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Prolixosphaeridium toryna

Prolixosphaeridium? torynum (Cookson and Eisenack, 1960) Eisenack and Kjellstr÷m, 1971

Now Egmontodinium. Originally Hystrichosphaeridium, subsequently Prolixosphaeridium?, thirdly Tanyosphaeridium, fourthly (and now) Egmontodinium. At the time of the transfer, Eisenack and Kjellström, 1971 questionably included this species in Prolixosphaeridium.

Holotype: Cookson and Eisenack, 1960, pl. 38, fig. 15
Locus typicus: Broome Nr. 1 Bore, NW Western Australia
Stratum typcium: Tithonian-Neocomian

Original description: Cookson and Eisenack, 1960, p. 252: Hystrichosphaeridium torynum
Shell cylindrical with rounded ends and numerous short and apparently solid appendages of variable shape and size which are arranged in more or less well-defined whorls around the circumference. The appendages are either narrow and simple with capitate ends or flattened and terminally branched. The opening of the shell appears to have been terminal (Pl. 38, fig. 6).
Dimensions: holotype-shell 68 µm long, 33 µm broad; overall 81-56 µm. Appendages c. 10 µm long. Range of shell 64-78 µm x 32-38 µm.
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