"Hystrichosphaera xanthiopyxides" O. Wetzel, 1933b, p.44-45, pl.4, fig.25.
EMENDATIONS: Morgenroth, 1968, p.556, as Hystrichosphaeridium? xanthiopyxides; Sarjeant, 1985b, p.142-144, as Tanyosphaeridium xanthiopyxides. TYPE: Holotype: O. Wetzel, 1933b, pl.4, fig.25; Morgenroth, 1968, pl.48, fig.5; Sarjeant, 1985b, pl.3, figs.2-3. STATUS: Name not validly published: generic name not validly published until 1937. HISTORY: NOW: Tanyosphaeridium. Originally Hystrichosphaera (name not validly published), subsequently Hystrichosphaeridium, thirdly Hystrichosphaeridium?, fourthly Baltisphaeridium (Appendix A), fifthly Prolixosphaeridium?, sixthly (and now) Tanyosphaeridium. SYNONYM(S): Taxonomic junior synonym: Hystrichosphaeridium (as Tanyosphaeridium) magdalium, according to Stover and Evitt (1978, p.85). AGE: Late Cretaceous (?Maastrichtian, according to Sarjeant, 1985b, p.143).
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