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Crucella beata

Protozoa - Spumellaria - Hagiastridae

Discussion

Description: Test thick with four wide rays. Rays subellipsolidal in cross section, medium in length, with five to six external beans and four to five sublinearly arranged rows of rectangular pore frames. Central area large with irregularly arranged subtriangular or rectangular pore frames. Primary spines medium in length, moderately thick, circular in axial section. Test with or without patagium.

Remarks: Pseudocrucella beata, n. sp., differs from P. jurassica. n. sp., by having a wider test with rays which are ellipsoidal in axial section and by lacking a central cavity.

Etymology: Beatus-a-um (Latin, adj.) happy.

Taxonomy

Pseudocrucella beata was named by Yeh (1987). Its type specimen is NMNS (000019) and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Suplee-Izee area, OR-536J, which is in a Pliensbachian marine mudstone/limestone in the Nicely Formation of Oregon.

It was recombined as Crucella beata by Baumgartner (1995).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

C. affinis, C. aster, C. baliarica, C. bisulca, C. bossoensis, C. capaluluensis, C. carterae, C. crassa, C. crucifera, C. euganea, C. hamiltoni, C. hispana, C. inflexa, C. latum, C. linda, C. lipmanae, C. planum, C. remanei, C. robusta, C. taliabuensis, C. thurowi, C. westermanni

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1987	Pseudocrucella beata Yeh
1995	Crucella beata Baumgartner

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Rank	Name	Author
—	Life
—	Eukaryota	()
class	Protozoa	Goldfuss 1820
subphylum	Sarcodina	Schmarda 1871
class	Reticularea	Lankester 1885

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Radiolaria	(Müller 1858)
order	Spumellaria	Ehrenberg 1875
family	Hagiastridae	Riedel 1971
genus	Crucella	Pessagno 1971
species	beata	()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Crucella beata Yeh 1987

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

silicap

Environment:

marinep

Locomotion:

passively mobilep

Life habit:

planktonicp

Diet:

omnivorep

Created:

2005-01-28 01:13:47

Modified:

2005-01-28 03:13:47

Source: p = phylum

Reference: Kiessling 1999

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pliensbachian to the top of the Early/Lower Bathonian or 192.90000 to 165.30000 Ma

Collections (4 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Pliensbachian	192.9 - 184.2	USA (Oregon)	Pseudocrucella beata (type locality: 124323 124324 124325)
Early/Lower Bathonian	168.2 - 165.3	USA (Oregon)	Crucella beata (94149)