Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index / Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII

by Ernst Haeckel

Habitat.—Fossil in Barbados.

3. Cantharospyris radicata, Haeckel.

Ceratospyris radicata, Ehrenberg, 1847, Monatsber. d. k. preuss. Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin, p. 43; Mikrogeol., 1854, Taf. xxii. fig. 37.

Haliomma radicatum, Ehrenberg, 1844, Monatsber. d. k. preuss. Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin, p. 83.

Petalospyris radicata, Haeckel, 1862, Monogr. d. Radiol., p. 295.

Petalospyris radicata, Stöhr, 1880, Palæontogr., vol xxvi. p. 79, Taf. iii. fig. 11.

Shell nut-shaped, smooth, with slight sagittal stricture and irregular roundish pores; two larger pores on each side of the ring. Basal plate with six pores (?). Six feet of equal size and similar form, conical, divergent, slightly curved, shorter than half the ring.

Dimensions.—Shell 0.05 long, 0.08 broad; feet 0.02 long.

Habitat.—Fossil in Barbados and Sicily.

4. Cantharospyris platybursa, n. sp. (Pl. [53], fig. 7).