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Appendix A

Daillydium quadridactylites

"*Daillydium quadridactylites" (Stockmans and Willière, 1962a, p.67-68, pl.1, fig.18; text-fig.29) Stockmans and Willière, 1969, p.33-35.

TYPE: Holotype: Stockmans and Willière, 1962a, pl.1, fig.18.

HISTORY: Originally Hystrichosphaeridium, subsequently Daillydium.

SYNONYM(S): Taxonomic senior synonym: Cymatiosphaera (now Daillydium) pentaster Staplin, 1961, a prasinophyte species, according to Playford in Playford and Dring (1981, p.17-18). Taxonomic senior synonym: Cymatiosphaera tetraster Staplin, 1961, a prasinophyte species, according to Górka (1974, p.134), which is now considered a taxonomic junior synonym of Cymatiosphaera (now Daillydium) pentaster.

COMMENTS: The nomenclatural type of the genus Daillydium remains the holotype of Daillydium quadridactylites.

AGE: Devonian (Frasnian).


Infraspecific taxa:


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