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Hystrichosphaeridium hirsutum

"Hystrichosphaeridium hirsutum" (Ehrenberg, 1838, p.109-135, pl.1, fig.13) Deflandre, 1939a, p.78.

STATUS: Name not validly published: Ehrenberg (1838) did not intend to introduce a new species.

HISTORY: Originally Xanthidium hirsutum (name not validly published; Appendix A), subsequently Ovum hispidum subsp. hirsutum (name not validly published; Appendix A), thirdly Hystrichosphaera hirsuta (name not validly published), fourthly Hystrichosphaeridium hirsutum (name not validly published), fifthly Baltisphaeridium hirsutum (name not validly published; Appendix A), sixthly Operculodinium hirsutum (name not validly published), seventhly Operculodinium? hirsutum (name not validly published).

COMMENTS: See discussion under Operculodinium? hirsutum.

AGE: Late Cretaceous.


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