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Discosphaera

Mon, 21/01/2008 - 15:39 — Jeremy Young
Citation: 
Discosphaera Haeckel 1894

Coccosphere: Monomorphic, non-motile.

Coccoliths: With large trumpet-like (salpingiform) spines. Coccolith bases are broadly elliptical, with normal rhabdosphaeraceae-type rim, radial and lamellar cycles. Spine circular in cross section, weakly attached to base above narrow pore in centre of the base, by organic (?) thread.

Remarks:  

Type species: D. thomsonii Ostenfeld 1899 (j. syn of D. tubifera).

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