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Rhombodinium draco ssp. draco

Rhombodinium draco ssp. draco

Autonym.
Holotype: Gocht, 1955, text-fig.1
Locus typicus: Northern Germany
Stratum typicum: Middle Oligocene
Translation Gocht, 1955: LPP

Original diagnosis: Gocht 1955, p. 85-87
Central body flattened, in outline approximately rhomboidal to kite-shaped, the margins are smooth and unindented. The apical horn pointed, or blunt; lateral horns strongly extended, at the distal end rounded or blunt, rectangular to the longitudinal axis or a little inclined to the apex. Antapical horns either fine pointed, or (mostly asymmetrical) fused to one appendage.
Dimensions: Range: Length: 124-150 µm; Width: 126-147 µm.
Additions (annotated): The membrane of shell and capsule is pale, soft, transparent and smooth. The endophragm resembles in outline the periphragm, although it is rounded below the horns and does not or hardly rise in the horns. In all complete preserved specimens (one exception) a rounded-rectangular to trapezoidal archeopyle, which narrows towards the apex, is present in the epitheca, just below the apical horn.
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