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Trichodinium pellitum

Trichodinium pellitum Eisenack and Cookson, 1960

Holotype: Eisenack and Cookson, 1960, pl.2, fig.4; Jan du Chêne et al., 1986, pl.120, fig.4
Locus typicus: Santos"s Oodnadatta Bore, Western Australia
Stratum typicum: Aptian-Albian

Original description: Eisenack and Cookson, 1960, p.5
Shell oval, divided equally by an equatorial girdle, with a narrow, straight-sided apical horn which bears numerous short upwardly directed hairs. The shell membrane is densely covered with rather long, frequently bent hairs which are particularly long and divergent on both sides of the girdle and form a tuft at the antapex. The pylome is rather large and semicircular.
Dimensions: Type--Overall 110 Ám long, 100 Ám broad, shell 82 x 75 Ám, horn 1.5 Ám long.
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