Taxonomy:
Ninadiacrodium caudatum is a distinctive and stratigraphically important taxon. To avoid any potential dilution of the specific concept a possibly closely related form encountered in the Comley samples is treated separately below as N. aff. caudatum. [Potter et al. 2012]
Size: 13 specimens. Vesicle length 23.5 (30) 35 μm; vesicle breadth 18.5 (23) 29 μm; apical process length 7 (11.5) 17.5 μm; antapical process length 10 (13) 18.5 μm; antapical process number 7 (9) 11. [Potter et al. 2012]
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Potter, T. L., Pedder, B. E. & Feist-Burkhardt, S. (2012). Cambrian Furongian Series acritarchs from the Comley area, Shropshire, England. Journal of Micropalaeontology. 31(1): 1-28. gs Raevskaya, E. G. & Servais, T. (2009). Ninadiacrodium; a new Late Cambrian acritarch genus and index fossil. Palynology. 33(1): 219-239. gs Vanguestaine, M. (1973). New acritarchs from the upper Cambrian of Belgium. In: microfossils of the oldest deposits. In, Proceedings of the Third International Palynological Conference, Novosibirsk, 1971. Trudyi Instituta Geologii i Geogiziki, Sibiriskoe Otlodelenie, Akademiya Nauk SSSR (Nauka) Moscow. 28-30. gsReferences:
Acritax - Acritax_Camb - Ninadiacrodium caudatum by: Jeremy R. Young, Paul R. Bown, Jacqueline A. Lees viewed: 20-1-2021
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