Saitulpus, Dumitrica & Zügel, 2003

Dumitrica, Paulian & Zügel, Peter, 2003, Lower Tithonian mono- and dicyrtid Nassellaria (Radiolaria) from the Solnhofen area (southern Germany), Geodiversitas 25 (1), pp. 5-72 : 30-31

Genus Saitulpus n. gen.

TYPE SPECIES. — Saitulpus retrospina n. gen., n. sp.

ETYMOLOGY. — The name is formed from part of Saitoum and part of Poulpus , because this new genus combines characters of the two genera.

DIAGNOSIS. — Test monocyrtid with a globular cephalis, a well developed apical horn and feet, all bearing usually one or more verticils of spines. Initial cephalic skeleton with arches AV and Al forming longitudinal constrictions, and arches VL, Ll, and lD forming the base of cephalis. Without well marked ditreme.

REMARKS

Saitulpus n. gen. is herein erected to include species with a long apical horn, usually bearing a verticil of spines, arches Al and AV, and feet with one or more verticils of spines. From Poulpus it differs in having long apical horn and feet with verticils of spines. From Saitoum it differs in having rather visible arches and verticils of spines on feet and apical horn; all species of these two genera have simple apical horn and feet. The general shape of Saitulpus n. gen. resembles generally that of the Triassic species of Baratuna Kozur & Mostler, 1981 described by Dumitrica (1991), but Baratuna has no arch AV.