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Appendix A

Cymatiosphaera pterophora

Cymatiosphaera pterophora (Deflandre and Courteville, 1939, p.102, pl.2, figs.4-5) Downie and Sarjeant, 1965, p.106.

TYPE: Holotype: Deflandre and Courteville, 1939, pl.2, figs.4-5.

HISTORY: Originally Hystrichosphaeridium, subsequently Cymatiosphaera, thirdly Oodnadattia, fourthly (and now) Dinopterygium.

COMMENTS: This combination was not validly published in Downie and Sarjeant (1963, p.92), since these authors did not fully reference the basionym.

AGE: Late Cretaceous.


Infraspecific taxa:


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