Set number: 133

  • Pollicenotas enormis 5406 1
  • Pollicenotas enormis 5409 2
  • Pollicenotas enormis 5410 3
  • Pollicenotas enormis 5407 4
  • Pollicenotas enormis 5408 5
  • Pollicenotas enormis 5411 6
    10µm
Pollicenotas enormis, Late Santonian, Arabian Peninsula

Set number: 132

  • Pollicenotas enormis 5798 1
  • Pollicenotas enormis 5801 2
  • Pollicenotas enormis 5803 3
  • Pollicenotas enormis 5805 4
  • Pollicenotas enormis 5799 5
  • Pollicenotas enormis 5802 6
  • Pollicenotas enormis 5804 7
  • Pollicenotas enormis 5806 8
    10µm
Pollicenotas enormis, Late Turonian, Mauritania, West Africa
Final Epithet
Pollicenotas enormis (Shumenko, 1968) Varol, n. comb.
Basionym

Arkhangelskiella enormis Shumenko, 1968

Synonyms

Broinsonia bevieri Bukry, 1969

Aspidolithus angustus Noël, 1969 [invalid ICN Art.]

Broinsonia enormis (Shumenko, 1968) Manivit, 1971

Remarks

Relatively small species of Pollicenotas having a large elliptical central area with a non-porous plate [weekly to non-birefringent] surrounded by a wide birefringent tube cycle and narrow deemer distal shield. The fluted structure on the tube cycle is indistinct in LM.

References

Bukry, D., (1969): Upper Cretaceous coccoliths from Texas and Europe. - The University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, Article 51 (Protista 2): 1-79.

Manivit, H., (1971): Nannofossilescalcairesdu Crétacéfrancais(Aptien-Maestrichtien). Essaide Biozonationappuyéesur les stratotypes, Université de Paris.

Shumenko, S.I., (1968): Coccolithophorids as revealed by electron microscope. - Paleontological Journal, 4: 464-470.