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Appendix A

Baltisphaeridium cristatum

"Baltisphaeridium cristatum" (Downie, 1958, p.338-339, pl.16, fig.4; text-fig.4f) Downie and Sarjeant, 1965, p.165.

TYPE: Holotype: Downie, 1958, pl.16, fig.4.

HISTORY: NOW: Cymatiogalea (Appendix A). Originally Hystrichosphaeridium, subsequently Baltisphaeridium, thirdly Priscogalea (Appendix A), fourthly (and now) Cymatiogalea (Appendix A).

SYNONYM(S): Taxonomic junior synonym: Cymatiogalea polygonomorpha Górka, 1967, an acritarch species, according to Rasul (1974, p.56).

JUNIOR HOMONYM: Baltisphaeridium cristatum Grishina in Grishina and Klenina, 1981, an acritarch species.

COMMENTS: This combination was not validly published in Eisenack (1958b, p.400), since that author did not fully reference the basionym.

AGE: Early Ordovician.


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