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Batiacasphaera minuta

Batiacasphaera minuta (Matsuoka, 1983b, p.127, pl.5, fig.6; pl.6, fig.7) Matsuoka and Head, 1992, p.167.

EMENDATION: Matsuoka and Head, 1992, p.167, as Batiacasphaera minuta.

TYPE: Holotype: Matsuoka, 1983b, pl.6, fig.7; Matsuoka and Head, 1992, pl.1, figs.1-11; text-figs.1A-C.

HISTORY: Originally Tectatodinium, subsequently (and now) Batiacasphaera.

COMMENTS: Head in Head and Wrenn (1992, p.3) considered this species to be a possible taxonomic junior synonym of Batiacasphaea micropapillata.

AGE: late Early-early Mid Miocene.


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