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Cyclodictyon minus

Cyclodictyon minus Pocock, 1972
Acritarch.

According to Jansonius (pers. comm. in Lentin and Williams, 1989), this is possibly an acritarch.
Holotype: Pocock, 1972, pl.23, fig.10
Locus typicus: Tidewater North Wapella, Western Canada
Stratum typicum: Callovian
Remark: According to Jansonius 1986 in Lentin and Williams, 1989, this is possibly an acritarch

Original description: Pocock, 1972, p.101
Vesicle spherical; two-layered; inner layer less than 0.5Á thick; outer layer closely appressed to inner layer; reticulate; brocci 1.0(3.9)6.6 Ám wide; muri less than 0.5 Ám thick and 1.0-2.0 Ám high; vesicle penetrated by a circular archeopyle 18.0--20.0 Ám in diameter; colourless; equatorial diarneter 44.0-46.2 Ám.

Affinities:
Pocock, 1972, p.101: Differs from Cyclodictyon paradoxus Cooks. and Eisen. in its smaller size and in the lose contact between the two layers making up the vesicle.
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