Catalog entries: Dictyoceras insectum
Original description: Shell with two distinct strictures. Length of the three joints = 1: 3: 2, breadth = 2: 4: 3. Cephalis hemispherical, with a slender pyramidal horn of twice the length. Thorax subspherical, in the upper half with three divergent lattice-wings of the same length, each of which represents a slender, fenestrated, three-sided pyramid. Abdomen subovate, with wide, truncate mouth (in the figured specimen broken off). Pores circular, small, of different sizes.
Remarks on original description: Now Lipmanella insectum
Stratigraphic information for LM21 from Riedel, 1959, p.287.[comment from RadWorld database]
Geological Range:
Last occurrence (top): Extant. Data source: Lazarus et al. 2015 - "R age group"
First occurrence (base): within Quaternary Period (0.00-2.59Ma, base in Gelasian stage). Data source: Lazarus et al. 2015 - "R age group"
Plot of occurrence data:
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Lipmanella insectum compiled by the radiolaria@mikrotax project team viewed: 15-7-2025
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