Noblella Kozur, Mostler & Repetski, 1996

Noble, Paula, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Danelian, Taniel, Dumitrica, Paulian, Maletz, Jörg, Suzuki, Noritoshi, Cuvelier, Jessie, Caridroit, Martial & O’Dogherty, Luis, 2017, Taxonomy of Paleozoic radiolarian genera, Geodiversitas 39 (3), pp. 419-502 : 434-435

Noblella Kozur, Mostler & Repetski, 1996

Noblella Kozur, Mostler & Repetski, 1996: 255 .

TYPE SPECIES. — Noblella tremadociensis Kozur, Mostler & Repetski, 1996 ( Kozur et al. 1996: 255, pl. 7, fig. 3).

AGE AND LOCATION OF TYPE MATERIAL. — Tremadocian, Lower Ordovician, Windfall Formation, Antelope Range, Nevada, USA.

TAXON CODE. — 061.

STATUS. — Homonym and Junior synonym of Protoentactinia (homonymy recognized and replacement name Paulanobella introduced by Kozur & Repetski [2002]).

DIAGNOSIS. — “The robust spicular system is branched in its largest part, in the manner typical of the Protoentactiniidae (median bar with 3-4 terminal rays), and forms an ovoid to subglobular, loose spongy test. The most robust rays of the spicular system are con- centrated on one side of the test, and 2 robust terminal rays (out of 4) in this portion of the test are different from all other rays in being straight, unbranched, but having 3-4 verticiles, from which needle-like spines originate.” ( Kozur et al. 1996: 255).

REMARKS This genus name is a homonym with an amphibian and the replacement name, Paulanoblella , was later proposed ( Kozur & Repetski 2002). Paulanoblella is considered a junior synonym to Protoentactinia (See remarks under Paulanoblella ).