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Hystrichosphaera mirabilis

"Hystrichosphaera mirabilis" Rossignol, 1964, p.86-87, pl.2, figs.1-3; pl.3, figs.4-5.

TYPE: Holotype: Rossignol, 1964, pl.2, figs.1-2.

HISTORY: NOW: Spiniferites. Originally Hystrichosphaera, subsequently (and now) Spiniferites.

MOTILE EQUIVALENT: Gonyaulax spinifera (Claparède and Lachmann, 1859) Diesing, 1866, according to Wall and Dale (1967, p.352; 1968c, p.270) and Dodge (1989, p.289).

COMMENTS: This name was not validly published in Rossignol (1962, p.131), since no illustration was given, and Rossignol (1963, p.207-208), since no holotype was designated.

AGE: Pleistocene.


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