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VI.—On Some of the Massive Forms of Chætetes, from the Lower Silurian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

H. Alleyne Nicholson
Affiliation:
Professor of Biology in the College of Physical Science, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

Extract

The typical forms of Chœtetes petropolitanus, Pander, are free in habit, and are invariably furnished with a flattened or concave base, which is covered with a thin concentrically-wrinkled epitheca. The general shape of the corallum is typically a cone or hemisphere when full-grown, and a concavo-convex disc when young; but its adult form is liable to great variations; and even the young examples are not constant, being sometimes plano-convex, or slightly bi-convex. The calices are exclusively carried upon the upper surface of the mass, and are thin-walled, polygonal in shape, and destitute of intermediate tubuli. Very often the surface exhibits minute tubercles, carrying corallites of a slightly larger size than the average; but this phenomenon does not appear to be constant. Young examples may have a diameter at their base of four or five lines, and a height of three lines; adult specimens may have a long diameter of four inches or more at the base, and a height of an inch and a half; but the majority of individuals exhibit dimensions intermediate between these measurements.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1875

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