Obturolithus antarcticus

Dictyococcites antarcticus Haq, 1976

? Dictyococcites perplexa Burns 1975; Two holotypes were cited, Invalid according to ICN Art. 40.3

Reticulofenestra perplexa (Burns 1975) Wise1983; Two holotypes were cited, Invalid according to ICN Art. 40.3

Reticulofenestra antarctica (Haq, 1976) Driever, 1988

Length: 5.9µm

Medium size (4.0 - 6.0µm) species of Obturolithus.

Burns, D. A., 1975. Distribution, abundance, and preservation of nannofossils in Eocene to Recent Antarctic sediments. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 18(4), 583-595.

Driever, B. W. M., 1988. Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy and paleoenvironmental interpretation of the Mediterranean Pliocene. Utrecht Micropaleontological Bulletin 36, 1-245.

Haq, B. U., 1976. Coccoliths in cores from the Bellinghausen abyssal plain and Antarctic continental rise (DSDP Leg 35). Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project 35, 557-567.

Wise, S. W., 1983. Mesozoic and Cenozoic calcareous nannofossils recovered by DSDP Leg 71 in the Falkland Plateau region, Southwest Atlantic Ocean. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project 71, 481-550.