Type Species

Syracosphaera pulchra Lohmann, 1902

Description

The three-shielded placoliths [may be interpreted loxolith with distal, mid-wall and proximal flanges] with a wide central area with or without distal process.

Remarks

Syracosphaera is three-shielded placoliths [may be interpreted as loxolith with distal, mid-wall and proximal flanges] with a wide central area with or without distal process. Coronosphaera Lohmann (1902) and Laminolithus Heimdal in Heimdal & Gaarder (1980) are loxoliths.

References

Gaarder, K. R. & Heimdal, B. R., (1977): A revision of the genus Syracosphaera Lohmann (Coccolithineae). - “Meteor” Forschungsergebnisse, Reihe D, Biologie. 24: 54-71.

Heimdal, B. R. & Gaarder, K. R., (1980): Coccolithophorids from the northern part of the eastern central Atlantic I. Holococcolithophorids. - “Meteor” Forschungsergebnisse, Reihe D, Biologie. 32: 1-14.

Lohmann, H., (1902): Die Coccolithophoridae, eine Monographie der Coccolithen bildenden Flagellaten, zugleich ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis des Mittelmeerauftriebs. - Archiv für Protistenkunde. 1: 89-165.