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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Stylosphaera testudo Ehrenberg 1873

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Stylosphaera testudo

Citation: Stylosphaera testudo Ehrenberg 1873
Taxonomic rank: species
Described on page(s) : p.320
Type age (chronostrat): [presumably Quaternary]
Type locality: LM101; LM489
Type repository: Ehrenberg's collection, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Repository city: Berlin

Current identification: Amphisphaera testudo


Translation:
[Short, broadly fusiform, with 2 opposite longitudinal spines; large pores not in rows or contiguous; margin uneven. Spines unequal. Nucleus not visible. Length without spines 125 µ, maximum breadth 84 µ, length of spine from the middle 90 µ, pores approximately 14 µ broad. (Translated from Latin by E.M.R. and W.R.R.)]

References:

Ehrenberg, C. G. (1873b). Mikrogeologische Studien als Zusammenfassung seiner Beobachtungen des kleinsten Lebens der Meeres-Tiefgründe aller Zonen und dessen geologischen Einfluss. Monatsberichte der Koniglichen Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1872: 265-322. gs

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