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Deflandrea granulosa

Deflandrea granulosa Cookson and Eisenack, 1965

Tax. jr. synonym of Deflandrea phosphoritica Eisenack, 1938, according to Stover, 1974.
Holotype: Cookson and Eisenack, 1965, pl.11, fig.8
Locus typicus: Browns Creek Clays, SW Victoria, Australia
Stratum typicum: Late Eocene

Original description: Cookson and Eisenack, 1965, p.122
Shell longer than broad, thin-walled, untabulated with slanting to convex sides, a short, blunt apical horn of rather variable shape and size and two blunt antapical horns. Girdle indistinet, indieated by two median lateral indentations. Shell wall densely and finely to eoarsely granular. Capsule large, eireular in outline, nearly filling the main portion of the shell, rather thick-walled, densely and finely to coarsely granular, oceasionally with small blunt tubereles. Areheopyle large, widely hexagonal.
Dimensions: Holotype c. 118 µm long, 68 µm wide, capsule c. 62x71 µm. Range c. 94-128 µm long, 68-102 µm wide, capsule 62-72x68-82 µm.
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