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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Spongotrochus echinodiscus Clark & Campbell 1942

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Higher levels: rads_cat -> S -> Spongotrochus -> Spongotrochus echinodiscus
Other pages this level: S. antarcticus, S. antoniae, S. arachnius, S. berciglii, S. brevispinus, S. craticulatus, S. echinodiscus, S. ehrenbergi, S. glacialis, S. heteracantha, S. kreyenhagensis kreyenhagensis, S. kreyenhagensis spinatus, S. longispinus, S. multispinus, S. parma, S. puter, S. scutella, S. vitabilis

Spongotrochus echinodiscus

Citation: Spongotrochus echinodiscus Clark & Campbell 1942
Taxonomic rank: species
Described on page(s) : p.48
Type specimens: pl.2, fig.3
Type repository: University of California, Museum of Paleontology, San Francisco
Family (traditional): Spongodiscidae
Family (modern): Stylodictyidae

Current identification:


Original Description

Shell circular, cakelike, with piercing spines around the disc and some on the broad face; spongy disc with about eight faint, concentric, annular rings of about equal breadth; peripheral region regularly spongy with no trace of annuli; pores relatively small, of several sizes scattered irregularly, the pores subcircular, framework with rather thick bars, dense; radial beams about sixteen piercing the edge, and a few scattered ones at about 0.25 of the diameter of the disc from the edge on the broad surface of the disc, all spines short, rodlike, cylindrical, tips blunt, bases not expanded, apparently without hooklets.

Size:
Diameter of disc, 266µm; of pores, 6.6-8.8µm.

Extra details from original publication
Distinguishing characters: Spongotrochus echinodiscus n. sp. has more concentric rings than S. scutella Haeckel (1887), and the radial spines are limited to the periphery of the broad face of the disc. There are fewer, shorter, radial spines than in S. parma Haeckel (1887).

Editors' Notes
[The authors here list this species under the subgeneric name Stylospongidium and include the subgeneric name in the species name.

References:

Clark, B. L. & Campbell, A. S. (1942a). Eocene radiolarian faunas from the Mt. Diablo area, California. Geological Society of America, Special Papers. 39: 1-112. gs


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