New Middle Triassic Bell-Shaped Nassellarian Radiolaria From Alpine And Carpathian Areas
Author
Dumitrică, Paulian
text
Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae
2024
2024-02-11
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http://dx.doi.org/10.35463/j.apr.2024.01.05
journal article
10.35463/j.apr.2024.01.05
1842-371x
12582776
Humerocyrtis jekeli
n. sp.
Figs. 6d
,
8c
Diagnosis
.
Shell bell-shaped consisting of a small, pear-shaped cephalic cavity and practically poreles cephalis and a thorax with concave distal portion. Apical horn, long, three-bladed and pointed. Ventral spine small, three-bladed and pointed. Proximal part of thorax very short, wide-conical with rare small circular or oval pores. Shoulder relatively well remarked and rounded. Distal part of thorax subcylindrical with concave outline, its distal end simple or bearing a short and narrower thin-walled additional shell. Pores of thorax circular or oval, of variable sizes and arranged irregularly or in oblique rows.
Studied material
.
Two specimens
in sample Rc4.
Holotype
.
Fig. 8c
, sample Rc2, coll.
MGL
.110286.
Paratype
.
Fig. 6d
, sample Rc4, coll.
MGL
.110287.
Dimensions
. Maximum length of shell with apical horn 126-144 µm, without horn 87-96 µm, of cephalis 30-35 µm, of thorax 52-61 µm, diameter of cephalis 37-38 µm, of shoulder 57-58 µm, of distal end 95-106 µm.
Etymology
. The species is dedicated to the geologist E. Jekelius who, at the beginning of the XXth century, studied the geology and Triassic fauna from the
Braşov
and Cristian areas.
Remarks
. To this species I assigned provisionally two rather different specimens. The
paratype
differs from the
holotype
by having a longer and slightly pear-shaped cephalis, very irregularly arranged pores on thorax and distal border of thorax practically without the thin additional shell. There is just a beginning of such a shell in the left side of the distal border.
Stratigraphic range
. Buchenstein Formation, Recoaro, lower Ladinian.