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Wetzeliella clathrata

Wetzeliella clathrata Eisenack, 1938

NOW Talladinium? Originally Wetzeliella, subsequently Kisselevia?, thirdly Charlesdowniea, fourthly (and now) Talladinium? Pastiels, 1948, considered this species to be a synonyrn of Wetzeliella (as Hystrichosphaeridium) articulata Eisenack, 1938. This has not been generally accepted by subsequent authors.
Holotype: Eisenack, 1938, text-fig.5; Eisenack, 1954, pl.7, fig.12
Locus typicus: Palmnicken, Samland, Russia
Stratum typicum: Late Eocene-Early Oligocene
Translations Eisenack, 1938, 1954: LPP
Translation Gocht, 1969: Geological Survey of Canada

Original description: Eisenack, 1938, p. 187
Wetzeliella clathrata differs from Wetzeliella articulata in its stronger diamond shape and the balustrade-like fusion of the marginal spines.

Gocht, 1969, p.17:
There are, unfortunately, only four specimens, of which one is well preserved. Rows of processes joined distally by connecting strands, resembling balustrades, demarcate indistinct fields, leaving the transverse furrow free. The pylome lid seems to bear an especially fine network of distal connecting filaments.
Occurrence: Early Eocene.
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