pforams@mikrotax - Acarinina medizzai

Citation: Acarinina medizzai (Toumarkine & Bolli 1975)

Synonyms:

?Acarinina rugosoaculeata Subbotina, 1953:312-313, pl. XXV (partim): figs. 4a-c [upper Eocene, Don Basin, northern Caucasus]; figs. 5a-c [lower-middle Oligocene?, Kholmsk district, northern Caucasus] [Not figs. 6a-c. upper Eocene, Stalingrad region, Russia.]
Globigerina medizzai Toumarkine and Bolli, 1975:77, pl. 6: figs. 1-8, pl. 5: figs. 8, 10, 13-15, 17, 19-22 [upper Eocene, Scaglia Cinerea, Padua, Trevino, northern Italy]._Toumarkine and Luterbacher, 1985:150: figs. 41.1-6: 6, 8, 9 [upper Eocene, Scaglia Cinerea, Possagno section, northern Italy].
Acarinina medizzai (Toumarkine and Bolli). —Nocchi, and others 1991:266, pl. 4: fig. 23 [upper Eocene Zone P15, ODP Hole 703A, South Atlantic Ocean]. —Spezzaferri, 1998:177, pl. 1: figs. 12a-b [middle Eocene, ODP Hole 918D, East Greenland Margin].—Wade, 2004:29, pl. 2: figs. a, b, q [Zone P15, ODP Site 1052, western North Atlantic Ocean], figs. c, d, n-p [Zone P14, ODP Site 1052, western North Atlantic Ocean].

Taxonomic discussion:

This species is closely related to, and possibly synonymous with, Acarinina rugusoaculeata Subbotina. The latter was distinguished from A. medizzai by Toumarkine and Bolli (1975) on having a more umbilically positioned aperture and based on the presence of a final chamber that is larger and less detached from the previous chambers. Although Subbotina described her species as having a slit-like aperture that extends along the sutural margin, the apertural position in the holotype is not apparent from the illustration (e.g., Subbotina, 1953, pl. XXV: figs. 4a, b), and one of the other illustrated specimens that clearly does have an extraumbilical aperture and was designated as A. rugosoaculeata by Subbotina (1953, pl. XXV: figs. 6a, b) lacks a muricate wall texture and therefore should not be included in Acarinina. This ambiguity cannot be cleared up from study of Subbotina’s collection since the holotype and other specimens originally assigned to A. rugosoaculeata have been lost (E .M. Bugrova, pers. comm., 2003). Until specimens from the type level of the A. rugosoaculeata holotype can be studied and compared with A. medizzai we have chosen to suppress A. rugosoaculeata in favor of recognition of the better-documented species A. medizzai. [Berggren et al. 2006]

Distinguishing features:
Parent taxon (Acarinina): Moderate to low trochospire; chambers ovoid, usually 4-6 in final whorl.
Wall muricate with pustules on umbilical shoulders;
This taxon: Like A. collactea but smaller (<0.2 mm), lower trochospiral, test; and with smaller, often indistinct aperture

Description

Acarinina medizzai differs from A. collactea in its more rounded chambers, lobate outline and more open umbilicus. It “differs from A. echinata in the absence of a bulla and in the presence of an umbilicus” (Berggren and others, 2006:294). It is distinguished from Dipsidripella danvillensis (Howe and Wallace) by its muricate wall texture and lower arched aperture. [Wade & Kucenjak 2018]

Test relatively small, biconvex, quadrate to subcircular in outline, weakly to moderately lobate with a rounded periphery; chambers globular, 8-12 arranged in a low trochospire of 3-4 whorls, increasing moderately in size, 4-6 in the final whorl, rarely kummerform; umbilicus narrow in more compact specimens, shallow and broad in more evolute forms; sutures weakly depressed, radial on both sides; aperture a small and often indistinct low umbilical to slightly extraumbilical arch (modified from Berggren and others, 2006). [Wade & Kucenjak 2018]

Moderately to coarsely muricate, normal perforate, nonspinose. [Wade & Kucenjak 2018]

Maximum diameter of holotype 0.19 mm; test sizes range from 0.16 to 0.20 mm. [Wade & Kucenjak 2018]

Biogeography and Palaeobiology

This species has a cosmopolitan distribution but is often unreported, perhaps because of its small size and/or incorrect identification. [Berggren et al. 2006] In the Oligocene we have recorded this species from the Adriatic Sea and western Indian Ocean. [Wade & Kucenjak 2018]

No data available. [Wade & Kucenjak 2018]
Aze et al. 2011 ecogroup 1 - Open ocean mixed-layer tropical/subtropical, with symbionts; based on comparison with other species of the genus.

Probably descended from Acarinina collactea. [Wade & Kucenjak 2018]

Most likely ancestor: Acarinina collactea - at confidence level 3 (out of 5). Data source: Berggren et al. (2006) fig9.2; Wade & Kucenjak 2018.

Biostratigraphic distribution

Geological Range:
Notes: The range is poorly constrained. Acarinina medizzai evolved in middle Eocene Zone E10 (Berggren and others, 2006). Our youngest recorded occurrences are from Zone O4. [Wade & Kucenjak 2018]
Last occurrence (top): within O4 zone (28.09-29.18Ma, top in Rupelian stage). Data source: Wade & Kucenjak 2018
First occurrence (base): in upper part of E10 zone (80% up, 42.2Ma, in Lutetian stage). Data source: Berggren et al. 2006

Primary source for this page: Wade & Kucenjak 2018 - Olig Atlas chap.13 p.397; Berggren et al. 2006 - Eocene Atlas, chap. 9, p. 292

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test outline:	Lobate	chamber arrangement:	Trochospiral	edge view:	Equally biconvex	aperture:	Umbilical
sp chamber shape:	Inflated	coiling axis:	Low	periphery:	N/A	aperture border:	N/A
umb chbr shape:	Inflated	umbilicus:	Wide	periph margin shape:	Moderately rounded	accessory apertures:	None
spiral sutures:	Moderately depressed	umb depth:	Shallow	wall texture:	Finely muricate	shell porosity:	Finely Perforate: 1-2.5µm
umbilical or test sutures:	Moderately depressed	final-whorl chambers:	4-6	N.B. These characters are used for advanced search. N/A - not applicable

Acarinina medizzai

Taxonomy

Description

Biogeography and Palaeobiology

Biostratigraphic distribution

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