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[[File:Fig.41a.png|thumb|<font size="2"> '''Fig. 1.''' Embryonic apparatus. '''A:''' ''Discocyclina'', stereograph after Ferràndez  (1999), modified. Schema, not to scale; '''achl:''' auxilliary chamberlet; '''ast:''' annular stolon; '''ecr:''' equatorial crest; '''il:''' inner lamella; '''lchl:''' lateral chamberlet;'''ost:''' oblique stolon; '''ost(d):''' oblique stolon of deuteroconch; '''p:''' pore; '''pap:''' papilla; peri: periembryonal chamberlets; '''rst:''' radial stolon; '''rst(d):''' radial stolon of deuteroconch; deuteroconch);(from Hottinger, 1977); (Hottinger, 2006; fig. 5 [http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/CG2006_M02/index.html] '''CC'''/BY-NC-SA)]]

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==Definition==
*''according to Hottinger (2006):''
'''EMBRYO''' - (embryon, embryonic apparatus); the group of chambers including [[protoconch]] and [[deuteroconch]] (nucleoconch), and in some genera a [[flexostyle]], that differs in size, shape and arrangement from subsequent chambers.






==See also==
*[[deuteroconch]]
*[[flexostyle]]
*[[protoconch]]
==References==
Ferràndez I Cañadell (1999), Morfoestructura i paleobiologia dels Ortofragmínidos de la Mesogea (Discocyclinidae i Orbitocyclinidae, Foraminifera), Arxius de les Seccions de Ciències, Barcelona, (Secció de Ciències i Tecnologia), CXXI, 339 p.

Hottinger (2006), [http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/CG2006_M02/index.html Illustrated glossary of terms used in foraminiferal research]. [http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/uk-index.html Carnets de Géologie], [http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/CG2006_M02/index.html Memoir 2], ISSN 1634-0744               
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