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TERTIARIUS HIDALGENSIS SP. NOV., A NEW DIATOM SPECIES FROM NEOGENE DEPOSITS IN CENTRAL MÉXICO

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Pages 23-33 | Received 01 Mar 2008, Accepted 01 Jun 2008, Published online: 31 Oct 2011
 

Abstract

Se describe una nueva especie que fue estudiada con microscopio de luz y con microscopio electrónico de barrido, encontrada en sedimentos lacustres del Plioceno provenientes del centro de Mé;xico: Tertiaraus hidalgensis (Bacilariophyta: Stephanodiscaceae). Esta especie tiene alvéolos simples y complejos, formados por bandas hialinas engrosadas, una rimoportula elevada localizada dentro de una de las cámaras alveolares, 4 a 10 fultoportulae en la cara valvar rodeadas por 2 o por 2 y 3 poros stelitales, fultoportulae en el manto con 2 poros satelitales, localizadas al extremo de los costae gruesos interiores, sobre la pared. T. hidalgensis es una especie aparentemente extinta, de importancia bioestratigráfica, que extiende la distributeón geográfica del genéro hacia latitudes tropicalas y es una nueva evidencia de la gran diversidad que alcanzaron las especies de agua dulce de la familia Stephanodiscaceae durante el Neogeno.

A new species, Tertiarius hidalgensis (Bacillariophyta: Stephanodiscaceae), studied with light (LM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM), is described from Pliocene sediments in central Mexico. This species possesses simple and complex alveolae formed by thickened hyaline strips, a single raised rimoportula located within one of the alveolar chambers, 4 to 10 valve face fultoportulae bounded by 2 or by 2 and 3 satellite pores, and mantle fultoportulae with 2 satellite pores positioned above thick internal costae on the surrounding wall. T. hidalgensis is apparently an extinct species of biostratigraphic significance; it extends the geographic distribution of this genus into tropical latitudes and gives further evidence of the great diversity that the freshwater Stephanodiscaceae reached during the Neogene.

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