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Appendix A

Multiplicisphaeridium vestitum

"Multiplicisphaeridium? vestitum" (Deflandre, 1939a, p.189-190, pl.11, figs.4-6) Pocock, 1972, p.116.

EMENDATION: Sarjeant, 1960b, p.397, as Baltisphaeridium vestitum.

TYPE: Holotype: Deflandre, 1939a, pl.11, fig.5.

HISTORY: NOW: Surculosphaeridium?. Originally Hystrichosphaeridium, subsequently Baltisphaeridium (Appendix A), thirdly Surculosphaeridium, fourthly (and now) Surculosphaeridium?, fifthly Multiplicisphaeridium?, sixthly Systematophora. Questionable assignment: Pocock (1972, p.116).

SYNONYM(S): Taxonomic junior synonym: Polystephanosphaera valensii, according to Courtinat (1989, p.173) - however, Stancliffe and Sarjeant (1990, p.209) retained Polystephanosphaera (as and now Systematophora) valensii.

AGE: Jurassic (Oxfordian).


Infraspecific taxa:


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