Pseudoemiliania

Citation: 
Genus Pseudoemiliania Gartner, 1969

Description: Coccoliths circular to broadly elliptical with variable number of slits in distal shield.

Remarks: Intergrades with Reticulofenestra minutula in the Late Pliocene and with R. asanoi in the Late Pleistocene.

Range: NN15 to 19

Included species: 

 Plac201 (471-0) 11NN14-15.JPG3-26lacunosa.JPG Pseudoemiliania lacunosa - circular to sub-circular, >12 slits in distal shield
Povata192-08.JPG3-28ovata.JPG  Pseudoemiliania ovata - elliptical,<12 slits in shield

 

 

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