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Valves lanceolate to linear-lanceolate in larger specimens, becoming elliptic-lanceolate to elliptic in smallest valves (
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). Valve margins parallel in longer valves to distinctly convex in the smaller range of the cell diminution series. Apices very weakly protracted (
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), subrostrate, to non-protracted, broadly rounded in smaller specimens. Valve dimensions (n=40): valve length 420 µm, valve width 3.54.0 µm. Sternum broad in the largest specimens, becoming moderately broad in smaller valves, lanceolate. Striae uniseriate, parallel to weakly radiate throughout the entire valve length,
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, black arrows). Apical pore field reduced to a handful of very small pores (
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, white arrows). Internally, sternum flat with raised virgae between striae (
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). Girdle structure not observed due to severe erosion of the frustules. Mantle plaques not observed (but unclear whether being a result of valve erosion).
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has a relative abundance of almost 10% in the
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sample. This sample is part of a clay layer from a sediment core taken at the edge of a ditch around the Roman
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at Aardenburg, which most likely received marine input via a tidal channel and freshwater input from an inland river, possibly the river Ee. The clay layer dates back to the Holocene, with the first indications pointing to a possible age between the 4
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century AD (André, unpubl. data). Other dominant species include
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(
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)
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,
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<emphasis box="[602,714,447,470]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="85">Staurosira</emphasis>
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cf.
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(
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, pl. XIV) Cleve &amp; J.D.Möller (1879: no. 242) sensu
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Lange-Bertalot
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(2017)
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,
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<emphasis box="[619,775,484,507]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="85">Eunotia minor</emphasis>
(
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) Grunow
</taxonomicName>
(in
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: pl. 33: figs 20, 21) and
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<emphasis box="[267,478,519,543]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="85">Cymatosira belgica</emphasis>
Grunow
</taxonomicName>
(in
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: pl. 45: figs 3841). This diatom flora points to a brackish, eutrophic environment (
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Lange-Bertalot
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2017
</bibRefCitation>
).
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<emphasis box="[700,891,555,579]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="85">Epithemia adnata</emphasis>
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is typically epiphytic and may point to the presence of submerged vegetation, but is also salinity-tolerant and often occurs in aquatic conditions with higher electrolyte contents (
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Lange-Bertalot
<emphasis box="[313,366,627,651]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="85">et al.</emphasis>
2017
</bibRefCitation>
).
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<emphasis box="[447,657,627,651]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="85">Cymatosira belgica</emphasis>
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is considered a marine tychoplanktonic species, typically observed in tidal inlets and large tidal channels (
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). The presence of
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<emphasis box="[901,1057,664,687]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="85">Eunotia minor</emphasis>
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is more difficult to explain but most likely the result of the influx of foreign material. Unfortunately, the taxonomic identity of
<emphasis box="[1090,1110,699,722]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="85">S.</emphasis>
cf.
<emphasis box="[1150,1217,700,723]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="85">venter</emphasis>
is too unclear to draw ecological conclusions from their presence in the sample.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[189,475,771,795]" pageId="2" pageNumber="85">Taxonomic comments:—</emphasis>
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Morales
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(2021)
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discuss a large number of
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<emphasis box="[1006,1193,771,795]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="85">Pseudostaurosira</emphasis>
species
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that are known worldwide when they described several new species from
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. Based on valve outline and valve dimensions, the new
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shows some similarity with the group of
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<emphasis box="[839,1139,843,867]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="85">Pseudostaurosira subsalina</emphasis>
(Hustedt) E.
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and
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<emphasis box="[240,361,879,903]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="85">P. polonica</emphasis>
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(M.Witak &amp; Lange-Bertalot in
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Witkowski
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1995: 736
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) E.Morales &amp; M.B.Edlund (2003: 235).
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<emphasis box="[136,408,915,939]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="85">Pseudostaurosira occulta</emphasis>
E.Morales, C.E.Wetzel &amp; Ector (2021: 40)
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shows comparable valve dimensions (length 735 µm, width 3.54.0 µm) and, at least in the longer range of the size diminution series, a comparable valve outline with almost parallel margins. However, differences can be noted in the shape of the apices (squarish in
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<emphasis box="[1098,1202,987,1011]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="85">P. occulta</emphasis>
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, more broadly rounded in
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<emphasis box="[164,392,1023,1047]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="85">P. ellipticolanceolata</emphasis>
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), stria density (
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10 µm in
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versus
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10 µm in
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P.
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) and stria structure. In
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, striae are usually composed of 34 areolae whereas striae with 3 areolae are rather rare in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="85">P. ellipticolanceolata</emphasis>
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. Due to the high degree of erosion, it was not possible to comment on the structure and shape of the apical pore field (covered by an external flap in
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) and the linking spines.
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<emphasis box="[1023,1320,1131,1155]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="85">Pseudostaurosira subsalina</emphasis>
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has broader valves (valve width 4.05.5 µm), a lower stria density (
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10 µm), a higher number of areolae per stria, a larger apical pore field (compared to the reduced pore field in
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), and a broader transition step between valve face and mantle, excluding possible conspecificity (
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Cejudo-Figueiras
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).
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M.L.García
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(in
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Garcia
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) differs in having acutely protracted valve apices and a much lower stria density (
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µm) (
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García
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). Other taxa in this group differ by the shape of the areolae (
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has only one, transapically elongated areola per striae), valve dimensions or valve outline.
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has longer valves (1939 µm) and typically capitate to rostrate apices throughout its entire cell diminution series (
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Grana
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, figs 215). Smaller taxa such as
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(in
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) and
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have a more elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate valve outline with strictly convex margins, with elongated, more linear-lanceolate valves so far not observed for these species, in contrast to
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that shows a more linear outline with parallel margins in the longer specimens.
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