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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Coccodiscus goethei Haeckel 1887

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Higher levels: rads_cat -> C -> Coccodiscus -> Coccodiscus goethei
Other pages this level: C. darwinii, C. goethei, C. lamarckii

Coccodiscus goethei

Citation: Coccodiscus goethei Haeckel 1887
Taxonomic rank: species
Described on page(s) : p.461
Type specimens: pl.36, fig.2
Type age (chronostrat): [presumably Quaternary though some forms reported from this station appear to be Tertiary]
Type locality: LM49
Type repository: No information given

Current identification:


Original Description

Phacoid shell two and a half times as broad as the outer and five times as broad as the inner medullary shell, surrounded by three to seven chambered rings of equal breadth, each of which is divided by piercing radial beams into sixty to eighty chambers. Margin of the disk thorny. Pores regular, circular; eight on the radius of the phacoid shell, a single one on the breadth of each chamber.

Size:
Diameter of the disk (with seven rings) 0.25, of the phacoid shell 0.1, of the medullary shell 0.04, inner 0.02.

Editors' Notes
errata (p.1763) delete \H" from specific name"[comment from RadWorld database]

References:

Haeckel, E (1887). Report on the Radiolaria collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. 18: 1-1803. gs O


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