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Appendix A

Geodia tripunctata

"Geodia? tripunctata" Merrill, 1895, p.16; text-fig.15.

TYPE: Holotype: Merrill, 1895, text-fig.15.

HISTORY: Questionable assignment: Merrill (1895, p.16).

SYNONYM(S): Taxonomic senior synonym: Xanthidium (now Spiniferites) ramosum, by implication in Sarjeant (1964a, p.175), who considered Geodia? tripunctata to be a taxonomic junior synonym of Xanthidium (as Hystrichosphaera) furcatum, which is now a taxonomic junior synonym of Spiniferites ramosus.

AGE: Early Cretaceous.


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