Daughter taxa (time control age-window is: 0-800Ma) | ||||
Clavigerinella akersi Final chambers with bulbous terminal swellings | ||||
Clavigerinella caucasica Final chambers taper into an acute or pointed tip | ||||
Clavigerinella colombiana Final chambers paddlewheel-like, i.e. flattened in side view, sub-triangular in edge view | ||||
Clavigerinella eocanica Final chambers smoothly rounded, clavate | ||||
Clavigerinella jarvisi Final chambers elongate and slender, without terminal swellings | ||||
Clavigerinella sp. Specimens which cannot be assigned to established species |
The taxonomy and stratigraphic range of Clavigerinella is difficult to assess because of their patchy geographical and stratigraphic distribution. Concentrations of Clavigerinella spp. occur in regions that were probably associated with high biological productivity due to upwelling during the Eocene. We acknowledge that there is a range of variability in chamber morphology within and between individuals, but in contrast to Blow (1979) who recognised only two species of Clavigerinella, we have identified five distinct morphotypes based on chamber shape and character of the chamber terminations that may be of geographic, stratigraphic or phylogenetic significance.
As observed by Blow (1979) the wall of Clavigerinella spp. is usually smooth but like its ancestor Parasubbotina eoclava it can also be weakly cancellate with a sacculifer-like underlying structure. Hemleben and Olsson (Chapter 4, this volume) have designated this wall texture as the Clavigerinella-type wall. The question of whether or not Clavigerinella was spinose in life is still unresolved. Cushman believed that Hastigerinella jarvisi ( =Clavigerinella jarvisi) had spines at the ends of the chambers, as in its modern homeomorph Hastigerinella digitata. Scanning electron micrographs of the holotype of this species (Pl. 8.2, Figs. 14-18) do not, however, support this. There is possible evidence of spine holes in material from the Helvetikum section in Austria (see Hemleben and Olsson, Chapter 4, this volume). There is as yet no good evidence, however, of spines in the descendent group Hantkenina, so presumably the spines were lost at some stage in the evolution.
There are at least 15 other digitate species from the Cretaceous, Paleogene and Neogene that are broadly comparable in overall morphology to Clavigerinella but are probably unrelated. Clavigerinella is restricted to the latest early to late Eocene and all earlier and subsequent digitate species are regarded as independently evolved homeomorphs. Species of Clavigerinella, particularly C. akersi, C. colombiana and C. jarvisi, are usually rare in tropical pelagic assemblages. However, they occasionally occur in relatively large numbers in association with species of Paragloborotalia, Parasubbotina and Pseudoglobigerinella, e.g., in Colombia, Peru, the Ivory Coast (ODP Site 960), Endeavour Seamount (Kane 9-C Piston core), the equatorial Pacific (ODP Site 1218) and the western equatorial Atlantic (ODP Site 1258). These localities, which are mainly western continental margins, equatorial zones and oceanic seamounts were probably regions of upwelling during the Eocene. This suggests Clavigerinella spp. were specialized to high-productivity environments (Coxall, 2000).
[Coxall & Pearson 2006]
Catalog entries: Clavigerinella
Distinguishing features:
Parent taxon (Hantkeninidae): Planispiral, wall smooth
This taxon: Final chambers clavate.
Morphology:
Wall type:
Phylogenetic relations
Most likely ancestor: Parasubbotina - at confidence level 4 (out of 5). Data source: Coxall & Pearson (2006), fig 8.1.
Likely descendants: Hantkenina;
plot with descendants
Geological Range:
Notes: Uppermost lower Eocene to the upper Eocene. [Coxall & Pearson 2006]
Last occurrence (top): at top of E16 zone (100% up, 33.9Ma, in Priabonian stage). Data source: Total of ranges of the species in this database
First occurrence (base): within E7a subzone (48.31-50.20Ma, base in Ypresian stage). Data source: Total of ranges of species in this database
Plot of occurrence data:
Primary source for this page: Coxall & Pearson 2006 - Eocene Atlas, chap. 8, p. 216
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