Order Spumellaria

Family Phacodiscidae

Heliodiscus asteriscus Haeckel (Figure 15.78). Outer shell lenticular, with regularly arranged circular pores and ca. 8-15 radial spines on the equatorial plane; inner shell spherical. Diameter of cortical shell without spines: 120-200 µm. Ref: Nigrini and Moore (1979).

 

Sethodiscus macrococcus Haeckel (Figure 15.79). Very similar to H. asteriscus, but without radial spines. Diameter of cortical shell: ca. 150 µm. Ref: Haeckel (1887), Boltovskoy and Riedel (1980).