Multisphaera Nazarov & Afanasieva, 2000

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Multisphaera Nazarov & Afanasieva in Afanasieva, 2000 sensu Dumitrica (2011)

Multisphaera Nazarov & Afanasieva in Afanasieva, 2000c: 75. — Dumitrica 2011: 208.

TYPE SPECIES. — Multisphaera impersepta Nazarov & Afanasieva in Afanasieva, 2000 (Nazarov & Afanasieva in Afanasieva 2000c: 75, pl. 81, fig. 7-10).

AGE AND LOCATION OF TYPE MATERIAL. — Permian, Urals, Russia.

TAXON CODE. — 164.

STATUS. — Valid.

DIAGNOSIS. — “Раковина сферическая с четырьмя пористыми оболочками. Внутренний каркас представлен, по-видимому, многолучевой спикулой, продолжением лучей которой являются многочисленные (более 24) трехгранные основные иглы”. (Nazarov & Afanasieva in Afanasieva 2000c: 75).

DIAGNOSIS (English translation by P. Dumitrica). — “Test spherical with four porous shells. Innermost skeleton represented, it seems, by a multirayed spicule, whose prolongations result in numerous (more than 24) three-bladed main spines.”

EMENDED DIAGNOSIS. — “Large spherical latticed test originating from an eccentric four-rayed spicule and consisting of a double “medullary shell”, a single cortical shell, and one or two intermediary shells. Spicule with a very short, almost invisible median bar and four spines in tetrahedral position. Inside the microsphere rays of the spicule are thick and rod-shaped, while they are three-bladed outside of it. Shells concentric and interconnected by the four primary spines and by a large number of secondary spines originating from the first and especially in the second medullary shell.” ( Dumitrica 2011: 208).