Type Species

Cribrosphaera ehrenbergi Arkhangelsky, 1912

Synonyms

Cribrosphaera Arkhangelsky, 1912, were preoccupied by Cribrosphaera Popofsky, 1906

Favocentrum Black 1964

Cretadiscus Gartner 1968

Optical Properties

The beaded elements display white interference colours and exhibit inclined extinction lines, whereas the shields and the central perforation remain in constant extinction.

Remarks

Elliptical to circular placoliths possessing three-tiered shields composed of non-imbricated segments, a central area with a permanent perforation, and a ring of distinct beaded elements near the inner periphery of the proximal shield. No tube cycle is present.

References

Arkhangelsky, A. D. 191). Upper Cretaceous deposits of east European Russia. Materialien zur Geologie Russlands. 25: 1-631.

Black, M. 1964. Cretaceous and Tertiary coccoliths from Atlantic seamounts. Palaeontology 7: 306-316.

Deflandre, G. 1952b. Classe des Coccolithophoridés. In: Piveteau, J. (Ed.) Traité de Paléontologie. Masson, Paris 107-115.

Gartner, S., 1968. Coccoliths and related calcareous nannofossils from Upper Cretaceous deposits of Texas and Arkansas. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, Articles 48 (Protista 1), 1-56.

Popofsky, A. 1906. Die nordischen Acantharien. Teil II: Acanthophracta. Nordisches Plankton, 3 (Lief. 5), XV: 71–93.