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Appendix A

Diacrocanthidium echinulatum

*Diacrocanthidium echinulatum (Deflandre, 1937b, p.55, pl.11 [al. pl.8], fig.9) Loeblich Jr. and Loeblich III, 1970b, p.200.

TYPE: Holotype: Deflandre, 1937b, pl.11 (al. pl.8), fig.9, lost according to Deflandre and Foucher (1967, p.4). Neotype: Deflandre and Foucher, 1967, pl.1, fig.6, designated by Deflandre and Foucher (1967, p.4).

HISTORY: Originally Palaeostomocystis (Appendix A), subsequently Acanthodiacrodium (combination not validly published, Appendix A), thirdly (and now) Diacrocanthidium.

SYNONYM(S): Taxonomic junior synonym: Cleistosphaeridium parvum, according to Bujak in Bujak et al. (1980, p.52).

COMMENTS: This combination was not validly published in Deflandre and Foucher (1967, p.4), since these authors did not fully reference the basionym.

AGE: Late Cretaceous.


Infraspecific taxa:


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