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HAVING described the Eozöon sufficiently to enable the reader to follow its comparison with foraminifera, Prof. Moebius proceeds to the description of the least four or five spines radiate, all of which are situated structure of these animals. Fig. 12 represents a longitudinal section of Tinoporus baculatus, magnified 150 times. This foraminiferal species occurs very frequently upon the coral reefs of the Samoan Islands in the Pacific. Its shell consists of a bi-convex middle part, from which at in the principal plane of the body of the shell. At C two shells of Tinoporus are drawn, magnified three times.
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Prof. Moebius on the Eozöon Question 1 . Nature 20, 297–301 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020297a0
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