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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Staurostylus germanicus Haeckel 1887

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Other pages this level: S. germanicus, S. graecus, S. latinus

Staurostylus germanicus

Citation: Staurostylus germanicus Haeckel 1887
Taxonomic rank: species
Described on page(s) : p.157
Type age (chronostrat): [presumably Quaternary though some forms reported from this station appear to be Tertiary]
Type locality: LM12
Type repository: No information given

Current identification:


Original Description

Shell thick walled, covered with bristle-shaped by-spines, half as long as the radius. Pores regular; circular, hexagonally framed, twice as broad as the bars; eight to ten on the quadrant. From each hexagon-corner arises one short by-spine. Four main spines three-sided pyramidal, as broad at the base as one mesh; two opposite larger spines one and a half times as long, as the radius, two smaller two-thirds as long.

Size:
Diameter of the shell 0.16, pores 0.008, bars 0.004; length of the major spines 0.12, minor 0.08.

Editors' Notes
There was no illustration of this species in Haeckel (1887)

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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Staurostylus germanicus compiled by the radiolaria@mikrotax project team viewed: 23-6-2025

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