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Dapsilidinium paulinae
From Fensome et al., 2019:
Dapsilidinium? paulinae (Valensi, 1953, p.48, pl.12, fig.6) Lentin and Williams, 1981, p.70. Holotype: Valensi, 1953, pl.12, fig.6.
Originally Micrhystridium (Appendix A), subsequently Hystrichosphaeridium, thirdly Polysphaeridium?, fourthly
(and now) Dapsilidinium?. Questionable assignment: Lentin and Williams (1981, p.70). Age: Middle Jurassic.
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Original description: [Valensi, 1953] (translated from French):
Micrhystridium paulinae nov. sp.
Pl. XII, fig. 6.
HOLOTYPE: Bathonian, Mouchedune flint (B S 59).
The very damaged shell must have originally been spherical; small in size, it bears about 25 radiating processes, the length of which is between a quarter and a third of its diameter. Each of these processes has the shape of a hollow cylindrical tube, slightly narrowed in its middle and ending in a flared funnel with a circular or polygonal edge, the angles of which give rise to thin straight or curved spines; sometimes a thin longitudinal rib supports the process and ends at this angle. Each process has the appearance of a distal tube of Hystrichosphaeridium deflandrei.
The shell diameter is 12 μm, the length of the processes varies from 3 to 4 μ, and the total span is 20 μ.
A single individual of this species has been found in the Bathonian of Mouchedune.
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Transfer to Dapsilidinium by Lentin and Williams, 1981:
Dapsilidinium
?paulinae (Valensi, 1953) comb. nov.
1953 Hystrichosphaeridium paulinae Valensi, p.48, p1.12, fig.6.
Middle Jurassic, also formerly ?Polysphaeridium.
Dapsilidinium? paulinae (Valensi, 1953, p.48, pl.12, fig.6) Lentin and Williams, 1981, p.70. Holotype: Valensi, 1953, pl.12, fig.6.
Originally Micrhystridium (Appendix A), subsequently Hystrichosphaeridium, thirdly Polysphaeridium?, fourthly
(and now) Dapsilidinium?. Questionable assignment: Lentin and Williams (1981, p.70). Age: Middle Jurassic.
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Original description: [Valensi, 1953] (translated from French):
Micrhystridium paulinae nov. sp.
Pl. XII, fig. 6.
HOLOTYPE: Bathonian, Mouchedune flint (B S 59).
The very damaged shell must have originally been spherical; small in size, it bears about 25 radiating processes, the length of which is between a quarter and a third of its diameter. Each of these processes has the shape of a hollow cylindrical tube, slightly narrowed in its middle and ending in a flared funnel with a circular or polygonal edge, the angles of which give rise to thin straight or curved spines; sometimes a thin longitudinal rib supports the process and ends at this angle. Each process has the appearance of a distal tube of Hystrichosphaeridium deflandrei.
The shell diameter is 12 μm, the length of the processes varies from 3 to 4 μ, and the total span is 20 μ.
A single individual of this species has been found in the Bathonian of Mouchedune.
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Transfer to Dapsilidinium by Lentin and Williams, 1981:
Dapsilidinium
?paulinae (Valensi, 1953) comb. nov.
1953 Hystrichosphaeridium paulinae Valensi, p.48, p1.12, fig.6.
Middle Jurassic, also formerly ?Polysphaeridium.