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Aiora
From Williams et al., 2017:
[Aiora, Cookson and Eisenack, 1960a, p. 9
Type species: originally as Cannosphaeropsis fenestrata, Deflandre and Cookson, 1955 (pl.3, fig.2)] ; Aiora fenestrata, Cookson and Eisenack, 1960
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Original description: [Cookson and Eisenack, 1960]:
Description: Shell spherical, near the equator bearing a whorl of from five to approximately ten solid, radiating, branched processes which unite distally to form a continuous narrow and flat perforate expansion of uneven width. The resultant "float"is in shape of a flat cone.
Affinities:
The genus Aiora is distinct from the genus Cannosphaeropsis O. Wetzel, which it superficially resembles, in that the shell is not enclosed in an external network.
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Modified description:
Stover and Evitt, 1978, p. 225:
Description: Shell apparently ellipsoidal; membrane thin, smooth, with a number of solid processes that are distally united with one another; localized portions of the transverse trabeculae are thin; strongly flattened and perforated by rounded openings of variable size.
[Aiora, Cookson and Eisenack, 1960a, p. 9
Type species: originally as Cannosphaeropsis fenestrata, Deflandre and Cookson, 1955 (pl.3, fig.2)] ; Aiora fenestrata, Cookson and Eisenack, 1960
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Original description: [Cookson and Eisenack, 1960]:
Description: Shell spherical, near the equator bearing a whorl of from five to approximately ten solid, radiating, branched processes which unite distally to form a continuous narrow and flat perforate expansion of uneven width. The resultant "float"is in shape of a flat cone.
Affinities:
The genus Aiora is distinct from the genus Cannosphaeropsis O. Wetzel, which it superficially resembles, in that the shell is not enclosed in an external network.
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Modified description:
Stover and Evitt, 1978, p. 225:
Description: Shell apparently ellipsoidal; membrane thin, smooth, with a number of solid processes that are distally united with one another; localized portions of the transverse trabeculae are thin; strongly flattened and perforated by rounded openings of variable size.