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Hystrichosphaeridium choanophorum

"Hystrichosphaeridium choanophorum" Deflandre and Cookson, 1955, p.271-272; text-figs.23-29.

EMENDATION: Harland and Hill, 1979, p.39,41, as Melitasphaeridium choanophorum.

TYPE: Holotype: Deflandre and Cookson, 1955, text-figs.23-26; Fensome et al., 1993a, figs.1-4 - p.1055.

HISTORY: NOW: Melitasphaeridium. Originally Hystrichosphaeridium, subsequently (and now) Melitasphaeridium.

SYNONYM(S): Taxonomic junior synonym: Melitasphaeridium aequabile, according to Harland, Head and Wrenn in Head and Wrenn (1992, p.10).

COMMENTS: This name was not validly published in Deflandre and Cookson (1954, p.1236), since these authors did not provide a description.

AGE: Pliocene.


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