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Alveolophora americana
Alveolophora americana Usolts., Kociolek, Khurs. Phycologia, 52(1): 111. 4 Jan 2013
- Name
- Alveolophora americana
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Alveolophora
- Authors (Pub.)
- Usoltseva M. V.
Kociolek J. P.
Khursevich G. K.
- Publication
- Three new species of Alveolophora (Aulacoseiraceae, Bacillariophyceae)
from Miocene deposits in western North America [2013/1]
- Journal
- Phycologia
- Volume
- 52
- Issue
- 1
- Page number
- 111
- Year
- 2013
- Fossil Status
- valves
- Stratigraphy
- Miocene
- Location
- Lyon County, Nevada, USA
- Paleoregion
- America (North)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
- Repository Number
- Slide no. 429080 in the Kociolek Collection
- Diagnosis
- Frustules in valve view oval or ovoid to nearly linear. Valve diameter along the apical axis 11.5–31.0 um, along the transapical axis 5–21 um. Some small valves with 6 um in apical axis and 5 um in transapical axis. Areolae on the valve face often located over the entire surface, occasionally isolated as a ring near the margin. Most frustules short cylinders, 3–10 um in height,
with two to three pervalvar rows of areolae having robust costae. Separation spines pointed.
