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Hystrichosphaeridium cambayense
Hystrichosphaeridium cambayense Varma and Dangwal, 1964
Stover and Evitt, 1978, considered this to be a problematical species of Hystrichosphaeridium.
Holotype: Varma and Dangwal, 1964, pl.1, fig.1
Locus typicus: W India, Cambay Basin, C.D.W. no. 1
Stratum typicum: Eocene-Oligocene
Original diagnosis: Varma and Dangwal, 1964, p.63
Body spherical to somewhat angularlv rounded, the angularity most probably attained during fossilisation. Body wall well defined, up to 3Á thick. Body densely granulate, processes rising from the body surface in groups or coalesced bundles situated at fair distances from each other. These groups of processes show a granulation similar to that seen on the body. Observed thickness of the bundles varies from 9 to 30 Ám. Individual processes united almost throughout their length, sometimes even in an anastomosing manner. Processes simple or sometimes with slightly bifurcated tips.
Measurements: Diameter of body ca. 44-70 Ám , length of processes ca. 15-30 Ám.
Affinities:
Varma and Dangwal, 1964, p.63: At first sight the most closely comparable species appears to be H. inodes Klumpp, but the details of H. cambayense are so widely different that they warrant its designation as a new species.
Stover and Evitt, 1978, considered this to be a problematical species of Hystrichosphaeridium.
Holotype: Varma and Dangwal, 1964, pl.1, fig.1
Locus typicus: W India, Cambay Basin, C.D.W. no. 1
Stratum typicum: Eocene-Oligocene
Original diagnosis: Varma and Dangwal, 1964, p.63
Body spherical to somewhat angularlv rounded, the angularity most probably attained during fossilisation. Body wall well defined, up to 3Á thick. Body densely granulate, processes rising from the body surface in groups or coalesced bundles situated at fair distances from each other. These groups of processes show a granulation similar to that seen on the body. Observed thickness of the bundles varies from 9 to 30 Ám. Individual processes united almost throughout their length, sometimes even in an anastomosing manner. Processes simple or sometimes with slightly bifurcated tips.
Measurements: Diameter of body ca. 44-70 Ám , length of processes ca. 15-30 Ám.
Affinities:
Varma and Dangwal, 1964, p.63: At first sight the most closely comparable species appears to be H. inodes Klumpp, but the details of H. cambayense are so widely different that they warrant its designation as a new species.