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Gelatia inflata

Gelatia inflata Bujak, 1984, p.185-186

Holotype: Bujak, 1984, pl. 1, fig. 16
Paratypes: Bujak, 1984
Locus typicus: Aleutian Abyssal Plain, northern North Pacific
Stratum typicum: Late Eocene-Late Oligocene

Original description: Bujak, 1984, p. 185-186
Diagnosis: Endocyst spherical to ovoidal, small relative to pericyst, with smooth wall and without tabulation, in dorsal contact with pericyst. Pericyst inflated, compressed in apical-antapical direction, and with circular to oval outline. Pericyst with large dorsal-epicystal opening. Periphragm thin, membranous and smooth with low sutural crests that fully or partially delineate plates of the ventral hypocyst. Archeopyle precingular, formed by loss or displacement of plate 3"".
Dimensions: Endophragm length 23 to 26 µm, breadth 23 to 26 µm; periphragm length 53 to 70 µm, breadth 51 to 75 µm.
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