Reticulofenestra pelycomorphus

Coccolithus pelycomorphus Reinhardt, 1966

Reticulofenestra pelycomorphus (Reinhardt, 1966) Perch-Nielsen, 1985; Invalid ICN Art. 41.5

Length: 12.0µm

Large [10.0 - 14.0 µm], elliptical species of Reiculofenestra Hay, Mohler & Wade (1966) having distinctly wide tube cycle.

Reticulofenestra pelycomorphus differs from similar size Reticulofenestra caucasica Hay, Mohler & Wade (1966) by having a very wide tube cycle.

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

Perch-Nielsen, K., (1985): Cenozoic calcareous nannofossils. In, Bolli, H. M., Saunders, J. B. & Perch-Nielsen, K. (eds) - Plankton Stratigraphy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 427-555.

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