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Thaumatonema costatum Greville (1865)

Comment: Partly broken valve of an extremely rare species. Only several specimens have been examined and illustrated since Greville proposed this species in 1865.

Locality: Ocean Drilling Program Hole 1050A (Blake Nose, western North Atlantic), sample: 171B-1050A-3H-6, 100-101 cm (middle Eocene).

Photographed using: Zeiss Axio.A1, Plan-APOCHROMAT 100×/1.4 Oil DIC + Zeiss AxioCam ICc 5. Stacked using Helicon Focus.

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