NAME Palambages morulosa
AGE Cretaceous.   AGE span: 145.5...65.5 mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Imperfecti, Dictyosporae.
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FIGURE REFERENCE Wetzel O. 1961. New microfossils from Baltic Cretaceous flintstones; Micropaleontology, v. 7, p. 337-350.
SPECIES, AUTHORITY P. morulosa Wetzel 1961, p. 338, pl. 1, fig. 11.
LOCATION Baltic Cretaceous flintstones.
ORIG DESCRIPTION* As for the genus [combined description]. Dimensions: assemblages about 80-120 µm; single cells 30-50 µm in diameter.
COMMENTS* These microfossils are identical with the objects recorded previously as "Morulosae" (Wetzel, 1933; p. 23-24, pl. 4, figs. 1-5). A detailed discussion of their possible systematic relations with extant microorganisms was given in that paper. From a purely morphologic point of view, they stand between the egg-balls of the planktonic crustaceans (e. g. those of Clausocalanus) and the coenobia of the alga Coelastrum. Perhaps these fossil forms may have been previously classified in the form-group Hystrichosphaeridea. In any case, to conform to correct taxonomic procedure, I have here assigned them Linnean nomenclature in place of the group "Morulosae" Wetzel 1933. There are, perhaps, other smaller species with fewer cells; an aberrant form, not precisely known, was reported earlier by the author (Wetzel, 1953, p. 41, pl. 2, fig. 11).

Derivatio nominis: Lat. morula = diminutive of morum, a mulberry.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Wetzel O. 1961. New microfossils from Baltic Cretaceous flintstones; Micropaleontology, v. 7, p. 337-350.
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ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Palambages morulosa
SERIAL NUMBER 1233
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.