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Stauroacanthocircus Kozur & Mostler, 1983 emend. Kozur & Mostler 1990

Description

Stauroacanthocircus sp. A

(Fig. 10R)

OCCURRENCE. — Lower Jurassic, lower Sinemurian of Mersin Mélange, NW of Mersin city, southern Turkey.

DESCRIPTION

Shell not preserved, ring broad and elliptical. Thin ring contains eight, thin, needle-like spines. Inner cavity broad, elliptical with four thin polar spines.

REMARKS

This specimen differs from Stauroacanthocircus dickinsoni (Yeh 1989: 50, pl. 13, fig. 18) by having a broad elliptical ring and inner cavity, and thin, short peripheral and polar spines.

Notes

Published as part of Tekin, Kagan, Krystyn, Leopold, Okuyucu, Cengiz, Bedi, Yavuz & Sayit, Kaan, 2020, Late Triassic to Early Jurassic radiolarian, conodont and ammonite assemblages from the Tavuscayiri block, Mersin Mélange, southern Turkey: Time constraints for the T / J boundary and sedimentary evolution of the southern margin of the northern Neotethys, pp. 493-537 in Geodiversitas 42 (27) on page 519, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a27, http://zenodo.org/record/4447758

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References

  • YEH K. 1989. - Studies of Radiolaria from the Fields Creek Formation, East-Central Oregon, United States. Bulletin of the National Museum of Natural Sciences, Taiwan 1: 43 - 110.