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Neosemantis hofferti


Classification: rads_cenozoic -> Trissocyclidae -> Stephaniidae -> Neosemantis -> Neosemantis hofferti
Sister taxa: N. bjoerklundi, N. cladophora, N. distephanus, N. hofferti, N. sp.

Taxonomy

Citation: Neosemantis hofferti Goll 1980
Taxonomic rank: species
Basionym: Neosemantis hofferti
Synonyms:
1980 Neosemantis hofferti - Goll pl. 3, figs. 1-3

From Suzuki Paleotax db:

1980 Neosemantis hofferti n. sp. Goll p. 438, pl. 3, figs. 1-3
1989 Neosemantis hofferti Goll Alexandrovich pl. 1, fig. 12

Catalog entries: Neosemantis hofferti

Original description: Skeleton consists of cephalic elements andtheir associated spicules; no lattice shell. Apical and two primary lateral apophyses of equal length, 95-136m long, 7-9µm in diameter, distinctively tribladed in cross section. Frontal apophyse somewhat shorter, 74-98µm long, but otherwise identical to primary lateral apophyses. All apophyses radiate from short (10µm), round median bar, which bears a small spine-like axobate (pl. 3, fig. 3). Frontal and primary lateral apophyses lie in horizontal plane with median bars. Apical apophyse is slghtly arched, with convex side towards the front. Spicules 12-30µm long projectradially from the three ridges along the margins of each apophyse. These spicules are arranged in sets of regular verticils consisting of three spicules and spaced at intervals of 20-30µm along each apophyse. All specimens have a simple, well-developed vertical spine 18-32µm long, with or without profusion of micronodes.

Description

Biogeography and Palaeobiology

Biostratigraphic distribution

Geological Range:
Last occurrence (top): within Neogene Period (2.59-23.03Ma, top in Piacenzian stage). Data source: Lazarus et al. 2015 - "N age group"
First occurrence (base): within Neogene Period (2.59-23.03Ma, base in Aquitanian stage). Data source: Lazarus et al. 2015 - "N age group"

Plot of occurrence data:

References:

Goll, M. R. (1980). Pliocene-Pleistocene radiolarians from the East Pacific Rise and the Galapagos spreading center, Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 54. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project. 54: 425-453. gs


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