Punctomosea

Maillet, Sebastien, Milhau, Bruno, Vreulx, Michel & Posada, Luis-Carlos Sánchez De, 2016, Givetian ostracods of the Candás Formation (Asturias, North-western Spain): taxonomy, stratigraphy, palaeoecology, relationship to global events and palaeogeographical implications, Zootaxa 4068 (1), pp. 1-78 : 36

Punctomosea ? sp. indet.

(Pl. II: Fig. 23)

2013 Punctomosea ? sp. indet.; Maillet: 109, pl. XIV, fig. 12.

Material. 1 specimen (1 C).

Description. Medium-sized elongated carapace, sub-rhomboidal and clearly slender towards anterior in lateral view, asymmetrically biconvex in dorsal view. Very slight overlap of the larger LV over the RV along the whole outline, more pronounced in the postero-dorsal part. Hmax at 1/3 posterior; Lmax median; Wmax posterior. Dorsal margin posteriorly convex, straight and oblique from Hmax point towards anterior. Regularly convex ventral margin. Ventral and dorsal margins clearly converging anteriorly from the Hmax point. Regularly convex anterior margin, very arched. Regularly convex posterior margin. Carapace flattened along the posterior margin. Posterior part of the carapace higher than the anterior one. Surface smooth. Shoulder in the postero-ventral part, nearly reaching the ventral margin.

Discussion. This specimen cannot be identified with certainty and not to a specific level. By the presence of a marked posterior shoulder, it may belong either to the genus Punctomosea or to the genus Healdia .

Occurrences. Middle Givetian (Candás Fm, mb C), Asturias (Peran-Perlora section).