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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Staurostylus graecus Haeckel 1887

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

Staurostylus graecus

Citation: Staurostylus graecus Haeckel 1887
Taxonomic rank: species
Described on page(s) : p.156
Type age (chronostrat): [presumably Quaternary though some forms reported from this station appear to be Tertiary]
Type locality: LM31
Type repository: No information given

Current identification:


Original Description

Shell thick walled, smooth, with regular, circular, hexagonally framed pores, twice as broad as the bars; six to eight on the quadrant. Spines three-sided prismatic, pointed, as broad as one mesh; two opposite larger spines as long as the diameter of the shell, two smaller only as long as the radius.

Size:
Diameter of the shell 0.15, pores 0.01, bars 0.005; length of the major spines 0.16, 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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