Varol Research | Gephyrocapsa lumina

Set number: 1531

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Gephyrocapsa lumina, Middle Pleistocene, DSDP Leg 23, Site 229A, Red Sea

Set number: 1515

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Gephyrocapsa lumina, Late Pleistocene, DSDP Leg 23, Site 229A, Red Sea

Set number: 1530

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Gephyrocapsa lumina, Late Pleistocene, DSDP Leg 23, Site 229A, Red Sea

Set number: 1493

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Gephyrocapsa lumina, Late Pleistocene, DSDP Leg 23, Site 229A, Red Sea

Set number: 1510

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Gephyrocapsa lumina, Late Pleistocene, DSDP Leg 23, Site 229A, Red Sea

Final Epithet

Gephyrocapsa lumina Bukry, 1973c

Basionym

Gephyrocapsa lumina Bukry, 1973c

Dimensions Of Holotype

Length: 4.0µm

Bridge angle to major axis: ~45°

Remarks

Species of Gephyrocapsa are distinguished by a central area narrower than the pelaga, with a bridge set at a high angle to the major axis of the placolith.

References

Bukry, D., 1973c. Coccolith stratigraphy, eastern equatorial Pacific, Leg 16, Deep Sea Drilling Project. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project 16, 653-711.

Taxonomy

Gephyrocapsa

Biostratigraphy

Stratigraphic Range

Calabrian - Tarantian

Age (Ma)

1.80? - 0.01?

Holotype

Gephyrocapsa lumina Bukry, 1973c

Quaternary

DSDP Leg 16, Site 157, Carnegie Ridge,