Sphaeroentactinia Maletz & Bruton, 2007

Noble, Paula, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Danelian, Taniel, Dumitrica, Paulian, Maletz, Jörg, Suzuki, Noritoshi, Cuvelier, Jessie, Caridroit, Martial & O’Dogherty, Luis, 2017, Taxonomy of Paleozoic radiolarian genera, Geodiversitas 39 (3), pp. 419-502 : 432

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5252/g2017n3a4

publication LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:603CD230-5931-4506-A122-9CBC2F89189F

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0A488798-6A34-4565-FF7B-FA5E0AC3AB9A

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scientific name

Sphaeroentactinia Maletz & Bruton, 2007
status

 

Sphaeroentactinia Maletz & Bruton, 2007

Sphaeroentactinia Maletz & Bruton, 2007: 263 .

TYPE SPECIES. — Sphaeroentactinia hexaspinosa Maletz & Bruton, 2007 ( Maletz & Bruton 2007: 264, fig. 6A, 12A-I).

AGE AND LOCATION OF TYPE MATERIAL. — Didymograptellus bifidus and Isograptus lunatus graptolite zones, Floian (Lower Ordovician), Valhallfonna Formation, Spitsbergen.

TAXON CODE. — 046.

STATUS. — Valid.

DIAGNOSIS. — “Spherical radiolarians with a bar-centered spicule and a sphere formed from apophyses; spicule eccentrically positioned; spines may or may not be incorporated in the three-dimensional skeleton.” ( Maletz & Bruton 2007: 263).

REMARKS

This genus is tentatively placed within the Archaeospicularia , but may be an entactinarian.

Kingdom

Chromista

Phylum

Radiozoa

Class

Polycystina

Order

Entactinaria

Family

Sphaeroentactiniidae

Loc

Sphaeroentactinia Maletz & Bruton, 2007

Noble, Paula, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Danelian, Taniel, Dumitrica, Paulian, Maletz, Jörg, Suzuki, Noritoshi, Cuvelier, Jessie, Caridroit, Martial & O’Dogherty, Luis 2017
2017
Loc

Sphaeroentactinia

MALETZ J. & BRUTON D. L. 2007: 263
2007
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