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Chlamydophorella nyei
Chlamydophorella nyei, Cookson and Eisenack, 1958
Tax. sr. synonym of Chlamydophorella apiculata Cookson and Eisenack, 1970, and of Chlamydophorella lagena Cookson and Eisenack, 1970, according to Morgan, 1980.
Holotype: Cookson and Eisenack, 1958, pl.11, fig.1
Locus typicus: Cape York Peninsula, N Queensland, Australia
Stratum typicum: Aptian-Turonian
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Original description: [Cookson and Eisenack 1958, p. 56-57]:
Description:
The shell is approximately spherical with a short peltate apical projection and is covered with numerous short, slender bifurcate processes which support a delicate membrane. The processes narrow from base to apex and are mostly inserted at right angles to the shell, but in the apical region lie parallel to the polar axis. The length of the spines differs slightly. They are longest on either side of the equatorial region giving a slightly angular outline to the whole body and a median "girdle"-like appearance in optical section.
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Supplemental description:
Vozzhennikova, 1967: (Translation: Lees in Sarjeant, 1971, p. 176):
Description:
Theca oval, its surface covered with densely packed short outgrowth which bifurcate at the distal end and make contact with each other by the means of the bifurcate tips, thus forming, as it were, a thin membrane on the surface of the spines. The division of the theca into fields (plates) is discernible.
Tax. sr. synonym of Chlamydophorella apiculata Cookson and Eisenack, 1970, and of Chlamydophorella lagena Cookson and Eisenack, 1970, according to Morgan, 1980.
Holotype: Cookson and Eisenack, 1958, pl.11, fig.1
Locus typicus: Cape York Peninsula, N Queensland, Australia
Stratum typicum: Aptian-Turonian
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Original description: [Cookson and Eisenack 1958, p. 56-57]:
Description:
The shell is approximately spherical with a short peltate apical projection and is covered with numerous short, slender bifurcate processes which support a delicate membrane. The processes narrow from base to apex and are mostly inserted at right angles to the shell, but in the apical region lie parallel to the polar axis. The length of the spines differs slightly. They are longest on either side of the equatorial region giving a slightly angular outline to the whole body and a median "girdle"-like appearance in optical section.
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Supplemental description:
Vozzhennikova, 1967: (Translation: Lees in Sarjeant, 1971, p. 176):
Description:
Theca oval, its surface covered with densely packed short outgrowth which bifurcate at the distal end and make contact with each other by the means of the bifurcate tips, thus forming, as it were, a thin membrane on the surface of the spines. The division of the theca into fields (plates) is discernible.