Caridroit, De Wever, and Dumitrica (1999) promoted stauraxon (Radiolaria) to an order, order Latentifistularia, and De Wever et al. (2001) proposed a classification using family and genus levels. However, the taxonomy of this order in genus level is still problematic because some genera were named according to broken specimens. A radiolarian fauna with a high diversity was collected from the late Changxingian in southern Guanxi, China. These specimens are very well preserved so that they are rare material for roundly describing the characters of some genera. They are identified as 42 species belonging to 16 genera and 5 families. Fifteen new species and one new genus are described, some genera are discussed, and some species are revised.
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1 September 2006
TAXONOMY OF ORDER LATENTIFISTULARIA (RADIOLARIA) FROM THE LATEST PERMIAN IN SOUTHERN GUANGXI, CHINA
QINGLAI FENG,
HE WEIHONG,
SUXIN ZHANG,
GU SONGZHU
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Journal of Paleontology
Vol. 80 • No. 5
September 2006
Vol. 80 • No. 5
September 2006