Velicucullus Riedel & Campbell, 1952

Popova, Irina M., Baumgartner, Peter O., Guex, Jean, Tochilina, Svetlana V. & Glezer, Zoya I., 2002, Radiolarian biostratigraphy of Paleogene deposits of the Russian Platform (Voronesh Anticline), Geodiversitas 24 (1), pp. 7-59 : 51

Genus Velicucullus Riedel & Campbell, 1952

Velicucullus sp. aff. oddgurneri BjØrklund, 1976 ( Fig. 8J )

Velicucullus oddgurneri BjØrklund, 1976: 1126 , pl. 19, figs 6-9.

GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION. — Norwegian- Greenland Sea, Voronesh Anticline.

STRATIGRAPHIC RANGE. —Of Velicucullus oddgurneri: Oligocene-Pliocene, Norwegian-Greenland Sea ( BjØrklund 1976; Petrushevskaya & Kozlova 1979); middle Eocene (this study).

REMARKS

The difference between the holotype and our species is in the structure and size of the first segment.

Figures

FIG. 8. — Early Eocene (3, 5-7, 9, 11-15) and middle-late Eocene (1, 2, 4, 8) Radiolarian association, Petropavlovka Village, Well 730, interval 44.3 m; A, Triactis triactis (Ehrenberg, 1873); B, D, Thecosphaera rotunda Borisenko, 1960; C, Heterosestrum formosum trispinum (Tochilina, 1972) emend.; E, I, Lithocyclia sp.; F, G, Periphaena heliasteriscus (Clark & Campbell, 1942); H, Stylodictya targaeformis (Clark & Campbell, 1942); J, Velicucullus sp. aff. oddgurneri Bjørklund, 1976; K, O(?), Spiromultitunica sp. aff. Prunopyle hayesi Chen, 1975; L, M, Spongoprunum (?) probus (Rüst, 1888); N, Hexacontium (?) sp. Scale bars: 100 µm.