Set number: 1339

  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01719 1
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01717 2
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01733 3
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01721 4
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01720 5
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01718 6
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01731 7
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01722 8
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01734 9
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01740 10
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01744 11
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01737 12
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01735 13
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01741 14
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01746 15
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01739 16
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01728 17
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01727 18
    10µm
Cruciplacolithus mikroprimus, Early Paleocene, Moscow Landing, bank of the Tombigbee River, Alabama, USA

Set number: 1340

  • Cruciplacolithus primus 24166 1
  • Cruciplacolithus primus 24164 2
  • Cruciplacolithus primus 24168 3
  • Cruciplacolithus primus 24172 4
  • Cruciplacolithus primus 24167 5
  • Cruciplacolithus primus 24165 6
  • Cruciplacolithus primus 24169 7
  • Cruciplacolithus primus 24171 8
    10µm
Cruciplacolithus mikroprimus, Early Paleocene, Kokaksu, Zonguldak, Turkey

Set number: 1341

  • Cruciplacolithus primus 24157 1
  • Cruciplacolithus primus 24155 2
  • Cruciplacolithus primus 24159 3
  • Cruciplacolithus primus 24162 4
  • Cruciplacolithus primus 24158 5
  • Cruciplacolithus primus 24156 6
  • Cruciplacolithus primus 24160 7
  • Cruciplacolithus primus 24161 8
    10µm
Cruciplacolithus mikroprimus, Early Paleocene, Kokaksu, Zonguldak, Turkey

Set number: 1342

  • Cruciplacolithus primus 22846 1
  • Cruciplacolithus primus 22845 2
  • Cruciplacolithus primus 22848 3
  • Cruciplacolithus primus 22852 4
  • Cruciplacolithus primus 22847 5
  • Cruciplacolithus primus 22844 6
  • Cruciplacolithus primus 22850 7
  • Cruciplacolithus primus 22851 8
    10µm
Cruciplacolithus mikroprimus, Early Paleocene, Kokaksu, Zonguldak, Turkey

Set number: 1343

  • Cruciplacolithus primus 22889 1
  • Cruciplacolithus primus 22887 2
  • Cruciplacolithus primus 22892 3
  • Cruciplacolithus primus 22894 4
  • Cruciplacolithus primus 22890 5
  • Cruciplacolithus primus 22888 6
  • Cruciplacolithus primus 22891 7
  • Cruciplacolithus primus 22893 8
    10µm
Cruciplacolithus mikroprimus, Early Paleocene, Kokaksu, Zonguldak, Turkey

Set number: 1368

  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01422 1
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01420 2
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01414 3
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01424 4
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01423 5
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01421 6
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01415 7
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01425 8
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01402 9
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01398 10
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01401 11
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01437 12
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01404 13
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01399 14
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01400 15
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01433 16
    10µm
Cruciplacolithus mikroprimus, Early Paleocene, Moscow Landing, bank of the Tombigbee River, Alabama, USA

Set number: 1369

  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01187 1
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01213 2
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01218 3
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01190 4
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01188 5
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01214 6
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01220 7
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01189 8
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01191 9
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01203 10
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01199 11
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01224 12
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01205 13
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01204 14
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01200 15
  • Cruciplacolithus primus VR 01221 16
    10µm
Cruciplacolithus mikroprimus, Early Paleocene, Moscow Landing, bank of the Tombigbee River, Alabama, USA
Final Epithet
Cruciplacolithus mikroprimus Varol, in prep.
Basionym

Cruciplacolithus mikroprimus Varol, in prep.

Synonyms

Cruciplacolithus primus (small) Perch-Nielsen, 1977 - Perch-Nielsen, 1981a,

Cruciplacolithus primus (small) Perch-Nielsen, 1977 - Perch-Nielsen, 1981c,

Cruciplacolithus primus Perch-Nielsen, 1977 - Varol, 1989, Pl. 12.1, Fig. 2; Pl. 12.3, Figs. 16-18.

Cruciplacolithus primus Perch-Nielsen, 1977- Varol, 1998, Pl. 7.3, Figs. 11-12.

Cruciplacolithus primus Perch-Nielsen, 1977- Galbrun & Gardin, 2004, p. 31, pl. 1, Fig.3.

Cruciplacolithus primus small (3-5µm) Perch-Nielsen, 1977 - Thibault et al., 2018, Fig. 3 pars; Fig. 5 pars; Fig. 7, 1-3.

Diagnosis

Small (<5.0µm) species of Cruciplacolithus with a narrow tube cycle and a central area with axial cross-bars.

Etymology

From Greek, mikro, small- referring to its small size

References

Galbrun, B., Gardin, S., 2004. New chronostratigraphy of the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary interval at Bidart (France). Earth and Planetary Science Letters 224, 19-32.

Perch-Nielsen, K., 1981a. Les coccolithes du Paléocène près de El Kef, Tunisie, et leurs ancêtres. Cahiers de Micropaléontologie 3, 7-23.

Perch-Nielsen, K.,1981c. Nouvelles observations sur les nannofossiles calcaires a la limite Crétacé-Tertiaire près de El Kef (Tunisie). Cahiers de Micropaléontologie 3, 25-37.

Thibault, N., Minoletti, F., Gardin, S., 2018. Offsets in the early Danian recovery phase in carbon isotopes: Evidence from the biometrics and phylogeny of the Cruciplacolithus lineage. Revue de Micropaléontologie61(2), 207-221.

Varol, O., 1989c. Palaeocene calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy. In: Crux, J. A. & van Heck, S. E. (eds), Nannofossils and their applications. Proceedings of the 2nd INA Conference, London 1987. - British Micropalaeontological Society Publication Series 265-310.

Varol, O., 1998. Palaeogene. In: Bown, P. R. (ed.), Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy. British Micropalaeontological Society Publication Series pp. 200-224