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Rutilaria areolata Sheshukova-Poretskaya in Sheshukova-Poretskaya & Gleser (1964) (1964)

Comment: An unusually long and slender valve. The lower pole is broken off, and the tip of the upper pole is missing. Also the linking structure (periplekton) is only partly preserved.

Locality: Ocean Drilling Program Hole 1050A (Blake Nose, western North Atlantic), sample: 171B-1050A-8H-1, 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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