Bathycyathus
Milne Edwards and Haime, 1848
Type Species
Bathycyathus chilensis Milne Edwards and Haime, 1848; Original Designation
Type Specimen: Holotype; ; Not Traced; Unknown
Type Locality: Recent, Pacific Ocean (off the coast of Chile).
Classification
Synonyms
Diagnosis
Solitary, turbinate or variably conical, fixed or free. Often circular in outline in juvenile stages, becoming compressed in later ontogenetical stages. Costosepta laminar, compact. Septal margins smooth or nearly smooth. Pali not distinct from columellar laths. Columella formed by twisted trabecular segments. Endothecal dissepiments few in number. Wall septothecal, septoparathecal when not properly thickened.
Distribution
- North America; Late Cretaceous - Oligocene
- Central Europe; Late Cretaceous
- Eastern Pacific; Recent
Paleocene of Ivory Coast, Belgium, and Denmark (Greenland),This page has been in preparation since 08-Oct-2008 15:21
This version was contributed by Rosemarie Baron-Szabo on 10-Sep-2010 20:47.
Page authors are: Rosemarie Baron-Szabo Stephen D. Cairns. Please contact the editor if you would like to contribute to the diagnosis of this taxon.
The editor is: Stephen D. Cairns
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