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Lychnosphaera


Classification: rads_cenozoic -> Actinommidae -> Actinommidae inc sed -> Lychnosphaera
Sister taxa: << < Cromyatractus, Cromydruppocarpus, Cromyechinus, Cromyomma, Diploplegma, Drymosphaera, Drymyomma, Elatomma, Ellipsoxiphium, Gonosphaera, Heliaster, Heliosestilla, Hexacromyum, Hexalonche, Leptosphaera, Lychnosphaera, Pentactinosphaera, Rhizoplegma, Rhizosphaera, Sphaeropyle, Spongodictyon, Spongoplegma, Stauroxiphos, Stigmosphaera, Thecosphaerella, Xiphatractus
Daughter taxa (time control age-window is: 0-800Ma)
Lychnosphaera regina

neptune records:
Lychnosphaera sp.

neptune records:

Taxonomy

Citation: Lychnosphaera Haeckel 1881
Taxonomic rank: genus
Basionym: Lychnosphaera
Taxonomic discussion:

Catalog entries: Lychnosphaera

Original description: 3e. Tribus: Lychnosphaerida. Triosphaeria polyacantha (aculeis multis, octo aut pluribus plerumque sine ordine dispersis).
B. aculeis ramosis aut verticillatis.
BII. tribus globis non solum per radios sed etiam per ramulos ramorum commuicantibus.

Translated description: 3e. Tribe: Lychnosphaerida. Triosphaeria with many spines (with many, eight or more, spines, usually scattered without definite arrangement).
B. With the spines ramose or verticillate.
BII.- With the three spheres connected not only by radii but also by branched rods. (Translated from Latin by E.M.R. and W.R.R.)]

Description

Biogeography and Palaeobiology

Biostratigraphic distribution

Geological Range:
Last occurrence (top): Extant. Data source: Total of ranges of the species in this database
First occurrence (base): within Quaternary Period (0.00-2.59Ma, base in Gelasian stage). Data source: Total of ranges of species in this database

Plot of occurrence data:

References:

Haeckel, E. (1882a). Entwurf eines Radiolarien-Systems auf Grund von Studien der Challenger-Radiolarien [Basis for a radiolarian classification from the study of Radiolaria of the Challenger collection]. Jenaische Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft. 15: 418-472. gs O


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