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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Coccocyclia heliantha Haeckel 1887

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Coccocyclia heliantha

Citation: Coccocyclia heliantha Haeckel 1887
Taxonomic rank: species
Described on page(s) : p.468
Type specimens: pl.36, figs.5,6
Type repository: No information given
Family (traditional): Coccodiscidae
Family (modern): Coccodiscidae

Current identification:


Original Description

Phacoid shell two and a half times as broad as the outer and six times as broad as the inner medullary shell, surrounded by six to eight rings of nearly equal breadth, the outer somewhat smaller. They are divided by fifty to sixty piercing radial beams into irregular ,chambers. Pores irregular, roundish; ten on the radius of thc phacoid shell, a single one on each chamber of the equatorial girdle. Margin of the disk with numerous strong conical radial spines of different breadths, arranged in several circles, the strongest in the equatorial plane, about as broad as one ring and twice as long. Surface thorny.

Diameter of the disk (with seven rings) 0.3, of the phacoid shell 0.12, of the outer medullary shell 0.05, of the inner 0.02. [dimensions in mm]

Editors' Notes
For Coccocylia read Coccocyclia.
For helianthus read heliantha

Stratigraphic information for LM21 from Riedel, 1969, 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


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