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Deflandrea heterophlycta forma heterophlycta

Deflandrea heterophlycta forma heterophlycta

Autonym. Now redundant
Holotype: Deflandre and Cookson, 1955, pl.text-fig.5; Verdier, 1970, pl.1, figs.1-4
Locus typicus: Castle Cove, Victoria, Australia
Stratum typicum: Late Eocene

Original description: Deflandre and Cookson, 1955, p.249-250
Epitheca broadly conical with slightly convex flanks and a somewhat rounded, unthickened apex; hypotheca a little smaller than the epitheca and provided with 2 short, blunt, slightly divergent horns. Transverse girdle clear but shallow. Cyst sphaeroidal, ornamented with irregularly dispersed tubercles more numerous and coeser towards the poles. Cyst membrane finely punctate. Operning laterally extended situated towards the apical pole. Membrane of theca very finely and sparsely punctate.
Dimensions: Total length 115 Ám, breadth 80 Ám; cyst 72x72 Ám.

Affinities:
Deflandre and Cookson, 1955, p.250: The general form of this species recalls D. phosphoritica but it is clearly distinct in the tuberculate ornamentation of the cyst.
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