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Aiora
From Fensome et al., 2019:
Cookson and Eisenack, 1960a, p.9.
Junior homonym: Aiora Davey, 1978. Stover and Evitt (1978, p.225) indicated that they were emending the diagnosis of this genus; however, no emendation was provided.
Type: Deflandre and Cookson, 1955, pl.3, fig.2, as Cannosphaeropsis fenestrata.
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Original description: [Cookson and Eisenack, 1960]:
Description: Shell spherical, near the equator bearing a whorl of from five to approximately ten solid, radiating, branched processes which unite distally to form a continuous narrow and flat perforate expansion of uneven width. The resultant "float"is in shape of a flat cone.
Affinities:
The genus Aiora is distinct from the genus Cannosphaeropsis O. Wetzel, which it superficially resembles, in that the shell is not enclosed in an external network.
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Modified description:
Stover and Evitt, 1978, p. 225:
Description: Shell apparently ellipsoidal; membrane thin, smooth, with a number of solid processes that are distally united with one another; localized portions of the transverse trabeculae are thin; strongly flattened and perforated by rounded openings of variable size.
Cookson and Eisenack, 1960a, p.9.
Junior homonym: Aiora Davey, 1978. Stover and Evitt (1978, p.225) indicated that they were emending the diagnosis of this genus; however, no emendation was provided.
Type: Deflandre and Cookson, 1955, pl.3, fig.2, as Cannosphaeropsis fenestrata.
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Original description: [Cookson and Eisenack, 1960]:
Description: Shell spherical, near the equator bearing a whorl of from five to approximately ten solid, radiating, branched processes which unite distally to form a continuous narrow and flat perforate expansion of uneven width. The resultant "float"is in shape of a flat cone.
Affinities:
The genus Aiora is distinct from the genus Cannosphaeropsis O. Wetzel, which it superficially resembles, in that the shell is not enclosed in an external network.
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Modified description:
Stover and Evitt, 1978, p. 225:
Description: Shell apparently ellipsoidal; membrane thin, smooth, with a number of solid processes that are distally united with one another; localized portions of the transverse trabeculae are thin; strongly flattened and perforated by rounded openings of variable size.