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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Xiphostylus gallus Haeckel 1887

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Higher levels: rads_cat -> X -> Xiphostylus -> Xiphostylus gallus
Other pages this level: X. alauda, X. alca, X. alcedo, X. anhinga, X. ardea, X. cuculus, X. dendrocopus, X. edolius, X. emberiza, X. falco, X. gallus, X. minimus, X. motacilla, X. phasianus, X. picus, X. trochilus, X. trogon

Xiphostylus gallus

Citation: Xiphostylus gallus Haeckel 1887
taxonomic rank: species
Described on page(s) : p.128
Type repository: No information given
Family (traditional): Actinommidae
Family (modern): Xiphostylidae

Current identification:


Original Description

Pores regular, circular, five times as broad as the bars. Twelve to sixteen pores on the half equator. Surface smooth. Polar spines very unequal; the major conical spine one and a half to three times as long as the diameter of the sphere; the minor pommel-shaped, scarcely one-third as long (length of both spines very variable).

Diameter of the sphere 0.13, pores 0.01, bars 0.002; length of the major spine 0.2 to 0.4, of the minor 0 .05 to 0.08. [dimensions in mm]

Editors' Notes
There was no illustration of this species in Haeckel (1887)
Stratigraphic information for LM21 from Riedel, 1959, p.287.

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

Riedel, W. R. (1959a). Oligocene and Lower Miocene Radiolaria in tropical Pacific sediments. Micropaleontology. 5(3): 285-302. gs


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