Set number: 67

  • Hattneria elegans 17856 1
  • Hattneria elegans 17858 2
  • Hattneria elegans 17861 3
  • Hattneria elegans 17866 4
  • Hattneria elegans 17857 5
  • Hattneria elegans 17860 6
  • Hattneria elegans 17862 7
  • Hattneria elegans 17863 8
    10µm
Hattneria elegans, Late Campanian, DSDP Leg 36, Site 327A, The Maurice Ewing Bank, Falkland Plateau

Set number: 65

  • Hattneria elegans 16563 1
  • Hattneria elegans 16561 2
  • Hattneria elegans 16564 3
  • Hattneria elegans 16572 4
  • Hattneria elegans 16567 5
  • Hattneria elegans 16562 6
  • Hattneria elegans 16565 7
  • Hattneria elegans 16568 8
    10µm
Hattneria elegans, Late Campanian, DSDP Leg 36, Site 327A, The Maurice Ewing Bank, Falkland Plateau

Set number: 66

  • Hattneria elegans 16626 1
  • Hattneria elegans 16628 2
  • Hattneria elegans 16630 3
  • Hattneria elegans 16633 4
  • Hattneria elegans 16627 5
  • Hattneria elegans 16629 6
  • Hattneria elegans 16631 7
  • Hattneria elegans 16632 8
    10µm
Hattneria elegans, Late Campanian, DSDP Leg 36, Site 327A, The Maurice Ewing Bank, Falkland Plateau

Set number: 63

  • Hattneria cryptochondrus 4011 1
  • Hattneria cryptochondrus 4010 2
  • Hattneria cryptochondrus 4008 3
  • Hattneria cryptochondrus 4009 4
    10µm
Hattneria elegans , Late Campanian, Unknown

Set number: 62

  • Hattneria cryptochondrus 3900 1
  • Hattneria cryptochondrus 3899 2
  • Hattneria cryptochondrus 4008 3
  • Hattneria cryptochondrus 3898 4
    10µm
Hattneria elegans, Late Campanian, Unknown

Set number: 61

  • Hattneria cryptochondrus 4264 1
  • Hattneria cryptochondrus 4261 2
  • Hattneria cryptochondrus 4265 3
  • Hattneria cryptochondrus 4263 4
  • Hattneria cryptochondrus 4262 5
  • Hattneria cryptochondrus 4266 6
    10µm
Hattneria elegans, Early Campanian, Unknown
Final Epithet
Hattneria elegans (Gartner, 1968) Varol, n. comb.
Basionym

Zygodiscus elegans Gartner, 1968

Synonyms

Cretarhabdus? anthophorus (Deflandre, 1959) Bramlette & Martini, 1964, p. 299, pl. 3, figs. 1-4.

Zygodiscus elegans Gartner, 1968 (pars), 32, pl. 10, figs. 3-5; pl. 12, figs. 3, 4, pl. 27, fig. 1; non-pl. 10, fig. 6.

Reinhardtites sp. aff anthophorus (Deflandre, 1959) Perch-Nielsen, 1968 - Prins & Sissingh in Sissingh 1977, pl.1, figs. 4a-b

Remarks

Species of Hattneria having two small central openings on both sides of the transverse bar along the long axis. The transverse bar is aligned with the short axis. Fluted structures are distinct under the light microscope.

References

Bramlette, M. N. & Martini, E., (1964): The great change in calcareous nannoplankton fossils between the Maastrichtian and Danian. - Micropaleontology. 10(2): 291-322

Burnett, J. A., (1997): New species and new combinations of Cretaceous nannofossils and a note on the origin of Petrarhabdus (Deflandre) Wise & Wind. - Journal of Nannoplankton Research. 19(2): 133-146.

Deflandre, G., (1959): Sur les nannofossiles calcaires et leur systématique. - Revue de Micropaléontologie. 2: 127-152.

Gartner, S., (1968): Coccoliths and related calcareous nannofossils from Upper Cretaceous deposits of Texas and Arkansas. The University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, Article 48 (Protista 1): 1-56.

Hattner, J. G. & Wise, S. W., (1980): Upper Cretaceous calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of South Carolina. - South Carolina Geology. 24: 41-117.

Sissingh, W., (1977): Biostratigraphy of Cretaceous calcareous nannoplankton. - Geologie en Mijnbouw. 65(1): 37-65.

Stover, L.E., (1966): Cretaceous coccoliths and associated nannofossils from France and the Netherlands. - Micropaleontology, 12: 133-167.