An arrangement of three Triceratium condecorum from Calvert County, Maryland, USA. Prepared by William Allott Firth. Olympus BHB microscope using 450nm LED light. 63x Leitz Pl Apo 1.4 objective, oil immersion. Olympus Aplanat Achromat condenser, oil immersion, oblique lighting. 2.5x Nikon CF PL photoeyepiece. 11mm of the tube to the camera removed to increase the filed of view slightly. Monochrome converted Nikon d850 camera. 38 images stacked in Zerene (Pmax).
Triceratium condecorum Ehrenberg 1844. Published in: Ehrenberg, C.G. (1844). Untersuchungen über die kleinsten lebensformen im quellenlande des Euphrats und Araxes, so wie über eine an neuen formen sehr reiche marine tripelbildung von den Bermuda-Inseln. Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1844: 253-275, 1 pl. Page 272. This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Sheshukovia condecora (Ehrenberg) Glezer. Source of synonymy: Glezer, Z.I. (1984). Znachenie issledovanij po sistematike diatomovych vodoroslej dlia biostrtigrafii i paleogeographii [The importance of research about systematics of diatom algae for biostratigraphy and paleogeography]. Ezhegodnik Vsesoyuznogo Paleontologicheskogo Obshchestva 27: 284-298, 1 figure, 1 table [in Russian].