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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Conosphaera orthoconus Haeckel 1887

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Higher levels: rads_cat -> C -> Conosphaera -> Conosphaera orthoconus
Other pages this level: C. clivosa, C. collinus, C. comicus, C. lamellispina, C. orthoconus, C. plagioconus, C. platyconus, C. stilloformis

Conosphaera orthoconus

Citation: Conosphaera orthoconus Haeckel 1887
Taxonomic rank: species
Described on page(s) : p.221
Type specimens: pl.12, fig.2
Type age (chronostrat): [presumably Quaternary though some forms reported from this station appear to be Tertiary]
Type locality: LM25
Type repository: No information given

Current identification/main database link: Collosphaera orthoconus (Haeckel) Bjoerklund&Goll 1979


Original Description

Pores of the shell irregular, roundish, twice to three times as broad as the bars; fourteen to sixteen on the radius. Conical spines about forty, regular, higher than they are broad, as long as the radius, with sixteen to twenty pores in the wall.

Size:
Diameter of the shell 0.2, pores 0.008 to 0.012, bars 0.004; length of the spines 0.05, basal breadth 0.03.

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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Conosphaera orthoconus compiled by the radiolaria@mikrotax project team viewed: 19-6-2025

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