SAMTLEBENELLA

Hussain, Rowshi, Rogers, Steven L. & Blackburn, Joel A., 2022, Ovummuridae (calcareous microfossils) from the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation, Shropshire, UK, Palaeontologia Electronica (a 27) 25 (2), pp. 1-24 : 10

Genus SAMTLEBENELLA

Munnecke, Servais, and Vachard, 2000

Derivation of name. After Christian Samtleben, University of Kiel , specialist in calcareous nannofossils (coccolithophores) who initiated petrographic studies of the micritic limestones of the Silurian of Gotland; genus feminine .

Type species. Samtlebenella circumcamerata , the only species known.

Original diagnosis. Ovummuridae with an aperture and a pseudo-septum, characterised by its ellipsoidal chamberlets regularly distributed in the wall.

Remarks. Difficult to determine in cross-section and are very similar in appearance to Calcispheres and can only be distinguished by their walls.

Stratigraphical range. Lower Silurian (Homerian).