Article: A new excystment mechanism in the Silurian acritarch Diexallophasis of Virginia
Publication: Palaeontology
Volume:
21
Part:
4
Publication Date:
November
1978
Page(s):
869
–
872
Author(s):
Ann Brooke Reaugh
Abstract
Diexallophasis denticulata (Stockmans and Williere) Loeblich, 1970 excysted through an ornamented circumferential break in the central body wall. This is the first report of a patterned opening among acritarchs which have previously been reported to open by simple rupture or cryptosuture.