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What is a radiolarian?

What is a radiolarian? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of many marine amoeboid protozoa, of subclass Radiolaria, having filamentous pseudopodia; they have intricate silica skeletons.
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Calcareous oozes are common in the low and mid-latitudes while in other places, particularly the high latitudes, radiolarian oozes tend to dominate.
This contradiction cannot be resolved at present due to a lack of Cambrian radiolarian studies, which are needed to provide chronostratigraphic corroboration.
We unite here all these skeletonless radiolarian colonies into one single genus Collozoum, constituted in my Monograph.
Subsequently the massive sulfide deposit and surrounding metalliferous sediment apron were covered by oceanic radiolarian chert sediments.
This indicates that there existed a short period of radiolarian development before the great extinction at the Permian-Triassic transition.
A larger number of new forms has been found in the radiolarian ooze collected by the Challenger, and others fossil in Barbados.

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