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Hystrichosphaeridium perplexum
Hystrichosphaeridium perplexum 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.5
Locus typicus: Western India, Cambay Basin, C.D.W. no. 9
Stratum typicum: Eocene-Oligocene
Original diagnosis: Varma and Dangwal, 1964, p.64
Body spherical to oblong, dark-brown in color. Body wall distinctly seen, about 2 µm thick, psilate to granulate. Processes of light color, studded denselv all over the body, long, hollow, supple, flexuous, and characteristically tangled with one another into a confused interwoven mass. Tips mostly broken.
Measurements: Diameter of body ca. 42-54 µm; length of processes ca. 19.5 µm and more.
Affinities:
Varma and Dangwal, 1964, p.64: At first sight it seems similar to H. polytrichum Valensi, but its processes are long, supple, filiform and interwoven, whereas in H. polytrichum the processes are straight and bristle-like, and not in the form of a confused interwoven mass. H. polytrichum also differs in other minor details.
Stover and Evitt, 1978, considered this to be a problematical species of Hystrichosphaeridium.
Holotype: Varma and Dangwal, 1964, pl.1, fig.5
Locus typicus: Western India, Cambay Basin, C.D.W. no. 9
Stratum typicum: Eocene-Oligocene
Original diagnosis: Varma and Dangwal, 1964, p.64
Body spherical to oblong, dark-brown in color. Body wall distinctly seen, about 2 µm thick, psilate to granulate. Processes of light color, studded denselv all over the body, long, hollow, supple, flexuous, and characteristically tangled with one another into a confused interwoven mass. Tips mostly broken.
Measurements: Diameter of body ca. 42-54 µm; length of processes ca. 19.5 µm and more.
Affinities:
Varma and Dangwal, 1964, p.64: At first sight it seems similar to H. polytrichum Valensi, but its processes are long, supple, filiform and interwoven, whereas in H. polytrichum the processes are straight and bristle-like, and not in the form of a confused interwoven mass. H. polytrichum also differs in other minor details.