Nannotax

Pseudoemiliania

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Description

  • 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

     

     

Images

  • Pe ovata CP
  • Pe lacunosa CP
  • 3-27lacunosa.JPG
  • 3-26lacunosa.JPG
  • 3-28ovata.JPG
  • Plac201 (471-0) 11NN14-15.JPG
Scratchpads developed and conceived by: Vince Smith, Simon Rycroft & Dave Roberts