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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Botryocylinder Petrushevskaya 1975

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Higher levels: rads_cat -> B -> Botryocylinder
Other pages this level: Bathrocalpis, Bathropyramis, Bathysphaera, Bekoma, Bekomiforma, Belonozoum, Bisphaerocephalina, Bisphaerocephalus, Botryacantha, Botryocampe, Botryocanna, Botryocella, Botryocylinder, Botryocyrtis, Botryometra, Botryopera, Botryopyle, Botryostrobus, Brachiospyris, Buccinosphaera, Buryella

Botryocylinder

Citation: Botryocylinder Petrushevskaya 1975
Taxonomic rank: genus
Described on page(s) : 588

Current identification/main database link: Botryocylinder


Original Description

Multilobated cephalis rather variable. Branches a go from the middle of the height of the cephalis. Eucephalic and the antecephalic lobes are the same height. Cephalis about 30µm high. Thorax and abdomen and some other segments may be present. Pores on the segments in the transverse rows. The segments are separated by the internal rings. All the segments of nearly equal size and shape. The entire skeleton shape is a cylinder.

Etymology:
characteristic for the Artostrobids.
Genus is distinguished by its multisegmented skeleton It may be more closely related to Eucyrtidioidea than real Cannobotryoidea.

Stratigraphic range: Cretaceous-Paleogene. RHEYA C Hexalastromma RHEYB Haeck

Editors' Notes
Genus differs from Artostrobids by the low arranged branches a (and by other peculiarities of the cephalis), and by the absence of the ""cephalothorax

References:

Petrushevskaya, M. G. (1975a). Cenozoic radiolarians of the Antarctic, Leg 29, DSDP. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project. 29: 541-675. gs O


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Botryocylinder compiled by the radiolaria@mikrotax project team viewed: 7-2-2026

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