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Cyclodictyon paradoxum
Cyclodiction paradoxum Cookson and Eisenack, 1958
Acritarch
Holotype: Cookson and Eisenack, 1958, pl.12, fig.1
Locus typicus: Carnavron Basin, W Australia
Stratum typicum: Cenomanian-Early Turonian
Original descripition: Cookson and Eisenack, 1958, p. 59
Shell small, thin-walled, compressed to an oval outline in all specimens. The net which is fine-meshed, folded and concavo-convex, is attached near the ends of the shell by broad, smooth, entire or occasionally divided, curved strands which carry it well above the shell, so that its inner concave edges are seperated from the shell by considerable space. The space seperating the two sides of the net from one another has been small in all examples, but it seems highly probable that in life it was larger.
Dimensions:
Type overall 71x71 Ám; shell 30x19 Ám.
Paratype overall 76x71 Ám; shell 33x24 Ám.
Acritarch
Holotype: Cookson and Eisenack, 1958, pl.12, fig.1
Locus typicus: Carnavron Basin, W Australia
Stratum typicum: Cenomanian-Early Turonian
Original descripition: Cookson and Eisenack, 1958, p. 59
Shell small, thin-walled, compressed to an oval outline in all specimens. The net which is fine-meshed, folded and concavo-convex, is attached near the ends of the shell by broad, smooth, entire or occasionally divided, curved strands which carry it well above the shell, so that its inner concave edges are seperated from the shell by considerable space. The space seperating the two sides of the net from one another has been small in all examples, but it seems highly probable that in life it was larger.
Dimensions:
Type overall 71x71 Ám; shell 30x19 Ám.
Paratype overall 76x71 Ám; shell 33x24 Ám.