anomalum Sutton , p. 59, fig. 1.

1983a Suttonium anomalum (Sutton) . – Dumitrică, p. 42, pl. 2, figs. 1-4; pl. 3, figs. 3, 4, 6-8, 11.

2015 Suttonium anomalum (Sutton) . – Kamikuri, p. 148, pl. 18, fig. 9.

Remarks. It seems that Schaaf (1976) was not convinced that Sutton’s species is congeneric with Suttonium praedicator Schaaf because in his very short note he ( Schaaf, 1976, p. 792) wrote that Sutton’s species is the only species “presenting some similitudes” with his new species and genus. That is why he did not include Sutton’s species in the genus Suttonium .

Range and occurrence. Upper Eocene to Pleistocene, subtropical to equatorial Pacific, and Carribean area ( Barbados).

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.