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Eiffellithus bifidibrachia Varol, in prep.
?Eiffellithus sp. sensu Wise & Wind, 1977. The specimen illustrated in Plate 50, Fig. 2, originates from the same material as the specimens illustrated in the present study.
Eiffellithus species are characterised by a delicate, dark axial cross with each arm longitudinally divided into two parallel halves.
From Latin bifidus, split into two and brachium, arm, referring to the longitudinal division of the cross arms into two halves.
Wise, S. W. & Wind, F. H. 1977. Mesozoic and Cenozoic calcareous nannofossils recovered by DSDP Leg 36 drilling on the Falkland Plateau, south-west Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project 36: 269-491