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Appendix A

Xanthidium penicillatum

"Xanthidium penicillatum" Ehrenberg, 1843b, p.61 ex Ehrenberg, 1854, pl.37, fig.8.3.

TYPE: Holotype: Ehrenberg, 1854, pl.37, fig.8.3.

HISTORY: NOW: Systematophora penicillata. Originally Xanthidium penicillatum (Appendix A), subsequently Hystrichosphaera penicillata (combination not validly published), thirdly Hystrichosphaeridium penicillatum, fourthly Ovum hispidum subsp. penicillatum (combination not validly published), fifthly Hystrichosphaeridium? penicillatum, sixthly (and now) Systematophora penicillata.

SYNONYM(S): Taxonomic junior synonym: Systematophora fasciculigera, according to Sarjeant (1980a, p.282).

COMMENTS: This name was not validly published in Ehrenberg (1843b) since no description, diagnosis or illustration were provided.

AGE: Late Oxfordian.


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