Dictyomitra

Specimen of Dictyomitra montisserei, from Babazedeh & Wever (2004). Scale bar = 30 µm.


Belongs within: Stichocapsoidea.

Dictyomitra is a Mesozoic genus of radiolarians with a conical shell bearing open pores between well-developed segmental constrictions.

Dictyomitra Zittel 1876 BW04
    |--D. brouweri BL79
    |--D. carpatica BL79
    |--D. chalilovi BL79
    |--D. duodesimcostata BL79
    |--D. excellens (Tan 1927) BW04
    |--D. gracilis (Squinabol 1903) BW04
    |--D. lipmanae BL79
    |--D. montisserei (Squinabol 1903) BW04
    |--D. olivosa BL79
    |--D. ornata BL79
    |--D. pseudomacrocephala BL79
    |--D. rhadina BL79
    |--D. somphedia BL79
    `--D. veneta K79

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[BW04] Babazadeh, S. A., & P. de Wever. 2004. Early Cretaceous radiolarian assemblages from radiolarites in the Sistan Suture (eastern Iran). Geodiversitas 26 (2): 185–206.

[BL79] Basov, V. A., B. G. Lopatin, I. S. Gramberg, A. I. Danjushevskaya, V. Ya. Kaban’kov, V. M. Lazurkin & D. K. Patrunov. 1979. Lower Cretaceous lithostratigraphy near Galicia Bank. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project 47: 683–717.

[K79] Kauffman, E. G. 1979. Cretaceous. In: Robison, R. A., & C. Teichert (eds) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology pt A. Introduction. Fossilisation (Taphonomy), Biogeography and Biostratigraphy pp. A418–A487. The Geological Society of America, Inc.: Boulder (Colorado), and The University of Kansas: Lawrence (Kansas).

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