Taxonomy:
Catalog entries: Chrysochromulina tenuispina
Original description: Protoplast globose to anisodiametric, c. 8-13 µm when dry but probably up to 50% larger alive, with two equal flagella, each up to 30 µm long and a haptonema somewhat though not much shorter. Periplast scales large, flat, and of two kinds, evenly distributed and respectively with and without centrally attached, rigid, slender spines each up to 3 µm long × 0.05-0.1 µm thick, bluntly pointed. Both scale-types with narrow patternless rims but the base plates of spines a little smaller and more circular than the spineless plates. The latter commonly 1.3 × 1.6 µm. Surface patterning similar in both scale-types, the proximal faces dominated by radial ridges arranged in quadrants and the distal faces by a few, well separated, spiral threads coiled in an anticlockwise direction if seen from above and interpreted centripetally. This direction continuing up every spine to give a twist of about 21⁄2 turns along its length. Both scale faces exhibiting traces of other components located between the surfaces of the scale.
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Geological Range:
Last occurrence (top): Extant. Data source:
First occurrence (base): within No known fossil record modern (0.00-0.00Ma, base in "Holocene" stage). Data source:
Manton, I. (1978). Chrysochromulina tenuispina sp. nov. from Arctic Canada. British Phycological Journal. 13: 227-234. gs References:
Chrysochromulina tenuispina compiled by Jeremy R. Young viewed: 3-11-2024
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