Reticulofenestra caucasica

Reticulofenestra caucasica Hay, Mohler & Wade 1966

Coccolithus coenurus Reinhardt, 1966a [Holotype: 10.0µm, Eocene]

Reticulofenestra tokodensis Baldi-Beke, 1982 [Holotype: 10.0µm, Middle Eocene]

Dictyococcites chriskingii Steurbaut, 2011 [Holotype: 10.4µm, Early Eocene]

Reticulofenestra clatrata Muller, 1970b

Holotype: 10.0µm, Middle Oligocene; the width of the central area is at least twice the width of the pelaga.

Length: 12.0µm

Large size [10.0 -14.0µm], elliptical species of Reticulofenestra have a featureless central area and a narrow tube cycle.

Reticulofenestra caucasica differs from similar-sized Reticulofenestra pelycomorpha in that it has an indistinct, narrow tube cycle.

Steurbaut, E. 2011. New calcareous nannofossil taxa from the Ypresian (Early Eocene) of the North Sea Basin and the Turan Platform in West Kazakhstan. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique Sciences de la Terre. 81: 247-277.

Reinhardt, P. 1966a. Fossile Vertreter coronoider und styloider Coccolithen (Family Coccolithaceae Poche 1913). Monatsberichte der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 8: 513-524.

Müller, C. 1970b. Nannoplankton-Zonen der Unteren-Meeresmolasse Bayerns. Geologica Bavarica 63: 107-118.

Hay, W. W., Mohler, H. P. & Wade, M. E. 1966. Calcareous nannofossils from Nal'chik (northwest Caucasus). Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 59: 379-399.

Báldi-Beke, M. 1982b. A new nannopankton species from sediments overlying the Eocene coal seams in Transdanubia. Magyar Allami Földtani Intezet Evi Jelentese. 297-308