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Current identification: Lipmanella insectum
Original Description
Shell with two distinct strictures. Length of the three joints = 1: 3: 2, breadth = 2: 4: 3. Cephalis hemispherical, with a slender pyramidal horn of twice the length. Thorax subspherical, in the upper half with three divergent lattice-wings of the same length, each of which represents a slender, fenestrated, three-sided pyramid. Abdomen subovate, with wide, truncate mouth (in the figured specimen broken off). Pores circular, small, of different sizes.
Size: Length of the three joints, a 0.025, b 0.055, c 0.04; breadth, a 0.035, b 0.08, c 0.06.
Editors' Notes
Now Lipmanella insectum
Stratigraphic information for LM21 from Riedel, 1959, p.287.[comment from RadWorld database]
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 year 1873-1876, Zoology. 18: 1-1803. gsReferences:
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Dictyoceras insectum compiled by the radiolaria@mikrotax project team viewed: 9-3-2021
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