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Dapsilidinium fucosum

Dapsilidinium? fucosum (Valensi, 1955a, p.40; text-fig.2b) Lentin and Williams, 1981, p.69.

TYPE: Holotype: Valensi, 1955a, text-fig.2b.

HISTORY: Originally Micrhystridium (Appendix A), subsequently Hystrichosphaeridium, thirdly Polysphaeridium?, fourthly (and now) Dapsilidinium?. Questionable assignment: Lentin and Williams (1981, p.69).

SYNONYM(S): Taxonomic junior synonyms (at specific rank): Hystrichosphaeridium tubiferum var. brevispinum and Hystrichosphaeridium (as Litosphaeridium) arundum, both according to Below (1982c, p.29) - however, Lentin and Williams (1985, p.190,227) retained Hystrichosphaeridium tubiferum subsp. brevispinum and Litosphaeridium arundum.

AGE: Late Cretaceous.


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