Set number: 4632

  • Pontosphaera ovata VR 32373 1
  • Pontosphaera ovata VR 32376 2
  • Pontosphaera ovata VR 32377 3
  • Pontosphaera ovata VR 32380 4
  • Pontosphaera ovata VR 32374 5
  • Pontosphaera ovata VR 32375 6
  • Pontosphaera ovata VR 32378 7
  • Pontosphaera ovata VR 32379 8
  • Pontosphaera ovata VR 32387 9
  • Pontosphaera ovata VR 32390 10
  • Pontosphaera ovata VR 32383 11
  • Pontosphaera ovata VR 32384 12
  • Pontosphaera ovata VR 32386 13
  • Pontosphaera ovata VR 32388 14
  • Pontosphaera ovata VR 32382 15
  • Pontosphaera ovata VR 32385 16
    10µm
Pontosphaera ovata, Middle Oligocene, DSDP Leg 25, Site 242, Mozambique Channel (Davie Ridge), Indian Ocean

Set number: 2509

  • Pontosphaera ovata 48918 1
  • Discolithina ovata 48917 2
  • Pontosphaera ovata 48920 3
  • Discolithina ovata 48922 4
  • Pontosphaera ovata 48919 5
  • Pontosphaera ovata 48916 6
  • Discolithina ovata 48921 7
  • Pontosphaera ovata 48922 8
    10µm
Pontosphaera ovata, Early Eocene, Santos Basin, Brazil
Final Epithet
Pontosphaera ovata (Levin & Joerger, 1967) Aubry, 1986b
Basionym

Discolithina ovata Levin & Joerger, 1967

Synonyms

Discolithina segmenta Bukry & Percival, 1971

Pontosphaera segmenta (Bukry & Percival, 1971) Knuttel, 1986

Pontosphaera ovata (Levin & Joerger, 1967) Varol, 1989a

References

Aubry, M-P. 1986b. Validation of new combinations. INA Newsletter 8(2): 91-92.

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

Levin, H. L. & Joerger, A. P. 1967. Calcareous nannoplankton from the Tertiary of Alabama. Micropaleontology 13(2): 163-182.

Knuttel, S. 1986. Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of the Central East Pacific Rise, Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 92: evidence for downslope transport of sediments. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project 92: 255-290.

Varol, O. 1989a. Calcareous nannofossil study of the central and western Solomon Islands. In: Vedder, J.G. & Bruns, T.R., (Eds.), Geology and offshore resources of Pacific island arc-Solomon Islands and Bougainville, Papua New Guinea Regions: Houston, Texas, Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources Earth Sciences Series. 12: 239-268.