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Carposphaera nodosa Haeckel, 1887

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Cortical shell thick walled, covered with forty to fiftyscattered pyramidal nodules, two and a half times as broad as the medullary shell, connected with it by very numerous thin radial beams. Outer and inner pores irregular roundish or polygonal, two to three times as broad as the bars. (This species in consequence of the cortical nodules may represent a peculiar genus, analogous to Conosphaera, called Anthomma.)
Dimesions:
Diameter of the outer shell 0.13, inner 0.05, inner and outer pores 0.008 to 0.012, bars 0.004.
Haeckel 1887


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