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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Coccodiscus lamarckii Haeckel 1887

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Coccodiscus lamarckii

Citation: Coccodiscus lamarckii Haeckel 1887
Taxonomic rank: species
Described on page(s) : p.461
Type specimens: pl.36, fig.1
Type repository: No information given
Family (traditional): Coccodiscidae
Family (modern): Coccodiscidae

Current identification:


Original Description

Phacoid shell (or lenticular porous cortical shell) very thick walled (as thick as one ring), three times as broad as the outer and seven times as broad as the inner medullary shell, surrounded by two to three chambered rings of equal breadth, each of which is divided by piercing radial beams into thirty-six to forty square chambers. Margin of the disk circular, smooth. Pores regular, circular, of equal size; ten on the radius of the phacoid shell, two on the breadth of each chamber.

Diameter of the disk (with two rings) 0.2, of the phacoid shell 0.14, outer medullary shell 0.05, inner 0.02. [dimensions in mm]

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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