Published February 9, 2023 | Version v1
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Kittonia hannae Lefebure & Cheneviere 1939

  • 1. Dorfstrasse 33, CH - 8933, Maschwanden, Switzerland
  • 2. Stresemannstrasse, Kaiserslautern, Germany
  • 3. The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW 7 5 BD, UK

Description

Kittonia hannae ‘hannai’ Lefébure & Chenevière 1939: 23, pl. 1, fig. 3 (Figs 2–7)

Type:—“Moreno shale, Moreno Gulch in the Panoche Hills, Fresno County, California ” […] “Sec. 6, T. 15 S., R. 12 E., M.D.B. & M., Fresno County, California ”, holotype unknown; lectotype in Lefébure & Chenevière 1939: pl. 1, fig. 3 = Sims & Williams 2022: fig. 8), designated here; Potter slide =? isolectotype.

Illustrations and specimens: Long et al. 1946: pl. 19, figs 6, 7 (their figure 6 = our Figures 2, 3); Brigger & Hanna 1965: figs 2, 3 (= specimens from CAS 205065, 6; their figure 2 = Wornardt 1972: pl. 4, fig. l); Chambers 1997: pl. 14, figs 10, 11 (= specimens from BM 63885).

Notes

Published as part of Huwiler, Martin, Gleich, Anne & Williams, David M., 2023, A note on the specimens of Kittonia hannae ' hannai' (Bacillariophyta) figured in Long et al. (1946), pp. 55-58 in Phytotaxa 584 (1) on page 57, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.584.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/7624087

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References

  • Lefebure, P. & Cheneviere, E. (1939) Description et Iconographie de Diatomees rares ou nouvelles. II. Bulletin de la Societe Francaise de Microscopie 8: 21 - 25.
  • Sims, P. A. & Williams, D. M. (2022) Description of the new species Kittonia kempii (Biddulphiales: Kittoniaceae) with comments on Kittonia hannai P. Lefebure & Cheneviere and Kittonia gigantea (Greville) De Toni. Phytotaxa 573 (2): 275 - 285. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / phytotaxa. 573.2.7
  • Long, J. A., Fuge, D. P. & Smith, J. (1946) Diatoms of the Moreno Shale. Journal of Paleontology 20: 89 - 118 [Hanna, G. D. Introduction. Notes on the geology and general paleontology of the Moreno Shale, pp. 89 - 94; Long, J. A., Fuge, D. P. & Smith, J. Description of fossils, pp. 94 - 118] [https: // www. jstor. org / stable / 1299377]
  • Brigger, A. L. & Hanna, G. D. (1965) A review of Kittonia, a genus of diatoms. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 50: 1 - 10. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 3163873]
  • Wornardt, W. W. (1972) Stratigraphic distribution of diatom genera in marine sediments in western North America. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 12: 49 - 74. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / 0031 - 0182 (72) 90006 - 5
  • Chambers, P. E. (1997 [1996]) Late Cretaceous and Palaeocene marine diatom floras. Thesis, Department of Geological Sciences, University College London.