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Genus Membranilarnax

Membranilarnax O. Wetzel, 1933b, p.51.

EMENDATION: Sarjeant, 1985b, p.149,151-152.

SYNONYM(S): Taxonomic junior synonym: Membranilarnacia, by implication in Downie and Sarjeant (1965, p.130) who questionably transferred the "type species" of Membranilarnax, Membranilarnax pterospermoides, to Membranilarnacia - however, Lentin and Williams (1973, p.93) retained Membranilarnacia.

COMMENTS: Stover and Evitt (1978, p.295) considered Membranilarnax to be an acritarch genus. Sarjeant (1985b, p.149,151-152) considered Membranilarnax to be a skolochorate dinoflagellate cyst. This name was not validly published in O. Wetzel (1932, p.136), since that author did not provide a description or designate a type, the latter being a requirement at that time under the I.C.Z.N.

TYPE: O. Wetzel, 1933b, pl.6, fig.2, as Membranilarnax pterospermoides.


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