Set number: 641

  • Bicolumnus scrippsae VR 025884 1
  • Bicolumnus scrippsae VR 025885 2
  • Bicolumnus scrippsae VR 025887 3
  • Bicolumnus scrippsae VR 025889 4
  • Bicolumnus scrippsae VR 025883 5
  • Bicolumnus scrippsae VR 025886 6
  • Bicolumnus scrippsae VR 025888 7
  • Bicolumnus scrippsae VR 025890 8
  • Bicolumnus scrippsae VR 025898 9
  • Bicolumnus scrippsae VR 025899 10
  • Bicolumnus scrippsae VR 025900 11
  • Bicolumnus scrippsae VR 025897 12
  • Bicolumnus scrippsae VR 025894 13
  • Bicolumnus scrippsae VR 025893 14
  • Bicolumnus scrippsae VR 025892 15
  • Bicolumnus scrippsae VR 025891 16
    10µm
Bicolumnus ovatus, Late Eocene, DSDP Leg 25, Site 242, Mozambique Channel (Davie Ridge), Indian Ocean
Final Epithet
Bicolumnus ovatus Wei & Wise, 1990
Basionym

Bicolumnus ovatus Wei & Wise, 1990

Holotype

The given size of the holotype is 6.5 µm. 

Remarks

In this study, specimens smaller than 8.0 µm are assigned to Bicolumnus ovatus, whereas those exceeding 8.0 µm are assigned to Bicolumnus scrippsae.

References

Bukry, D. & Percival, S. F. 1971. New Tertiary calcareous nannofossils. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 8: 123-146.

Wei, W. & Wise, S. W. 1990. Middle Eocene to Pleistocene calcareous nannofossils recovered by Ocean Drilling Program leg 113 in the Weddell Sea. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results 113: 639-666.