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Aiora fenestrata
Aiora fenestrata, (Deflandre and Cookson, 1955), Cookson and Eisenack, 1960
Davey, 1978, retained this species in Cannosphaeropsis 0. Wetzel, 1933. Wilson and Clowes, 1980, and Lentin and Williams, 1981, retained it in Aiora.
Holotype: Deflandre and Cookson, 1955, pl.3, fig.2
Locus typicus: Gingin, W Australia
Stratum typicum: Senonian
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Original description as Cannosphaeropsis fenestrata: [Deflandre and Cookson, 1955, p. 283]:
Description:
Shell apparently ellipsoidal; membrane thin, smooth, with a number of solid processes that are distally united with another; localized portions of the transverse trabeculae are thin; strongly flattened and perforated by rounded openings of variable size.
Davey, 1978, retained this species in Cannosphaeropsis 0. Wetzel, 1933. Wilson and Clowes, 1980, and Lentin and Williams, 1981, retained it in Aiora.
Holotype: Deflandre and Cookson, 1955, pl.3, fig.2
Locus typicus: Gingin, W Australia
Stratum typicum: Senonian
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Original description as Cannosphaeropsis fenestrata: [Deflandre and Cookson, 1955, p. 283]:
Description:
Shell apparently ellipsoidal; membrane thin, smooth, with a number of solid processes that are distally united with another; localized portions of the transverse trabeculae are thin; strongly flattened and perforated by rounded openings of variable size.