Set number: 781

  • S pulchra 1
  • Syracosphaera pulchra 1473 6 2
  • Syracosphaera pulchra 1473 7 3
  • Syracosphaera pulchra 1473 5 4
  • Syracosphaera pulchra 1466 31 5
Syracosphaera pulchra, Early Pliocene, Antalya Basin, Turkey

Fig. 1 Length: 5.8µm; Fig. 2 Length: 8.4µm; Fig. 3 Length: 4.5µm; Fig. 4 Length: 5.3µm; Fig. 5 Length: 6.0µm

Set number: 1465

  • Syracosphaera pulchra VR 10869 1
  • Syracosphaera pulchra VR 10872 2
  • Syracosphaera pulchra VR 10873 3
  • Syracosphaera pulchra VR 10881 4
  • Syracosphaera pulchra VR 10870 5
  • Syracosphaera pulchra VR 10871 6
  • Syracosphaera pulchra VR 10874 7
  • Syracosphaera pulchra VR 10880 8
  • Syracosphaera pulchra VR 10882 9
  • Syracosphaera pulchra VR 10879 10
  • Syracosphaera pulchra VR 10884 11
  • Syracosphaera pulchra VR 10877 12
    10µm
Syracosphaera pulchra, Pleistocene, DSDP Leg 23, Site 225, Red Sea
Final Epithet
Syracosphaera pulchra Lohmann, 1902
Basionym

Syracosphaera puchra Lohmann, 1902

Description

The 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.

References

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