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Paucilobimorpha apiculata

Paucilobimorpha apiculata (Cookson and Eisenack, 1962a, p.272, pl.37, fig.4) Prössl, 1994, p.401.

Originally Horologinella, subsequently (and now) Paucilobimorpha?. Questionable assignment: Prössl (1994, p.401). Pestchevitskaya (2001, p.106; 2003, p.53) included this species in Horologinella but did not mention its transfer to Paucilobimorpha.

Holotype: Cookson and Eisenack, 1962a, pl.37, fig.4; Pestchevitskaya, 2001, pl.2, fig.13; Pestchevitskaya, 2003, pl.2, fig.6.
Locus typicus: Brickhouse Bore (1950) 10 miles SE. of Carnarvon, W.A. at 455 ft
Age: Campanian.

Original description: Cookson and Eisenack, 1962, p.272
Shell small, without fields, approximately isodiametric, sides deeply and broadly concave, epitheca and hypotheca of almost the same size and shape, epitheca with a small median beak-like projection by one side of which a small concave opening is situated. Wall relatively thick, surface smooth.

Dimensions:
Holotype 21 µm long, 20 µm broad.
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