TRIAENOSPHAERA
n. gen. Deflandre, 1973c, p. 1150
Deflandre 1960a, p. 216. (Nom. Nudum)
[In French. Translation by J.P.C.]
Type species:Triaenosphaera sicarius Deflandre (monotypy)
Description:Coque sphérique perforée munie de quatre cornes multicostulées, disposées selon les axes d'un tétraèdre.
[Spherical shell perforate with four multi-sided horns distributed as the axes of a tetrahedron.]
Stratigraphic range:Visean, Carboniferous, Paleozoic.
Etymology:[No information given]
Subsequent descriptions:YES
Triaenosphaera sicarius n. sp. Deflandre, 1973c, p. 1150,
(Pl. 2, figs. 3, 4)
Deflandre 1960a, p. 216, pl. 1, fig. 10 (Nom. Nudum)
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Description and dimensions: Caractères du genre. Pores circulaires relativement grands; cornes très fortes, multicostulées, à base large, régulièrement atténuées vers l'extrémité, évoquant un poignard.
[Same characteristics as genus. Relatively big circular pores; very strong horns, multi-sided, with a wide base, progressively slender towards their end, looking like daggers.
Diameter 140-177µm, pore diameter approx. 7-12µm, horn bases 50-70µm, length of horns 150-200µm.
Repository:Holotype: Slide BD 52/H41. Collection of Micropaleontology. Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
Type locality: Sedimentary layer 15m high with phosphate nodules in lydites, 43° 34' 05"N - 1° 01' 05"E, Montagne Noire, Cabrières, Hérault, France. Exact location of the section unknown. Probably many outcrops.
Original stratigraphic range:Visean, Carboniferous, Paleozoic.
Etymology:[No information given]
Subsequent descriptions:YES
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Literature cited:- Deflandre, G. (1960a). A propos du développement des recherches sur les Radiolaires fossiles (Remarks about the expansion of radiolarian research). Revue de Micropaléontologie 2(4): 212-218.
- Deflandre, G. (1973c). Observations et remarques sur les Radiolaires Sphaerellaires du Paléozoique, propos d'une nouvelle espce, viséenne, du genre Foremaniella Defl., parfait intermédiaire entre les Périaxoplastidiés et les Pylentonémidés 'New observations and remarks about the Sphaerellarian Radiolaria from the Paleozoic, a new Visean species of the genus Foremaniella Defl., true intermediary between the Periaxoplastids and the Pylentonemids). Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Sciences (Paris), Série II 276: 1147-1151.
