radiolarian

A copy of Haeckel's illustration for this radiolarian appears in the article on regular polyhedra.

On the table was a glass model that Elizabeth assumed represented some intricate protist organism such as a marine radiolarian.

Younger radiolarites are not known - probably because younger radiolarian oozes didn't have sufficient time to consolidate.

However it has also been classified as an unusual radiolarian, and this has gained support from genetic studies, which place it near the Acantharea.

We might have entered the interior of a vast radiolarian, one of the silicate-skeletoned microscopic sea creatures of Earth's oceans.

When visible to the naked eye, it can be a small test (shell) of a microfossil (radiolarian or foraminifer), a phosphatized shark tooth, basalt debris or even fragments of earlier nodules.

"Supplementary Notes on the Cornish Radiolarian Cherts and Devonian Fossils" Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Vol.12, Part 4, 1899.

"Perhaps this wasn't such a good idea," Olmy said, escorting her to where the Frant was engaged in conversation with two neomorphs, one a radiolarian, the other recognizable as the Director of the Nexus, Hulane Ram Seija.