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Dictyopyxis

From Fensome et al., 2019:

"Dictyopyxis", Cookson and Eisenack, 1960b, p.255.
Name illegitimate -- senior homonym: Dictyopyxis Ehrenberg, 1844b.
Substitute name: Dictyopyxidia.
Taxonomic senior synonym: Ellipsoidictyum, according to Sarjeant (1976a, p.23).
Type: Cookson and Eisenack, 1960b, pl.39, fig.12, as Dictyopyxis areolata.

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Original description: Cookson and Eisenack, 1960

Description:
Shell elongate with rounded ends and a reticulate wall; a division into epitheca and hypotheca and the presence of a `girdle` may be suggested by the more regular shape and arrangement of the meshes at or near the equator. The shell opens by the detachment of one of the ends.

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