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Dentoplanispirinella occulta Förderer & Langer, 2016
Description Förderer, M.; Langer, M. R. (2016). Five new species and one new genus of recent miliolid foraminifera from Raja Ampat (West Papua, Indonesia). PeerJ. 4: e2157.Holotype, paratype, CT scans and details of Dentoplanispirinella gen. nov. occulta sp. nov.
(A) Side view and (B) apertural view of a more juvenile specimen with a nearly triangular aperture and weakly developed tooth (paratype); (C) side view and (D) apertural view (holotype); (E) apertural view of a specimen with a well-developed tooth and elongated aperture; (F) detail of a well-developed peripheral keel; (G) CT scan reconstruction of the chamber cavities revealing the presence of 2.5 – 3.5 chambers per whorl in an adult specimen (note that penultimate chamber is broken); (H) CT scan showing planispirally arranged chambers; (I) detail of an aperture with a very well-developed tooth; (J) detail of the striate surface ornamentation; (K) detail of the construction of the outer wall layer showing randomly arranged calcite needles in the lower part (test surface removed) and longitudinally arranged calcite needles on the outer test surface. Scale bar is 100 µm (unless indicated). PNG file - 5.68 MB - 2 787 x 2 161 pixels added on 2024-02-29452 viewsWoRMS taxa Dentoplanispirinella occulta Förderer & Langer, 2016checked Le Coze, François 2024-02-29
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