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Galea galea

"*Galea galea" Maier, 1959, p.306, pl.29, fig.4; text-fig.2.

EMENDATION: Sarjeant, 1983, p.110, as Chiropteridium galea.

TYPE: Holotype: Maier, 1959, pl.29, fig.4; Eisenack and Kjellström, 1975b, p.88a; Fensome et al., 1995, fig.1 - p.1495.

HISTORY: NOW: Chiropteridium. Originally Galea (generic name illegitimate), subsequently Baltisphaeridium (Appendix A), thirdly Areoligera, fourthly Areoligera?, fifthly (and now) Chiropteridium.

SYNONYM(S): Taxonomic junior synonyms: Chiropteridium dispersum, Galea mespilanum and Galea levis, all according to Sarjeant (1983, p.108-109); Membranophoridium multispinatum, according to Brosius (1963, p.48); Membranophoridium (al. Chiropteridium) partispinatum, by implication in Matsuoka and Bujak (1988, p.40), who considered Chiropteridium mespilanum to be the correct name.

COMMENTS: Following I.C.B.N. Article 55.1, the species name Galea galea is validly published even though the generic name Galea is illegitimate.

ETYMOLOGY: N.I.A.

AGE: Oligocene.


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