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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Stylosphaera urania Haeckel 1887

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Higher levels: rads_cat -> S -> Stylosphaera -> Stylosphaera urania
Other pages this level: << < S. minor minor, S. musa, S. nana, S. polyhymnia, S. radiosa, S. raripora, S. setosa, S. simplex, S. spinulosa, S. sulcata, S. terpsichore, S. testudo, S. thalia, S. trixyphophora, S. undulata, S. urania

Stylosphaera urania

Citation: Stylosphaera urania Haeckel 1887
Taxonomic rank: species
Described on page(s) : p.134
Type age (chronostrat): [presumably Quaternary though some forms reported from this station appear to be Tertiary]
Type locality: LM34
Type repository: No information given

Current identification:


Original Description

Radial proportion of the two shells = 4: 1. Cortical shell thin walled, smooth; pores regular, circular, hexagonally framed, twice as broad as the bars; ten on the half equator. Polar spines conical, as long as the radius of the outer shell.

Size:
Diameter of the cortical shell 0.24, pores 0.012, bars 0 ;006; medullary shell 0.06; length of the polar spines 0.12, basal breadth 0.024.

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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