Praedeflandrella Kozur & Mostler, 1989

Noble, Paula, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Danelian, Taniel, Dumitrica, Paulian, Maletz, Jörg, Suzuki, Noritoshi, Cuvelier, Jessie, Caridroit, Martial & O’Dogherty, Luis, 2017, Taxonomy of Paleozoic radiolarian genera, Geodiversitas 39 (3), pp. 419-502 : 460

Praedeflandrella Kozur & Mostler, 1989

Praedeflandrella Kozur & Mostler, 1989: 211 .

TYPE SPECIES. — Latentifistula neotenica Nazarov & Ormiston, 1985 ( Nazarov & Ormiston 1985: 33, pl. 3, fig. 11, text-fig. 8).

AGE AND LOCATION OF TYPE MATERIAL. — Artinskian (Lower Permian), Don village, Ural River, Southern Urals, Russia.

TAXON CODE. — 175.

STATUS. — Valid.

DIAGNOSIS. — “Mit den Familienmerkmalen. Arme sehr schlank. Zentralfeld und proximaler Abschnitt der Arme unperforiert, sonst meist perforiert, selten unperforiert. Keine Kammerung der Arme durch Querwände.” ( Kozur & Mostler 1989: 211).

DIAGNOSIS (English translation by J. P. Caulet – RadWorld database). — “With the characteristics of the family [ Deflandrellidae De Wever & Caridroit, 1984 , renamed Cauletellidae by Caridroit et al. (1999: 606)]. Arms very slender. Central area and proximal parts of the arms imperforate, other parts often perforate, rarely imperforate. No transversal walls in arms.”

REMARKS

Nestell & Nestell (2010: 38) consider this a separate genus from Shangella Feng in Feng, He, Zhang & Gu, 2006, and we maintain it as a valid genus based on their arguments.