An arrangement of five Triceratium elegans from Palos Verdes, California. Fossil marine material. W.D.F. 340. Sty.Arc (Styrax Aroclor) mountant and dated October 1968. Prepared by ECP Bone. Olympus BHB microscope using 450nm LED light. 20x Nikon Plan Apo NA 0.65 objective. Olympus Aplanat Achromat condenser, slightly oblique lighting. 2.5x Nikon CF PL photoeyepiece. Monochrome converted Nikon d850 camera. 36 images stacked in Zerene (Pmax).
Triceratium elegans (Greville) Grunow, nom. illeg. 1883. Published in: Van Heurck, H. (1882). Synopsis des Diatomées de Belgique. Atlas. pp. pls LXXVIII-CXXXII [78-132 and supplementary pls 22 bis, 82bis, 83bis, 83ter, 95bis], tables genres. Anvers: Ducaju et Cie. Plate 109, Figure 1. This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Amphitetras elegans Greville.