Lithomelissa celsagula Renaudie and Lazarus, 2015

Plate 15, Figs. 1A – 2B.

? Lophophenoma sp G, Petrushevskaya, 1971, pl. 56, fig. 17 (non fig. 16).

Lithomelissa celsagula n. sp., Renaudie and Lazarus, 2015, pl. 7, figs. 10–11, 16; pl. 8, fig. 12.

Lithomelissa celsagula Renaudie and Lazarus, Trubovitz et al., 2020, supplementary data 7.

Remarks. The specimens we observed in the EEP were confirmed to be conspecific with the Southern Ocean forms, by the authors of the species. There are no notable differences between the polar and tropical forms.

Range. Present from the Late Oligocene–Late Miocene in the SO. Observed in the Late Miocene in the EEP, lower limit not determined (Table 1).