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Bohaidina alvaeolae

Bohaidina alvaeolae, Xu Jinli and Mao Shaozhi, 1989

Holotype: Xu Jinli and Mao Shaozhi, 1989, pl.1, fig.1
Locus typicus: not mentioned in abstract
Location and horizon: (translation GSC): Upper part of the Third Member of the Shahejie Formation, Zhanhua and Kenli
counties, Shandong Province.
Stratum typicum: Early Tertiary

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Original description: [Xu Jinli and Mao Shaozhi, 1989, p. 222]: (from english abstract):

Diagnosis:
Autocyst polygonal, subrhombic in outline. Four girdle projections with wide base and rounded top developed; two of them ventrally located and better developed, with deep depression between them. Autophragm 1 µm thick, covered with nontabular foveolate ornamentation.
Archeopyle combination, type of [tAa] + 3Ia or [tAa] + 3I. Operculum compound.

(Provisional translation GSC: courtesy R. Fensome):

Dimensions:
54 - 70 (holotype 65) µm in length, 49 - 58.5 (holotype 56) µm in width.

Affinities:
The new species is distinguished by having two girdle projections on dorsal side and foveolate ornamentation to differ it from other species of this genus.
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