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Spiniferites neptunii

Spiniferites neptunii (Eisenack, 1958) Duxbury, 1983; Emendations: Duxbury, 1983, p.55, as Spiniferites neptuni; Sarjeant, 1985a, p.89–90,92, as Florentinia? neptuni

Now Achomosphaera. Originally Baltisphaeridium, subsequently (and now) Achomosphaera, thirdly Achomosphaera?, fourthly Spiniferites, fifthly Florentinia?.
Lentin and Williams, 1985, retained the species in Achomosphaera Evitt, 1963.

Holotype: Eisenack, 1958, pl.26, fig.7
Locus typicus: Borehole at Feld Heide, NW Germany
Stratum typicum: Early Cretaceous
Translation Eisenack, 1958: LPP

Original description: Eisenack 1958, p. 399: Baltisphaeridium neptuni
Diagnosis: Shell with thin wall, spherical to oval, covered with few, broadly based, cylindrical to weakly conical appendices; these are thin-walled, hollow and distally usually divided into 3 (more rarely 2 or 4) strongly diverging, mostly widely diverging, pointed processes. The length of the appendices is about half the central body diameter, or slightly shorter.
Dimensions: 12 specimens: shell diameter 40-60 µm, total diameter 75-95 µm; Holotype 48 µm and 88 µm respectively.

Emended diagnosis: Duxbury, 1983, p. 55
A chorate dinoflagellate cyst species possessing a faintly thick-walled, fibro-reticulate central body. Trifurcate gonal and bifurcate parasutural processes are present and 5these may be proximally connected by low crests. Rarely, the processes may have a secondary bifurcation . The archaeopyle is single paraplate precingular (3"").
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